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Dissertation Abstract
New Paradigm on Performative Component-driven Architecture
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary research on self-organisation/ bio-inspired materials and structures in the scope of advances in design and emerging technologies
Banush Shyqeriu, M.Arch.
Abstract
Keywords: Interdisciplinarity, performance, bio-inspired, components, structure, self-organisation, material, wood,
The complexity of tasks and problems that surround us nowadays are no longer feasible to be approached through a dispersed non-integral complacence of different fields and professions, though, these problems and the advances in design together with techniques and technologies available to us, call for a high-level of methodological integration, a challenging but the only tangible way for an interdisciplinary architectural research.
The new methodology consist of an interdisciplinary laboratory of research, in one hand through investigating paradigms, concepts and principles from nature, to be applied in material sciences, engineering, manufacturing and architectural design, while, in the other hand to investigate the historical/theoretical background and current cultural and environmental impact, as a framework of critique and feedback loop.
I cannot tell you how readable the book of nature is becoming for me; my long efforts at deciphering, letter by letter, have helped me; now all of a sudden it is having its effect, and my quiet joy is inexpressible. - Goethe to Charlotte von Stein, 1786
The aim of the research is to use the new natural paradigm as a tool for sustainable architectural design, through an interdisciplinary research laboratory set through Architecture as theory and practice, Material Sciences and Cultural Studies as an interface discipline.
The focus on bringing new Paradigm for a New Structuralism is exploring and extracting concepts, criteria and principles from natural/biological systems, to be applied in the development of space, structure, form, material, skin and visual expression as a synergic whole, alike the natural systems, where the built form is organized as an extension of cultural and ecological environments.
The scrutiny inside the theme of component-driven architecture will be on structure of materials, specifically bio-inspired materials, seen always as a whole in the overall systems with materialized structure, form and performance. Moreover the very specific point of research will be on wood as a paradigm for developing performative bio-inspired materials and structures.
Setting the Methodological Framework of Interdisciplinary Research
Using Cultural Studies as an open Interface, a specific Architectural research is possible to be set in-between theory and design, in the context of an inter-disciplinary laboratory.
Finding the main questions, issues/problems and relevance that the research rises and focuses on is crucial for creating the Methodological framework in this interdisciplinary research:
- What is the role of an Architect today and in the near future?
- How architecture can be approached inter-disciplinary, and why?
- How can we harvest nature as a paradigm for Architecture through interdisciplinarity, and why this is relevant?
- Where do the historical perspectives lay to strengthen the relevance of nature as paradigm?
- What are the current and future urges and constrains to approach nature as a paradigm and problem-solving set-up?
- What means Performance for architecture, how architectural components can perform in a sustainable way and where does Nature's paradigm for performance lay?
- Why Structure is the kernel and cross-point of the interdisciplinary triad?
- How can we extract principles, concepts and criteria to harvest the paradigm from nature and how we can instrumentalize these into architectural design?
- What is the role of advances in design and emerging techniques and technologies in extracting and applying nature' Paradigm into a Performative Architectural Design?
- What is the role of culture versus technology as a driven force for paradigm, novelty and acceptance?
- What are the theoretical constrains and supports for creating a framework of inter-disciplinarity in-between Architecture, Cultural Sciences and Material Sciences?
- What is the expected outcome of this approach of Nature as a paradigm, within the framework of inter-disciplinarity and what is the role of a multi-way feedback?
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