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The main idea of the View House by Diego Arraigada & Johnston Marklee is clearly the views. They are framed vistas of the surrounding environment, they are projected on the building, with selected visual connections along its continuous façade that wraps the house, which concentric position has carefully chosen to control the view and the privacy using proximity and visual directions. The volumes of the cylindrical shape are substracted in a way to create an exterior skin that fluidly follows the openings, to simultaneously add metaphorical emphasis on the frames of views; a clear analogy between geometry and views. This idea can also be linked to atmospherical relation for its bare and pure architectural language visually trying to interact with nature around it. Moreover, through its geometric manipulations, the considerations in other relational logics are observable. The choreography of internal spiral sequence can be narrated from the outside appearance, an observable correlation between the internal flow and the architectural design. It also leads to the environmental aspect where the internal air flow and natural light intake are considrered as well as the volumetric substractions are helping in reduction of the ground footprint and of the internal air volume for energy reduction matters, where form and function meets.
In the critical reading, Mark Wigley’s essay “The Architecture of Atmosphere” explains in multiple manners how the control over atmosphere and its representation in architecture have generally resulted in struggle, in a way; illusional due to its intangibility and individualized responses. Atmosphere cannot indeed be measured, definitely a subjective sensation and personal experience of a built space. Nonetheless, some people can feel the same way and if this can be considered phenomenorological, where experience and consciousness can be meticulously studied and structured into informations, it may lead to some sort of measure and control over users reaction and, perhaps in new future, predict how people live the capture of the atmosphere through control over specified architecture.
In an era where architecture, nature and digital coexists, the complexity of the relationship between these elements demands for a structural rules to govern it. I believe in using these Relational Logics, for the potential of advanced architecture is expanded and more efficiently rendered through them as fundamental communication tools and patterns. They are systematized and interrelated entities that help architecture foster and advance rationally and methodically.
As for my topic of research, my interest lay on the true potential of this relationship: how can we further explore architecture by extracting the essence each from architectural experience, nature/environment conditions and inspiration, and digital exploration/fabrication; how can each of them interrelated with each other will yield to another dimension in architectural design. Performing along with these evolving techniques and expanding technologies, exploring geometries and new typologies that nature can teach or environment direct our way of making architecture, the multiplication of these fields results in exponential products and possibilities. Orchestrating all these elements with given time and the incoming knowledge, I would really like to put hands on research that would carefully balance out the emerging digital field and tools combined with the current architectural methods, for a rational transitional implementation and sustainable application.