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Title:
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Making Architecture: Let's Be Tangible |
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Alternative title:
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Establishing Ground Between the Conceptual & Real |
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Author:
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Graham, René Elizabeth |
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Degree:
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Master of Architecture thesis |
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Abstract:
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This thesis interrogates the architectural potentialities of materials and
their ability to inform space. Contemporary digital design techniques have
allowed, more than in the past, the exploration of new complex formal
languages, free of materiality. Current construction techniques have
made meager attempts at achieving equivalent complexities, resulting
in a severance between the drawing [conceptualization] and making
[realization] of architecture.
Using chipboard, the material of the architectural model, this project
develops an “a posteriori” logic of material performance by exploring
physical properties through multiple techniques of fabrication and
manipulation. In a broader sense, this project demonstrates how the
physical properties of any material influences the conceptualization,
manipulation, and fabrication processes of output. Working through
established constraints of materiality, representation and design, this
project establishes a catalog of methodological insights demonstrating
how the conceptual design and physical construction of architecture can
be more closely integrated. |
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Description:
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The physical format of this thesis as a "flip book" that allows sections to be manipulated independent of other sections is a critical feature in understanding this work. Please contact Fondren Library to gain access of the full version of this Thesis.
library.rice.edu |
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Citation:
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Graham, René Elizabeth. "Making Architecture: Let's Be Tangible." Masters Thesis, Rice University, ETD http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64202. |
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Citable link to this page:
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http://hdl.handle.net/1911/64202 |
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Date:
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2010 |
