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Concept

By Ar. Zamri Ismail FSRB-UPM Nov 2012

As defined by RIBA

What does an Architect do?

To Create

To Plan

To Supervise

SITE SYNTHESIS

Understanding Nature

"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understandeverything better." Albert Einstein

“We do not seek to imitate nature, but rather to find the principles she uses” – Buckminster Fuller

“Don’t create an object, create a site when you areworking… the site will not remain the same, for yourdesign will create a new site and a new landscape.”Mikko Heikkinen

Concept

Concepts are abstract

Words are not concepts.

Words are signs for concepts.

Concept A concept is an abstract idea or a mental symbol, typically associated with a corresponding representation in and language or symbology, that denotes all of the objects in a given category or class of entities, interactions, phenomena, or relationships between them.

Concepts are abstract in that they omit the differences of the things in their extension, treating them as if they were identical. They are universal in that they apply equally to every thing in their extension. Concepts are also the basic elements of propositions, much the same way a word is the basic semantic element of a sentence. Unlike perceptions, which are particular images of individual objects, concepts cannot be visualized. Because they are not, themselves, individual perceptions, concepts are discursive and result from reason. They can only be thought about, or designated, by means of a name. Words are not concepts. Words are signs for concepts.

Concept

Generally speaking, concepts are: (a) acquired dispositions to recognize perceived objects as being

of this kind or of that kind, and at the same time (b) to understand what this kind or that kind of object is like, and

consequently (c) to perceive a number of perceived particulars as being the

same in kind and to discriminate between them and other sensible particulars that are different in kind.

In addition, concepts are acquired dispositions to understand what certain kinds of objects are like both :

(a) when the objects, though perceptible, are not actually perceived, and

(b) also when they are not perceptible at all, as is the case with all the conceptual constructs we employ in physics, mathematics, and metaphysics.

Concept

On some accounts, there may be agents (perhaps some animals) which don't think about, but rather use relatively basic concepts (such as demonstrative and perceptual concepts for things in their perceptual field), even though it is generally assumed that they do not think in symbols. On other accounts, mastery of symbolic thought (in particular, language) is a prerequisite for conceptual thought.

Concept Concepts are bearers of meaning, as opposed to agents of meaning. A single concept can be expressed by any number of languages. The concept of DOG can be expressed as dog in English, Hund in German, as chien in French, and perro in Spanish. The fact that concepts are in some sense independent of language makes translation possible - words in various languages have identical meaning, because they express one and the same concept.

The acquisition of concepts is studied in machine learning as supervised classification and unsupervised classification, and in psychology and cognitive science as concept learning and category formation. In the philosophy of Kant, any purely empirical theory dealing with the acquisition of concepts is referred to as a noogony.A term labels or designates concepts. Several partly or fully distinct concepts may share the same term. These different concepts are easily confused by mistakenly being used interchangeably, which is a fallacy. Also, the concepts of term and concept are often confused, although the two are not the same.

Ingredients of Architecture

Concept

1. A general idea derived or inferred from specific instances or occurrences.

2. Something formed in the mind; a thought or notion, a scheme or plan.

3. A broad abstract idea or a guiding principle, such as one that determines how a person or culture behaves, or how nature, reality, or events are perceived and in architecture, it is what kind of creation will it be.


Concept

The concept is what the architect owns in the project. Architecture is such that through codes, context, structural systems,etc. many parts have become almost constants.

It is the concept that the architect brings to the project that organizes the “constants” in a way that is unique.

It is what makes the architecture.


Context

The situation within which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it.

The circumstances of events that form the environment within which something exists or takes place


Context

“All an architect does is make spaces. It is the quiet and thoughtful arrangement of these spaces that makes houses, neighborhoods, streets and environments”

“…Good architecture never shouts”

“…It is like a well-mannered lady that is polite to its neighbours.”

“…The order and progression of the street is more important than the individual buildings”

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Concept Design – process

Points to consider:ApproachMethaphorParables- corelatioanshipTrendStyleThemeIssuesIdeasBrain ChildHyphothesisThesisRational-use information available to forecast and anticipate

Concept Conception Stage

-Vital image in mind of a designer-Attainable, possible within the constraints-Dream-Utopian-How a perfect creation it is-Clean, Elegant, Compelling, Desire, Motivation-Pure, Beauty-Burning passion in design process and sustainable

HOW?...

• Recognize a problem, create a statement that shows intent to correct the problem, and then provide the means to a successful solution

2. Generate and initiate a strong design concept that has a clear focus on the intent of the problem.

3. Develop a design through the strength of concept.

4. Strengthen the concept through the initiation anddevelopment of the design.


The Skin & Bones: Giving form to concept

Nature as Inspiration

Albert Einstein "Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - A. E.

Albert Einstein saw the universe as a puzzle, and he delighted in trying to solve its mysteries. All he needed to contemplate the cosmos was his most valuable scientific tool—his imagination.

American Museum of Natural History

'All art is but imitation of nature.' — Seneca

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Wuttemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879, and spent his early years in Munich. Although Jewish, he was obliged to attend a Catholic elementary school while taking private lessons in Judaism at home.


Structure

“In understanding the world of architecture, the language of geometry is as important as the language of structure. Both are significant sources of inspiration for me, along with the properties of materials and the world of nature”.

Santiago Calatrava

Examples

Frank Lloyd Wright

He authored twenty books and countless articles, lectured throughout the United States and in Europe, and developed a remarkable plan for decentralizing urban America (Broadacre City) that continues to be debated by scholars and writers to this day -- some 60 years after its conception.

Wright is considered by most authorities to be the 20th century's greatest architect. Indeed, the American Institute of Architects in a recent national survey, recognized Frank Lloyd Wright to be "the greatest American architect of all time." Architectural Record magazine (the official magazine of the American Institute of Architects) declared that Wright's buildings stand out among the most significant architectural works during the last 100 years in the world.

The soil that sprouted Frank Lloyd Wright was the rural Wisconsin countryside.

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation 1867-1959, American architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

Throughout his life Wright spoke of the influence of nature on his work and attributed his love of nature to those early years in the rural Wisconsin countryside. During summers spent on his uncle's farm he learned to look at the patterns and rhythms found in nature - the branch of a tree (a natural cantilever), outcroppings of limestone, and the ever-changing sandbars.

Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation 1867-1959, American architect

Wright later advised his apprentices to "study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." The influence of nature is apparent in his work. From the earth-hugging "Prairie" houses such as the 1909 Robie House in Illinois and Taliesin in Wisconsin, to the cascading cantilevers of the 1936 Fallingwater in Pennsylvania (considered to be the most famous house ever designed for non-royalty), from the sky-lighted forest of concrete columns of the 1936 Johnson Wax Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin, the rugged beauty of Taliesin West in Arizona, to the spiraling, "snail-like" Guggenheim Museum completed in 1959 in New York City, his work shows a command of nature and native materials and an instinctive understanding of social and human needs.

No other architect so intuitively designed to human scale. No other architecture took greater advantage of setting and environment. No other architect glorified the sense of "shelter" as did Frank Lloyd Wright. "A building is not just a place to be. It is a way to be," he said.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Falling Water

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style House

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkFrank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece completed in 1959

Kisho Kurokawa

In 1958, he predicted a “Transition from the Age of the Machine to the Age of Life,” and has continually utilized such key words of life principles as metabolism (metabolize and recycle), ecology, sustainability, symbiosis, intermediate areas (ambiguity) and Hanasuki (Splendor of Wabi) in order to call for new styles to be implemented by society.

Architecture is a spiritual statement and an expression of thought of the age in which it is created. Therefore, architecture has also entered the age of symbiosis, the age of diversity and the age of diffusion.

Formalism, style and symbolism similar to fashion design are currently rampant in the architecture industry. There is no future for architecture without thought.

December 18, 2006Kisho Kurokawa

A great conceptual revolution is underway across the world, but it is taking place so quietly that it has gone largely undetected. It is not the birth of a new ideology, like capitalism or communism; nor is it the advent of a new philosophy to replace that of Kant or Descartes. yet the new currents of thought that are arising around the world will have a greater effect on us than any ideology or systematic philosophy. They are unarguably changing our way of living and our idea of what it is to be human. This great, invisible change identify as the philosophy of symbiosis.

Kisho Kurokawa

Kisho Kurokawa Fusionpolis, one-north Development, Singapore2) Competition theme

The 123,000 sqm building, internally referred to as ‘Techpolis’, will be the first major development in the Central Xchange ? the cluster for the Infocommunications & Media (ICM) industries in one-north. It will be home to ICM research institutes, industry players and supporting industries.

Kisho Kurokawa Fusionpolis, one-north Development, Singapore

Characteristics of the KUROKAWAs Plan

1. Layered City2. Vertical Zoning3. A Super Slab is layered artificial ground.4. Crack at Level 1 (GL)5. The Common is arranged on Super Slab6. The Eco-Tec City is a Hi-Tec Building7. The super slab is equipment and machinery space.8. Vertical air ducts (natural ventilation system from the interior to the outside)9. Double Skin10. Privacy in the residential and office zones

11. Eco-Tec City is ecology oriented and sustainable architecture.a) Solar energyb) Sky Gardenc) Recycling of Home Garbaged) Recycling rainwatere) Recycling body heatf) The double skin sharply reduces the penetration of heat from the outside.g) The road pavement is all rainwater permeable paving that allows that part of rainwater not recycled to return to the ground for keeping eco-systems.All these systems are the characteristics of a sustainable Eco-building.

Osaka International Convention Center (Grand Cube Osaka)

Kisho Kurokawa

KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) connotes the Islamic space by using four H-P shells.

Kisho Kurokawa The terminal building area was designed using the concept of Airport in the forest, forest in the airport, in which it is surrounded by green space.

The Sidra design is the creation of Pelli Clarke Pelli and the project’s executive architectural firm Ellerbe Becket.

Medical Centre in Doha

Selected as one of the 10 most influential living American architects in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects, Pelli remarked that his firm Pelli Clarke Pelli has tried to connect in every possible way the forms of SMRC with Qatar’s history, tradition, climate, apart from Islamic architecture

Qatar Foundation's Sidra Medical and Research Center today revealed architectural plans that combine cutting edge technology with an incandescent design that both reflects and celebrates the sky

Menara Mesiniaga

Design Features The building brings together the principles of the bioclimatic approach to the design of tall buildings developed over the previous decade by the firm.

In particular, the building has the following features:• "Vertical Landscaping" (planting) is introduced into the building facade and at the

"skycourts". In this building the planting starts by mounding up from ground level to as far up as possible at one side of the building. The planting then "spirals" upwards across the face of the building with the use of recessed terraces (as skycourts).

• A number of passive low-energy features are also incorporated: All the window areas facing the hot sides of the building (ie. east and west sides) have external louvres as solar-shading to reduce solar heat gain into the internal spaces. Those sides without direct solar insolation (ie. the north and south sides) have unshielded curtain-walled glazing for good views and to maximise nautral lighting.

• The lift lobbies at all floors are naturally ventilated and are sun-lit with views to the outside. These lobbies do not require fire-protection pressurisation (ie. low-energy lobby). All stairways and toilet areas are also naturally ventilated and have natural lighting.

• The sunroof is the skeletal provision for panel space for the possible future placing of solar-cells to provide back-up energy source. BAS (Building Automation System) is an active Intelligent Building feature used in the building for energy-saving.

KenYeang

KenYeang

T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn BhdJabal Omar TowersMecca, Saudi Arabia

“…Highly intuitive and reflexive”

Morphosis- Thom Mayne

…constructing large-scale “environments” wherein the architecture provokes an active dialogue: the buildings and its surroundings mutually interpret each other. Innovation arises in a matrix of conflicts — rather than necessarily underwriting the given function of a space,

Mayne’s designs often challenge the idea of spatial coherence.

November 9, 2009 November 9, 2009 by by will cordeiro

http://cornellsun.com/user/2090

“…Highly intuitive and reflexive”

Morphosis- Tom Mayne


“…open ended and reflexive rather than visionary or pre-conceived”


“…while programmatic aspects of project are being defined, our designersbegin their assessment of the contextual issues”


Vienna Housing, Vienna Austria (1995)

Lawrence Residence, California (1980)

Crawford Residence, California (1990)

Kate Mantilini Restaurant, California (1986)

Case Studies

Performance assessment of:

Function

Form

Economy

Time

Idea

Case StudiesPerformance assessment of:

Function: Activities- classification, inside, outside, in between, relationship,distance

Form: Aesthetic, materials, technology, context, sustainability

Economy: Users, added value, shared usage, wastage

Time: Life cycle, durability, future expansion or addition, heritage value

Idea:Originality, vernacular, influences, reminiscence, copy (‘ciplak’)

Case Studies

Critical obvervation to identify:

-significant and relevant issues -lesson from creation or architecture being tested

Help formulate a strong design concept for future creation

EXAMPLEAdib Marzuki IIUM

EXAMPLEZIA

EXAMPLEAmal Mohd Tahir IIUM

EXAMPLEAfif IIUM

EXAMPLEAkmyr Ahmad IIUM

EXAMPLESuhail IIUM

EXAMPLEAdib Maruziki IIUM

EXAMPLEShafei Kudos IIUM