thesis subject

I am interested in architecture as a changing thing which is sensed by all senses and is not limited to its physicality. The designer develops a building from conceptual to actual, and represents the built thing on paper. This representation is not true to what the designer wishes to actuate. Besides the visual sense, all other senses that are stimulated in the thing remain as dreams in the designer's mind. Representation is used to communicate the form and concepts of a building, and is conventionally done by showing the physical nature of the building, in plan, section, elevation, and typical drawings used also by the construction team to construct the thing. There is nothing wrong with these sets of drawings, as the easiest and most consensus way of communicating our ideas is by visual media. My struggle is always thinking the result of my design is the representation of it. I often confuse the content of my work with this end result of representational drawings- the thing is communicated as a visual object.

When we are in a space; it is through all senses which composes the experience, and the memory and the quality of the space. it may not be even the space that is the main character in this story, the space may be the background which contextualizes the main character, the inhabitant.

I want to explore architecture through the senses of the body, through movement of the body.

the body can be the human body, or a body which contains the thing in which the architecture accomidates. I do not wish for the work to be the main character in the story, assuming my project is dreamt as some type of narrative. my work is a slate of material which suggests, and assists the inhabitant to live through the program requirements.

shadows are interesting as they are made through the absense, not presence, of light. but shadows are only distinguishable because we also recognise what a shadow is not.

we rely on light (and all powers of nature: sun, water, gravity, etc) to be there when we make electric, solar and hydro power and therefore the building is in constant dependancy of these 'exterior' powers. if architecture can be seem as something depend, something in need of an exterior force- architecture can be seen in fact as a mechanism, a device, for forces to work 'through' to being a spatially recognizable physical object which we live 'through'.

architecture as a 'device' is in constant change. I wish to study and inquire about this constant change, in exploring the forces that architecture utilises in its process of becoming a thing.