Complexity management and mutability in architectural form conception: form-blindness and softform

Download

index.pdf

Date

2015

Author

Kızılcan, Egemen Berker

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

317
views

137
downloads

Expressions in architecture, as modes of conveying information, have the power to shape perception and thinking, as well as architectural production. Architectural conception is today induced by custom information models with the advent of technologies and methodologies associated with the computational paradigm and therefore are capable of inhabiting complex orders that arise from a multiplicity of concerns. Architecture is no longer constituted by the fixity of a single instance of form, instead possibility spaces which represent the mutability of form and which extend the solution set are being privileged for exploring the qualitative aspects or testing outcomes of design approaches. Architecture’s relation with aspects of information, complexity, multiplicity and changeability in design conceptualization requires expressions that are efficient in providing for such aspects, besides establishing the dialogue between conceptualization and information. The thesis provides a discussion of the multi-faceted issues regarding the expression of design intention and thinking in the context of computational design, exploring dualities between visual and relational reasoning as well as between conceptual and perceptual structures of expression. The study presents challenges in terms of the computational architectural design paradigm regarding the management of complexity and form mutability, and to this end, develops two concepts/approaches/qualities, form-blindness and softform, that are exhibited in current architectural expressions and thinking. Form-blindness denotes a controlled level of specificity about form and the postponement of its fixation in a certain implementation, while ensuring complexity management and multiplicity. Softform, on the other hand, infers encapsulations of mutable forms that can incarnate multiple instances, to enable exploration and multiplicity in design.

Subject Keywords

Architecture., Architectural design., Space (Architecture)., Architecture

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12619094/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24842

Collections

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Analysis of the limits of representation of architectural photographic images in periodicals Bakht, Nazlı; Güzer, Celal Abdi; Department of Architecture (2007) This study aims to analyze the limits of representation of architectural photographic images in periodicals within architectural media that shape today’s architectural production. This aim is accomplished in three sections; “examining the power of image in architecture”; “examining architectural media” and “examining the periodicals’ attitudes towards using architectural photography”. A case study is done to uncover the relationship between the photograph and the medium that it takes place on and determine ...
Authentication of space: the photograph as a raw material for architectural production Koca, Aslı; Savaş Sargın, Ayşen; Department of Architecture (2009) This thesis is a critical reconsideration of the relationship of architectural production with its unique mode of representation: “photography.” Photography has been interpreted essentially as a technique and a visual medium to document architecture in general. The “photograph,” in this sense, is regarded as a representational form of documentation and an artistic and material expression of architecture. Besides this conventional value, this study argues that photography not only provides a new medium for t...
Digital architecture as the extension of physical spaces : asymtote's New York Stock Exchange virtual reality environment Ayoğlu, Halil; Yalınay, Şebnem; Department of Architecture (2005) The aim of this thesis is to develop an understanding of digital architecture as an extension to the physical spaces. The thesis claims that Virtual Reality Environments (VREs) coexist, supplement, support and extend the physical environments. VREs enable the users to deal with manipulable, multi-dimensional, interactive digital environment. Asymptote2s New York Stock Exchange Three-Dimensional Trading Floor (NYSE 3DTF) VRE is a significant example to analyze digital architecture in this perspective. The 3D...
Diagrammatic potency of the "nine square grid" in architectural design Kalfazade, Nihat; Gür, Berin Fatma; Department of Architecture (2004) The aim of this thesis is to search for the diagrammatic potency of the أnine square gridؤ (9SG) in architectural design. The thesis refers to the diagram as a tool for bringing order to the essential elements of architecture (i.e. program, structure and context). It highlights the potential relationships among these elements. In this study, the 9SG is approached as a diagram that has the potential to generate different spatial relations. The thesis investigates different uses of the 9SG in reference to the...
Understanding façade between design and manufacturing : a case study on high-rise office buildings in İstanbul Şener, Duygu; Güzer, Celal Abdi; Department of Architecture (2006) The thesis aims to examine how the formation of façades, that is, the interface with a dual response both to interior functioning and exterior urban fabric, is separated from the totality of architectural design by new technological developments and design intentions. This aim is accomplished in three sections, respectively: “analysis of the façade, the properties and formation process in time”; “examining the façade formation of the high-rise office buildings in Levent-Maslak area in respect to the analysi...

Citation Formats

E. B. Kızılcan, “Complexity management and mutability in architectural form conception: form-blindness and softform,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2015.