Monochromatic Tectonics

project 3

Critical Context Workshop 2019 Surabaya Unit 01 Defry Agatha & Endy Yudho

From ages ago, people have been always working blindly with materials based on their instinct without understanding the initial material. As time goes by, this material are extracted into labels such as “modern”, “traditional”, and other labels that sometimes does not fit in baed on their initial characteristics. In this workshop, we analyze potentials on how these materials could be separated and adjoint again if we take off from those

labels, and instead analyzing it based on the characteristics. The workshop takes context in Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya where we first analyze the degree of contact and elaborateness on each joints in a specific context of the campus. WIth the given

context, we found a phenomenon where the intactness and elaboration of material could vary based on their characteristics and how its is adjoint in a certain plan. Thus, what if a certain material is treated in other architectural elements and adjointed back? WIll the elaborateness and intactness of it will stay the same?

The experiment tests on floor and roof element, where four element

materials (eliminated from the the mentioned parameters) will have a crossover: wood, WF steel, clay roof, and metal floor deck and tested

again based on the degree of contact and elaborateness. The research shows that each adjoint has the similar degree if adjoint in another element, thus we conclude that we do not learn the attribute of material

based on their position, but by understanding the characteristics of each materials as an individual.

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