Interactivities in Architecture -- Transformations that Evoke Human’s senses
00 Interactivities MArch Thesis Fall 2009-10 CHING Kar Wai Carrie
Interactivities in Architecture -- Transformations that Evoke Human’s senses
00 Interactivities MArch Thesis Fall 2009-10 CHING Kar Wai Carrie
Advisor: Nelson TAM Department of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contents Working Title Interactivities in Architecture -- Transformations that Evoke Human’s senses Keywords Objective Hypothesis (Daily) Architecture should allow Interactivities on Users’ Level, which can be achieved through Transformations that Evoke Human’s senses. interactive architecture Precedents Suitaloon, 1968: Michael Webb, Archigram. Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo Japan, 1972: Shigeru Ban, Kisho Kurokawa. Markies, the Netherlands, 1985-95: Eduark Bohtlingk. Ove Glas House, Sweden, 2004: 24H. Fukuoka Housing, Fukuoka, 1991: Steven Holl. Starlight Theatre, Rockford, Illinois, USA, 2003: Studio Gang O’Donnell. Kalkin House, Shelburne, Vermont, USA, 2001: Adam Kalkin. Garden Hut, Sant miguel de crilles, Spain, 2004: Eightyseven Architects. Lucerne Cultural and Congress Centre, Switzerland, 1993-200: Jean Nouvel.
Hoberman Arch, Salkt Lake City, USA, 2002: Chuck Hoberman. Floirac House, Bordeaux, France, 1995: Rem Koolhaas OMA. Crate House, New York, USA, 1991: Alan Wexler. Milwaukee Art Museum, USA, 1994-2001: Santiago Calatrava. Galleria Mall West, Seoul, South Korea, 2004 UN Studio and Arup Lighting. Allianz Arean, Munich, Germany, 2005: Herzog and De Meuron. Curtain Wall House, Tokyo, Japan, 12995: Sigeru Ban. SCI-Arc, Boardroom and Event Space, Los Angeles, USA, 2003: Jones Partners. House of Winds, Ibaraki, Japan, 2004: Takeyuki Okubo. Glass Shutter House, Tokyo, Japan, 2004: Shigeru Ban. Nine-Square Grid House, Hadano, Japan, 1997: Shigeru Ban. NASA Bioplex Capsule, 2000: Foreign Office Architects. Naked House, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan, 2000: Shigeru Ban. Blue Moon, Groningen Aparthotel, The Netherlands, 2001: Foreign Office Architects. Brill House, Silverlake, California, USA, 1999: Jones Partners. architectural examples Interactivity with/without interactions human - architecture - human Interactivity interactivity vs interaction
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Working Title
Interactivities in Architecture -- Transformations that Evoke Human’s senses
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interactivity transformation sensation daily life (?) flexibility (?)
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To spark interactivities between architecture and its users
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(Daily) Architecture should allow Interactivities on Users’ Level, which can be achieved through Transformations that Evoke Human’s senses.
(Daily) Architecture should allow Interactivities on Users’ Level,
architecture that primarily serves daily state of being mutually active,
e.g. residents in housing, workers in offices, stu
Definition of Terms
which can be achieved through Transformations that Evoke human’s Senses.
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hearing, sight, touch, smell, ta
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udents and teachers in schools, ...
aste, kinesthesia and proprioception, the human’s abilities to detect the environment
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hange in composition or structure, outward form or appearance, character or condition
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residential buildi residents could relationships with passers-by on stre
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cityscape: travellers could fi more memorable
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the office of a computer game company, Rival Gaming
carol’s home: gather & play wii game
play an active role in learning digest knowledge and grasp skills interactive whiteboard for education in school
find their trips, business or leisure,
The Crown Fountain, Millennium Park, Chicago. Jaume Plensa.
interactive architecture
communicate with one another hus being more productive
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human - architecture - human
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human - architecture - human Interactions
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Interactions
Interactivity
◊ state of being interactive
◊ mut ◊ invo [1]
“Interactivity is the extent to which use content of a mediated environment in real t
Interactivity
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Interactions
tually or reciprocally active olving the actions or input of a user
[1]: Fred Mish (Ed.). Definition of interactivity. In Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary. [2]: Jonathan Steur (1992). Defining Virtual Reality. p. 84.
Interactivity
ers can participate in modifying the form and time.�
Interactions
interactivity vs interaction inter + activity
vs
inter + action
interactivity vs interaction
inter- L. inter (prep., adj.) “among, between,” from PIE *enter “between, among” [ . . . ]
Interactions
activity 1549, “state of being active,” from Fr. activité, from M.L. activitatem (nom. activitas), a word in Scholastic philosophy, from L. activus (see active). Meaning “state of being active, briskness, liveliness” recorded from 1530. [ . . . ] active 1340, from L. activus, from actus (see act). [ . . . ]
act (n.) c.1384, from O.Fr. acte, from L. actus “a doing” and actum “a thing done,” both from agere “to do, set in motion, drive, urge, chase, stir up,” from PIE root *ag- “to drive, draw out or forth, move” [ . . . ] [3]
[3]: Douglas Harper (Ed.). Online Etymology Dictionary.
interactivity vs interaction
action c.1360, from O.Fr. action (12c.), from L. actionem (nom. actio), from pp. stem of agere “to do” (see act). [ . . . ]
Interactions
Sensation
sense hearing / audition
stimuli sound
sight / vision
image
touch / tactus
surface, temperature
smell / olfaction
odour
taste / gustation
savour, flavour
kinesthesia
position, movement, muscular tensions
proprioception
Sensation
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Interactions
balance, acceleration, position, locatio orientation, movement of the body
sensory organs ears, body eyes skin nose
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ear
[4]: eScience Lectures Notes.
Sensation
tongue, nose
Interactions
“how we perceive the world and how we are in the world”
“how we perceive the world and how we are in the world” [4]
Interactions
I feel
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efore [4]: eScience Lectures Notes.
“how we perceive the world and how we are in the world�
I act
Interactions
Transformation Transformation
an act, process, or instance of transforming or being transformed
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transformation
to change in composition or structure to change the outward form or appearance of to change in character or condition
[5]: Fred Mish (Ed.). Definition of transformation. In Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary. [6]: Fred Mish (Ed.). Definition of transform. In Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary.
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transformation
Elements involved
Elements involved
transformation
from what
who
to what
Elements involved
how
transformation
transformation Elements involved
from what
tangible
form architectural elements space
to what
ambience
Elements involved
intangible
transformation
transformation
transformation
how states (tangible)
geometrical transform
open/close
displacement
collapse/expansion
scaling rotation motion shear
how
reflect
transformation
stress folding creasing bellows assembly hinging rolling sliding nesting inflation fanning concertina
how
mation
mechanism
transformation
Methodology Research Interactivity - Transformability - Sensation - Other Interactive Objects
Research ---> Design
- Architecture
methodology
Program
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Site Interactive Architecture
Research ---> Design
Design
methodology
Schedule Formation of Hypothesis (Research) Test of Hypothesis (Design)
Main Phases
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