flow in architecture
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Flow in Architecture
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Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form.Architecture is always in a condition of flow, channeling people, rainwater, breezes, birdsong, energy *Architects have to think about flow the flow of people, energy, landscape, waste etc into and out of buildings
*Architecture in the Space of Flows - Andrew Ballantyne & Christopher Smith
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The experience of lived space as a temporal event as opposed to a static boundary
Temporal flow: in continuous flux, becoming, growing, evolving
Flow of movement, circulation, networks, technology
Architecture is dynamic and performative, fluid.
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How do effects of flow find expression in architecture?
The relation between form, flow and function can flow have a form or is it arbitrary?
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Yokohama Port Terminal Foreign Office ArchitectsPassenger Cruise Terminal mixed with civic facilities for the use of citizens.
Site has a pivotal role along the waterfront as a continous, open public space.
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The precinct of the pier is structured as a fluid, uninterrupted and multi-directional space
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'Our proposal for the project start by declaring the site as an open public space and proposes to have the roof of the building as an open plaza' - FOA
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'The project is then generated from a circulation diagram that aspires to eliminate the linear structure characteristic of piers, and the directionality of the circulation.' - FOA
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Fallingwater Frank Lloyd Wright
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Siting of the residence over the river rather than below
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Integration with the surrounding landscape
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Cantilevers
Sound of the river
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Architectural monumentality, but one that is generated via the landscape
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Interior/Exterior flow - place that is 'in-between'
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Sendai Mediatheque Toyo Ito
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Ito employs the notion of flow as a metaphor
His relation to flow can be associated with an aesthetic to lightness and fluidity of the architecture
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'Plate, Tube, and Skin'
Floating platesHollow tubesTranslucent skin
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The hollow structural tubes house all the building systems including HVAC, electric, network cables, stairs, and elevators and act as light-wells.
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Ito embeds each program into a network of interconnected spaces that reject the idea of defined divided spaces
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Technology brings a multi-dimensionality to spaces
Flow in the programmed spaces through flexibility