IMProVe 2011 - Proceedings

Innovative Methods in Architectural Design
Design time and time architecture
P. J. Juan Gutiérrez (a)
(a) Universidad de Alicante
Abstract:
Undoubtedly the way in which we inhabit a building is different from the way we use an
object, especially as far as timing is concerned. Although we are part of the architecture
the same way that objects are our most immediate and artificial extension, they are
(usually smaller than that of an architectural construction) those who construct
discontinuously our intratemporality.
This communication, through the proposed analysis, demonstrates the importance of
knowing (and therefore understand) the time scale that defines and enables our objects.
Only through the tool that is the consciousness of his reality we will be able to get to
optimize our designs in order that our intentions are expressed through our objects.
Keywords: Time, Design, Architecture, SANAA
Corresponding Author: Pablo Jeremías Juan Gutiérrez
e-mail: pablo.juan@ua.es
New materiality: digital fabrication and open form
Notes on the Arbitrariness of Architectural Form
and Parametric Design.
C. L. Marcos (a)
(a) Departamento de Expresión Gráfica y Cartografía. Escuela Politécnica Superior.
Universidad de Alicante
Abstract:
Digitally conscious architectural design is founded on the assumption that computer tools
should modify architecture’s own language, not just the way architects must work.
The idea of open form is the result of producing encoded designs, that is: geometry is
defined parametrically and codified in a non material language instead of being imposed
over materiality –drawings or physical models- as is characteristic to architectural design
tradition. A parametric design is open in as much as it defines a topological model where
the connectivity between the parts and their relation to the whole generates a typology of
possible designs limited by the range of parameters involved. Some parallels can be drawn
with Eco’s idea of open form referring to some artistic production of the second half of the
XX century.
The increased complexity that can be achieved with new design tools has often led to a
banal formalism inconsistent with architecture’s own tradition. The baroqueness of recent
167
June 15 th – 17 th , 2011, Venice, Italy
IMProVe 2011 - Proceedings