Architectural Tectonics Research Articles

The Architectural Tectonics of Traditional Buildings in Mandailing, North Sumatera, Indonesia

The Architectural Tectonics of Traditional Buildings in Mandailing, North Sumatera, Indonesia

Four Aspects of Architectural Tectonics Through Exploration of the Meaning of Tectonics with a Systematic Literature Review Method

Architectural tectonics which has a meaningful relationship with aesthetic and construction aspects in buildings is still sometimes understood separately from one another. In addition to the need for architectural practice and education, in this context, this article seeks to enrich the meaning of architectural tectonics by exploring and synthesizing meaning from leading online and architectural dictionaries as well as various libraries of journals, proceedings, reports, and architectural books. Tectonics in architectural research and design still needs to be explored where this concept can be useful in the design process because it does not separate structure and aesthetics in architecture. In this study, it is known that there have been various theories from architectural experts about the architectural tectonic theory from 1781 to 2022. This research is a literature review method with a systematic review method with synthesis results through narrative (qualitative) techniques from analogy processes and meaning synthesis. The results of this study, among others, produce the meaning of tectonic in synthesis 1, namely architectural tectonics in aspects of the appearance on the surface, aspects of tectonics processes, and aspects of internal factors. Meanwhile, in synthesis 2, other aspects were produced outside of the three aspects in synthesis 1.

Identity, Locality and Image of the Residential House by Eko Prawoto

The development of residential architecture now depends on market tastes, with the trend of minimalist houses being identical in style and without a theme, as if they have lost their identity. In this case, there were many discussions that featured Eko Prawoto as an architect with the theme of local architecture, but the subject of this research questioned him. Therefore, this study discusses how the identity and concept of the natural locality of Eko Prawoto's residential works are expressed through architectural tectonics. The architectural biographical approach is used in qualitative inductive research through an emic view. The focus of this research topic is on the process of expressing the image of residential buildings through architectural tectonics. The results obtained are in the form of processing materials, techniques, and flavors in the process of building a house. This discussion is important to straighten the concept of local architecture and the meaning of architectural works through a biographical approach. This research is expected to be the basis for the use of tectonics as a basis for meaningful architectural development.

Reading the Rationality of Mangunwijaya's Architectural Tectonics

The development of tectonics as a discourse in the modern era has further exerted the influence of technology on works of architecture, thus allowing for more freedom when it comes to exteriorizing various structure forms. This phenomenon has resulted in diverse perspectives when it comes to understanding the concept of tectonics, most alluding to a physical representation. In essence, tectonics discusses not only physical forms, but also the verity that produces beauty. These current times - where the general public is dumbfounded by the ever-advancing technology - makes for greater appeal in researching Mangunwijaya's works on tectonics, for he was able to showcase both adeptness and simplicity, far away from neither technological advancements nor modern fabrications. His works on tectonics are highly appreciated by many observers. This research concludes that the essence of tectonic beauty lies heavily in its truthful and authentic representation instead of merely technological advancements. This understanding encourages architects and educators to enrich their knowledge when it comes to unveiling truthfulness behind a structure and what that represents as a discourse in tectonics beauty, while at the same time voicing a response to the current discourse on tectonics. Comprehension of Mangunwijaya's works on tectonics was able to be established through organizing a rational reading method in regard to case studies, finding relations between physical elements that construct tectonics with representations of tectonics, as well as regarding context as a significantly influential factor. Through a comprehensively-and-rationally-arranged matrix, digestible and teachable understanding of Mangunwijaya's tectonics was successfully obtained.

Geodesy ecological perspective of architectural tectonics in green building design

Geodesy ecological perspective of architectural tectonics in green building design

Penerapan Arsitektur Tradisional Bali pada Perancangan Teater Kesenian Kontemporer di Badung

<p><em><span lang="EN-US">Bali is a gathering of tourist who come from all over the country. Because of this, a mixture of cultures emerged on the island ranging from lifestyles such as clothing, language, food to architecture, so that over time Balinese architecture became faded. To prevent this, it is necessary to preserve traditional Balinese architecture by applying traditional forms of architecture to new buildings, especially the theater (as buildings that become icons of Balinese culture). The theory chosen was traditional Balinese architecture, contemporary theater provisions and neo-vernacular architecture. The method used to trace the case is descriptive qualitative by taking important aspects in neo-vernacular architecture as a meeting point between traditional Balinese architecture and neo-vernacular, then these aspects are used as a benchmark in the design transformation from what was originally a small span building to a wide span with a theater function. The study results obtained are guidelines and examples of the application of Asta Kosala-kosali in contemporary theater on spatial, roof, body and foot structures of Balinese architecture and the combination of Balinese architectural tectonics in contemporary art theater. This journal has a high urgency because at present there are many functions that require wide-span buildings, so that Balinese architecture can be applied to buildings without eliminating the culture or noble values in it.</span></em></p>

BUDAYA TEKTONIKA WOLOGAI ENDE, NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR


 
 
 Title: Culture of Tectonics Wologai – Ende, a Traditional House Constructed of Art Central Wologai Village, District Detusoko, Ancestral Heritage, Waeo – Ata Lio Under the Foothills of Lepembusu
 As a counterbalance to globalization in the field of architecture, an in-depth understanding of local architecture had been seen as an opportunity for a region to play an active role in the global era. One way to develop an understanding of local architecture is through the art of construction, or widely known as tectonics. The word architecture itself was known to derive from the word archi, which means master and tekton, which means woodworker (carpenter) or builder. Thus, the study of tectonics was important to understand how architects express their ideas through an integrated architectural - structural system. Unfortunately, profound research into this field has rarely been conducted so far. This study aims to an understanding of architectural tectonics in Wologai, Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur. As one of the oldest village in Flores, the indigenuous people of Wologai had been known for surviving the pressures of the developing world whilst maintaining their unique culture that were reflected in their vernacular buildings. This study consists of the following steps: Firstly, to record how local builders built their architecture through observation and interviews. Secondly, to develop an understanding about architectural tectonics based on related literature. The last step was to analyse and formulate architectural tectonics of Wologai vernacular architecture.
 
 

Life cycle assessment for Zero Emission Buildings – A chronology of the development of a visual, dynamic and integrated approach

Current regulations to reduce energy consumption, and GHG emissions from buildings have focused on reducing operational impacts [1] This paper addresses the specific challenge of increasing complexity and decreasing usability when dealing with the level of detail required when modelling life cycle assessment (LCA) and integrating embodied emission calculations in the design process of a ZEB. It is well known that architectural design processes inherently have high degrees of complexity, and this paper investigates how the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the design process can have a great impact on reducing GHG emissions and increasing sustainability in ZEBs. Visualisation is an invaluable tool to communicate complex data in an interactive way that makes it easier for non-expert users to integrate LCA thinking early and throughout the design process.The paper presents a chronology in the development of a more visual, integrated and dynamic approach involving the use of parametric LCA models for decision-support purposes. Such an approach provides the designer with a direct link between the 3D digital model and embodied emissions data contained in the ZEB Tool to perform life cycle GHG emission calculations of buildings. Integrating LCA in a more visual and easily understood way in the holistic design process can also influence more tangible material choices in terms of, for example, architectural tectonics or cultural heritage. This allows designers the possibility to choose, for example, durable or natural materials with the lowest environmental impact or innovative materials with high or low associated emissions and consider these holistically early in the design phase when the level of design freedom is greater. The extent to which existing ICT tools and User Interfaces (UI), such as dashboards, can provide dynamic visual feedback on selected parameters, including LCA, in the design process of zero emission buildings, is discussed. The paper presents two ‘proof of concept’ dashboards to visualise LCAs at the building (ZEB) and neighbourhood (ZEN) scale. Both approaches are currently being further developed in The ZEN research centre to visualise, analyse and model the data at different scales for different ZEN Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) using visualisation and immersive technologies, such as Extended Reality (XR) technologies including Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).

Negotiated matter: a robotic exploration of craft-driven innovation

ABSTRACTIn architectural design, crafts are often portrayed as a source of ornamental, figurative or historical inspiration. In this paper, instead, craft is framed as an open-ended process of making and material negotiations, involving material properties, diverging modes of knowledge production and representation, emergent tectonic configurations and embodied interaction with technology. By developing this framework, the paper aims to situate the exploratory nature of craft in the context of robotic architectural production. To achieve this, the paper develops a theoretical approach comprising notions of craft (Pye 1968. The nature and art of workmanship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), architectural tectonics (Frampton 2001. Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) and digital tectonics (Leach, Turnbull and Williams, 2004. Digital Tectonics. Wiley) in the context of robotic architectural production. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, the ongoing project ‘Computing Craft’ is presented as a case study illustrating the proposed framework in the context of cob construction. Finally, the project ‘Computing Craft’ instantiates the proposed framework and helps determine its applicability, impact and limitations.

The Reconstruction Project of Illumination Devices at the Krasnoselskaya Station of the Moscow Metro

The current state of the Moscow Metro station of the first priority that became operational in 1935 does not allow it to be called a cultural heritage site. This is due to the fact that lighting modernisation carried out by the Moscow Metro was based on fluorescent lamps. Such lamps are more energy efficient compared to incandescent lamps, which were used in original lighting devices specified in the Station Lighting Project developed by architects and designers. However, they significantly changed the station appearance, transforming the originally designed station with entire well visible architectural tectonics?1 from the standpoint of lighting into a simple, flat, unremarkable, and little loaded station of the Moscow Metro./br> This paper describes a method of lighting reconstruction at Krasnoselskaya station by means of original lighting devices that meet modern standards and requirements for cultural heritage sites. The historical analysis on the development of the station lighting environment was conducted during its operation in order to understand what kind of station was conceived by its architects, what changes occurred with its lighting over time, and how it influenced the station appearance and safety of passenger transportation.

Heritage Value through Regeneration Strategy in Mapo Cultural Oil Depot, Seoul

Regeneration projects are a crucial tool in helping cities improve their heritage value. This includes the rehabilitation of industrial facilities, a practical solution to increasing urban sustainability. Seoul’s Mapo Cultural Depot, launched in 2017 after and international competition in 2014, is a representative model of such industrial heritages. This winning design focused on rehabilitating the site throughout both the design and construction periods, valuing preservation over new construction even at the initial stages of the competition. In this study, we examine the Mapo Cultural Depot in terms of its balance with the natural surroundings, architectural tectonics, and emotional remnants. We argue that its physical appearance, landscaping, and tectonic relation, composed of a specific spectrum of time accumulation, help people experience a sense of collective memory. In this way, a sense of time and place are embedded in materiality and important to consider when moving toward urban sustainability. Our findings have implications for a new perspective on concrete regeneration strategies.

THE ARCHITECTURAL TECTONICS OF Y.B. MANGUNWIJAYA’S DESIGN AT THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY’S CAGE COMPLEX IN SENDANGSONO

Abstract - Apart from paying close attention to architecture as a constructional skill connected with material structure and construction, tectonics also covers its expression. One of the architects closely associated with tectonics is Y.B. Mangunwijaya, and in each of his works of architecture the tectonic content is put to the front or highlighted. Referring to Kenneth Frampton’s definition of tectonics as the Art of Joinings, it may be quite interesting to focus on the relationship between the three purposes to be found in a work of architecture, namely spatial distribution, construction, and ornamention.. One of the architectural works designed by Y.B. Mangunwijaya that has given shape to these three objectives is the Gua Maria Complex devoted to Mother Mary in Sendangsono. In Sendangsono there is a main route for pilgrims that is most commonly visited and passed by visitors to this sacred place. The analysis of architectural tectonics in this research study has been limited based on the ordering of the space passed via the main pilgrim route in Sendangsono. The spatial sequence consists of an entry, the Way of the Cross (Via Crucis), a basin for holy water, a yard featuring the Cave of Mother Mary (Gua Maria), and finally the yard across the river. Its scope includes the tectonics of space, structure, and ornamentation. The analysis indicates that the architectural tectonics in this complex has been designed with the concept of oneness and respect for nature in mind, so hat it has become one with the surrounding natural elements. The local materials used are environment-friendly. The next step is to further refine the elements used for this spatial and structural lay-out by way of ornamentation in order to enrich the Christian significance of it all.Keywords: architecture, tectonics, Y.B. Mangunwijaya

"A Theatre, A Giddy Receptacle?": Architecture and Audience Tectonics in the ASC's 2015 Actors' Renaissance Season

"A Theatre, A Giddy Receptacle?": Architecture and Audience Tectonics in the ASC's 2015 Actors' Renaissance Season

The naturalisation of architecture

Sustainability is gaining a firm presence within the discipline of architecture in spite of the number of obstacles with which it has been challenged: either confronting detractors, sceptics, and the discredit resulting from the abusive use of the term as a marketing tactic, or dealing with the actual practicalities inherent to its implementation. This heightened environmental consciousness increasingly engrained within the profession is solidly supported by a growing social, political and media interest, which has impelled new regulations and the involvement of new experts like physicists, engineers, and ecologists in the design process. This phenomenon is transforming architectural practice and design techniques, moving the focus from a mechanical perspective of architecture (tectonics, construction, materiality, structure) to a biotechnical approach which attempts to equip the architect with instruments to regard buildings as living structures permanently exchanging energy with their environment. Using the environment as a creative generator for design has prompted the emergence of new aesthetic models in current architectural design. The access to new tools, together with new concerns and ways of thinking, have opened new lines of intervention that seem to affect the profession in a more fundamental way. The focus of this paper is to provide an account of these cultural constructs as experimental aesthetic systems, with the intention of not only clarifying their principles and objectives, but also reflecting on the design techniques associated to them. Ultimately, this paper provides a reflection on the role of aesthetics in sustainable design, and on the critical question: is sustainability finally becoming an intrinsic part of architecture?

Architectural Tectonics as a “Living Pattern” of Building Structures

The paper considers tectonics, one of the main means of architectural composition. Analysis is made of different approaches to this notion. It is established as the main version in the understanding of architectural tectonics as a plastic image of tension distribution in a constructive system of a concrete object. Considered at this viewing angle are specific forms of the tectonic expression of different constructive systems and epochs, from antiquity to modern times. A typology of tectonic systems is presented. Singled out are graphic, naturally authentic, “natural”, false and neutral tectonic systems. Emphasized is the secondary character of the task of achieving the tectonic imagery in most of the historic epochs. Accentuated is the start-up condition of forming a tectonically expressive architectural form, the anthropologic nature of the ancient architectural creative endeavors. A conclusion is made on completion of the centuries-long era of development of historic systems of tectonic imagery and on transition to the era of “natural” tectonics without pre-established imagery. Forecast is given for development of non-tectonic architectural structures approaching, in terms of principles of formation, a large-scale design or sculptural plastics.

Reconsidering Ethics In The Tectonics Of Architecture Through The Tectonics Of Bodies In Love

The contradiction between technology and representation in the tectonics of architecture shows that the ethics of tectonic design is based on anatgonistic approaches. Similar to this, the value system of the tectonics of bodies in love can also be contradictory. However, love can be more open to different arrangements of materiality and meaning. Because Marcel and Albertine's love in M. Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time can be seen as going beyond these antagonistic approaches, this article analyzes the different arrangements of materaility and meaning in the different phases of their love and reflects them as possible arrangements of technology and representation comparable to architectural tectonics. This reflection makes the discussion of different approaches to the value system of architectural tectonics possible.

Book Review: Emerging Perceptions of Research by Design. Towards a Responsive Practice

Design Innovation for the Built Environment: Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice, edited by Michael U. Hensel, an architect, professor, and expert in architecture tectonics at the Oslo School of Architecture—brings in one volume 16 chapters by over 20 scholars and academics from around the globe. This new publication presents provocative ideas about the present and the future of practice and pedagogy in built environment-related disciplines, as well as how they can be adopted and adapted to promote and support design innovation. Hensel adeptly puts together 16 contributions of committed expert academics and professionals into a unified volume that speaks to academics and professionals. Appreciating the potential opportunities that knowledge can create, contributions pave the road for a responsive built environment education and practice.

Walter Benjamin's glimpses of the unconscious

Despite their overexposure, the writings of Walter Benjamin include appropriations and transfonnations of modernist architectural history and theory, the potential of which to illuminate the problematics of representation in the fields of architecture and photography remains insufficiently explored. In this essay, I focus on three moments in his writings, each of which touches on the issue of representation in a different way: first, Benjamin's reading of Carl Bötticher's theory of architectural tectonics as a theory of history in which the unconscious serves as a generative and productive source; second, Benjamin's transformation of Sigfried Giedion's presentation of iron structures into optical instruments for glimpsing a space interwoven with unconsciousness, a space the image of which had seemingly been captured by photography; and third, Benjamin's suggestion that the mimetic faculty continues to play within representation, history and technology to produce similarities between the human and the non-human. In each instance, Benjamin reworked the dynamic dualism of nineteenth-century tectonics — representation seeking reconciliation with alterity — into a dialectic. In so doing, he set the cause of revolution (of a modernity yet to come) against metaphysical and Utopian claims, progressive and regressive alike.

Geologic Evolution of the Late Jurassic-Recent Bogart Basin, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: an Integrated Study of Depositional Architecture and Salt Tectonics in a Continental Slope Setting: ABSTRACT

Geologic Evolution of the Late Jurassic-Recent Bogart Basin, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: an Integrated Study of Depositional Architecture and Salt Tectonics in a Continental Slope Setting: ABSTRACT

Ontology and Representation in Karl Bötticher's Theory of Tectonics

Karl Botticher is best known for his landmark theory of architectural tectonics. In the 1840s, Botticher proposed an integrated system of architectural expression, based first on considerations of plan and structure, and then on the symbolism of structure in ornamental forms. Fearful that philosophical aesthetics was leading architecture into purposeless immateriality and a dependence on extrinsic aims, Botticher interpreted ornament as the communication of themes intrinsic to building. In a historical sense, Botticher envisioned a medievalist armature of material and structural forces represented by an explanatory language of Greek ornamental forms. This reformulation of aesthetic ideas, coupled with his related advocacy for the visible expression of iron structure, had great significance for the pursuit of a system of architectural knowledge in modern Germany.