LINES VS. POCHÉ

Exploring Emerging Modes Of Architectural Materiality

Year Duration Location

Type

Worshop

Tutor

2021 - 2022

5 months (Dec. - April)

Iran, Kashan Academic

Blurred Hybridities Workshop

Sina Mostafavi

Course Brief

Blurred-Hybridities aims to rethink how we materialize architecture. In a creative design process, in multiple scales, the very physicality of architecture can be represented, computed, and modeled with different levels of abstraction and concreteness.

About the Location

Borujerdiha House, a traditional house in an integrated urban fabric in Kashan, Iran, comprises thick pochés and a courtyard. We decided to lift it one level up to invert its introverted space organization. Here, the issue explores a generative formal, functional, or structural system to connect the two divided parts of the chunk.

Methods and Workflow

Blurred-Hybridities begins with an analysis of a historic or co temporary building with the goal of studying different models of materialization. These studies cover the way different building elements and sets of materials work in different scales ranging from micro to meso and macro. The selected buildings need to be situated within alive contexts in Iran or neighboring countries.

Initial sketches

One straightforward way to make an abstract spatial configuration or sketch matareializable is to use pre-existing or known architectural elements such as walls, stairs, columns, windows, etc. A plying these shortcuts in a design materialization process may result in building familiar enviro ments by selecting from a palette consisting of known architectural objects. While using these palettes, as our precedent references for materalization, may provide designers with ranges of easily constructible and socially acceptable solutions, they may not adapt to today’s everchanging requirements, emerging technologies, and demands for high-performance design.

Line vs. Pochés

This designed generative system should work with lines. This means that the pochés will transform into lines and join each other, therefore; another challenge is that the production system should work with strings in different scales ranging from micro to meso and macro and simultaneously functions in a way that applies to human public use.

As a system that aims to define space with its elements, this formulated installation works by joining sets of truss systems that, at some points, have structural functions.

The second substance porous and strong

Intermediate substance to create adhesion