Unpredictable Architecture by 廖品芝

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Student Yunfei Cao, Pin Chih Liao Advisor Kristy Balliet Editors Content Taian Wang, Irvin Shaifa, Henry Wang Graphic Yunfei Cao, Pinchih Liao, Liu Bowen, Yanchen Wu Copy Giovanna Penna Lima, Xiaolei Liu, Manying Wang

SCI-Arc MArchh II Graduate Thesis 2020 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the publisher.

TABLE OF CONTENT

STATEMENT

01 TIME

Unfinished

Material

02 PERCEPTION

Definition of Building Element

Spatial Hierarchies

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03 IDENTITY

Collage

Transformation of Prototype

THESIS CONCEPT MASSING

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STATEMENT Unpredictable Architecture develops in multiple stages without a finished state. It maintains an incomplete status by adjusting structures and materials. Unpredictable Architecture redefines the traditional definitions of architectural elements and creates interaction between objects. The project responds to architectural issues from different standpoints and reconsiders coherence. The unpredictable is addressed in three ways: TIME, PERCEPTION, and IDENTITY.

When architecture becomes predictable, adhering to norms and qualities of means stability, architecture loses the potential to develop further. By detaching architecture from being defined through its interaction with humans, we consider architecture also interacts recursively with itself. We believe that function-oriented or efficiency-oriented are not the only answer to develop architecture. Architecture can also create a sense of the unfamiliar or of mystery by losing its conventional definition.

TIME, PERCEPTION, and IDENTITY are three key factors to unpredictable architecture. TIME defines unpredictable architecture as a container of an era. By contract with timeless architecture, as time passes, unpredictable architecture has the capacity to revise and respond to changes. PERCEPTION marks the tension between each architectural element. The unique sensibilities of each element leave the viewers a feeling in perception, that there is more than one way to read architecture. IDENTITY is the uncertainty of each object. There is the ability for different forms to coexist.

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01 TIME

Architecture is a reflection of the world. To adequately justify Unpredictable Architecture when the world changes, in contrast to conventional timeless architecture, architecture should have the capacity to revise and respond to the changing world. In this way, architecture is the container of an era.

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UNFINISHED

Architecture has the possibility of extension. From various standpoints, people might see a building or multiple objects; they might feel itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finished or under construction. Architecture could keep communicating with the audiences and interact with themselves.

MATERIAL

Tactility is the sense of touch and the most significant feeling when people get closer to a building. Since the development of technology, we can blur the boundaries between temporary and permanent materials. Also, there are chances to reverse the original features of materials.

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UNFINISHED During the time passing, the users of architecture are shifting. An unfinished architecture can provide an unpredictable future. This diagram is showing three possible stages in the unfinished building.

Stage 03 Future

Stage 02 Now

Stage 01 Existing

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Yamanashi Broadcasting, Kenzo Tange

Folly#6,Coop Himmelb(l)au,1990

Stone House, GĂźnther Domenig

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MATERIAL Blur the boundaries between temporary and permanent materials is one way to show the time in unpredictable architecture. Also, we can reverse the original features of materials. For instance, use a soft or translucent material to make a solid massing.

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House with Curtain,Raimund Abraham

Gharfa Installation, Edoardo Tresoldi

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McCormick Tribune Campus Center, OMA

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02 PERCEPTION

The architectural elements should communicate with each other. Each part of the building is itself an object and has its autonomy and life. The tension between the parts of the building, their qualities, and defamiliarization, leaves the viewer with a feeling that there is more than one way to approach the building as a whole object.

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DEFINITION OF BUILDING ELEMENT

What is the wall? What is the slab? What is the ceiling? Just like the shape edge blurred by the brush in Mark Rothkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting, the architectural elements dimmed in Friedrich Kieslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Endless House.

SPATIAL HIERARCHIES

From the exterior, by creating a specific atmosphere for each elevation, every view could be front in a building. In the interior, re-programming a project and testing different orders of spaces to reach more possibilities.

SUBTRACT

Create voids in a building to provide new definitions and possibilities to space by breaking down the massing.

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DEFINITION OF BUILDING ELEMENT Soften the boundary of each element can a space unpredictable. When the established elements in architecture define a space, stability will be the feature.

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Endless House, Friedrick Kiesler

National Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Toyo Ito

Concept Illustration of National Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, Toyo Ito

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SPATIAL HIERARCHIES

Library to the Churchill College Cambridge competition,Stirling and Gowan

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Each piece of architecture is equally important and carries on real interactions.

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SPATIAL HIERARCHIES From the exterior, by creating a specific atmosphere for each elevation, every view could be front in a building.

History Faculty Building, James Stirling

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SPATIAL HIERARCHIES The interesting thing of this precedent which included lines, surfaces, and massings is it holds heavy three-dimensional space on thin two dimensions elements.

Suzuki House, Bolles and Wilson

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SPATIAL HIERARCHIES In the interior, re-programming a project and testing different orders of spaces to reach more possibilities.

Expo 2000, MVRDV

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SUBTRACT A void could be an isolated object in a building. At the same time, the void interrupts the regular walls, slabs, and ceilings.

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Conical Intersect, Gordon Matta-Clark

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SUBTRACT The space in architecture can be reorganized by the voids. And each void has a unique characteristic.

The Binhai Science Museum, Bernard Tschumi

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03 IDENTIT Y

In architecture, there is no right answer. Maybe, trying to put varying answers together is a possibility. For us, keeping the different personalities of diverse objects is the answer. Uncertainty is a fascinating characteristic of architecture for us.

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COLLAGE

Using buildings of varying style and era as access to rethink the elements of them and operate the ingredients in a single building which can be recognized as it keeps certain characters but unconventional to receivers.

TRANSFORMATION OF PROTOT YPE

The rethinking of the prototype is one of the things we are doing. Not the standard geometries, but a shape that illustrates a buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concept. And by keeping the transformation of the shapes in varying architectural language.

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COLLAGE Using buildings of varying style and era as access to rethink the elements of them and operate the ingredients in a single building which can be recognized as it keeps certain characters but unconventional to receivers.

Archisculpture Collage, Beomsik WON

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In order to escape the predictability, we utilize imagination and invention to create more possibilities.

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COLLAGE Since we sense there are always more chances to illustrate a project which was finished, combining two proposals together is an experiment.

Concept Collage, Pinchih Liao and Yunfei Cao

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Parc de La Villette Competition, Rem Koolhaas

Parc de La Villette Competition, Bernard Tschumi

Concept Collage, Pinchih Liao and Yunfei Cao

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TRANSFORMATION OF PROTOT YPE The rethinking of the prototype is one of the things we are doing. Not the standard geometries, but a shape that illustrates a buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concept. And by keeping the transformation of the shapes in varying architectural language.

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San Francisco Student Union Building, Paffard Keatinge-Clay

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TRANSFORMATION OF PROTOT YPE

Big dipper, Pinchi Liao and Yunfei Cao

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Big dipper, Pinchi Liao and Yunfei Cao

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THESIS CONCEPT MASSING

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01 TIME

UNFINISHED MATERIAL

02 PERCEPTION

DEFINITION OF BUILDING ELEMENT SPATIAL HIERARCHIES SUBTRACT

03 IDENTIT Y

COLLAGE TRANSFORMATION OF PROTOTYPE

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THESIS CONCEPT MASSING UNFINISHED & TRANSFORMATION OF PROTOT YPE