Advanced architecture concepts – Relational logics

Introduction:

The aim was to turn on the relational logics that are given between the advanced architecture and the environment. To make this relation explicit, we focused on the perceptive phenomena originated among the domestic spaces and elements annexed to these.

Indeed, the relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have been established since remote times. However, since at the end of the twenty-century those links became decisively explicit in the design process as the result of an increasing sensibility towards environmental aspects and the landscape. In any case, trees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were incorporated as a distinguished part of the architectural project.

At the end, some central theoretical contributions were established in the process, with respect to time, environmental systems and outdoor spatiality in advanced architecture. The first aim was to present a collection of exemplary houses that evinced explicit relationships with pre-existing trees. I worked on Studio house by F451arquitectura. The second aim consisted in performing a systematic analysis of six kinds of spatial relationships between them.

The six kinds of relational logics presented across exemplary cases studies were:

  • Positional relations – system by illation
  • Metaphorical relations – systems by analogy
  • Atmospherical relations – systems by interaction
  • Intangible relations – systems by correlation
  • Disturbed relations – systems by alteration
  • Environmental relations – systems by energy

Analysis:

 

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Relational logics: Studio house is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at Master of Advanced Architecture in 2015/16 by:

Student:

  • Dhairya Thakkar

Faculty:

  • Ricardo Devesa