The Materiality of Architecture

Picon, Antoine

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“…Mainly due to its widespread accessibility and variety of applications it offers, the virtual environment has challenged the analogue forms of production for creating and visualizing new structures and projects before they are materialized. As Antoine Picon (2003) notes, "an architectural project is indeed a virtual object. It is all the more virtual that it anticipates not a single built realization but an entire range of them.…”

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“…(…) Whereas the architect used to manipulate static forms, he can now play with geometric flows. Surface and volumes topological deformations acquire a kind of evidence that traditional means of representation did not allow [8]." In effect, in most cases VR is now the preferred form of expression for its easiness, level of control and raise of possibilities during the design process.…”

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Extending the Virtual Environment Into the Physical Space: A Reversal of the Digital/Physical Analogy Into Spatial Perception

Tsikalis¹,

Zavoleas²

2023

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Despite its apparent lack of physicality, the virtual environment produces real experiences to its users. In its intangible context of digital operation, the virtual setting can be a meeting point for individuals to interact and to gain experiences that have an impact upon their lives. After more than three decades of broad accessibility and use of the internet and various digital platforms, the virtual experience has also prompted to rethink many of the assumptions commonly attributed to physical space. From a practical point, the virtual world has been an extension of the real one as a new site that can host people’s activities without many of the limitations associated with the material world. Given its absence of physical restrictions, the virtual space appears as a boundless one, whose potential of evolution is still unclear. This sense of limitedness has caused to shift our common sense about physical space as well, including architectural perception and the methods and practices applied to design it. In response, this present study focuses on the ways in which elements and concepts of the virtual world may be transferred to physical space and enrich architectural aims and the broader design discourse.

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Section: Types Of Virtuality and Ways Of Interacting With Artificial ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Extending the Virtual Environment Into the Physical Space: A Reversal of the Digital/Physical Analogy Into Spatial Perception

Tsikalis¹,

Zavoleas²

2023

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“…The entire paradox of the architectural discipline consists in its desire to render matter expressive to human beings. Thus, material intelligence would be a new way for architects to control material resources and reinforce the fundamentally humanistic nature of architectural endeavor with an increasing sense of design freedom and a release from material constraint in the digital era (Picon, 2021).…”

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“…In the era of weak artificial intelligence development, human-machine collaboration becomes the most remarkable focus. However, artificial-intelligence-augmented design would have a profound embodiment on the materiality in architecture which may reshape the new authorship (Picon, 2021). Computational design thinking exists in the metaverse and has a profound impact on our physical world (Leach & Yuan, 2019).…”

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Yuan

2022

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“…An interstitial district with programmatic hybridity could take advantage of building material resilience for improved logistics management against freight 'accidents' (Gregson et al, 2017), while also mitigating the climate risks that port cities increasingly face. Building on materiality and continuous surface research in architecture (Picon, 2020), and that of urban surface programming (Wall, 1999), the article suggests materiality as a renewed field of port city research for logistics and resilience.…”

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Materiality in the Seam Space: Sketches for a Transitional Port City Dome District

Ramos

2021

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Biomass material volatility generates new opportunities for port-city relationships. Alternative energy markets require specialized port facilities to handle new bulk commodities like biomass. Wood pellets, a type of biomass, present warehousing challenges due to combustion danger. The industrial response to this risk has generated new storage forms for port regions. The return to bulk cargo reintroduces materiality as a focus for port city research, which had generally been regarded as a peripheral concern since the advent of the shipping container. The container had come to represent a borderless, ‘fast capitalism’ throughput model, but research on port ‘accidents’ has complicated this reductive globalization narrative. The programmatic dynamism of wood pellet dome structures suggests new spatially-porous possibilities for an interstitial border space at the port-city interface with material commonalities and hybrid potentials for resilient logistics and civic facilities. In contrast to container cargo unitization, the dome signifies the standardization of the coastal/riparian port environment. Dome structures can help ports plan for the complex challenges of cargo material behaviors and increasing extreme weather events. The article begins with wood pellet materiality to then explore programmatic possibilities that industrial construction technology generates. Conceptually, this joins the proposal of port as ‘seam space’ with port-city resilience planning and the porosity celebrated in recent urbanism literature. Scaling up from wood pellet materiality to an interstitial port-city district, the article contributes to calls for increased attention to materiality as a means to envision new urban agendas.

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The Materiality of Architecture

Cited by 23 publications

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Extending the Virtual Environment Into the Physical Space: A Reversal of the Digital/Physical Analogy Into Spatial Perception

Extending the Virtual Environment Into the Physical Space: A Reversal of the Digital/Physical Analogy Into Spatial Perception

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Materiality in the Seam Space: Sketches for a Transitional Port City Dome District

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