Material Precedent: The Typology of Modern Tectonics by GAIL PETER BORDEN
Focusing on material as premise of design exploration, this paper identifies and graphically illustrates how material and modern tectonics have defined the formal and conceptual premise for the making of architecture.
Design shall not simply ingenuity of form but rather a collaboration of poetry and rational system (materials & construction). To achieve,
Firmness + Commodity + Delight
Associated material tectonic employed extends its influence to express itself through the spatial concepts of the architecture.
Steel defines Vertical Lines
Concrete defines Planes & Frames
Masonry creates modulated Solid Edges
Glass establishes Transparent Veils
Plan study
1. Material Function
2. Structural Material (Bay/ Module)
3. Material Application
4. Module- Material Module
Sectional study
1. Skin + Surface- Material Texture
2. Skin + Surface- Material Enclosure (Edge)
3. Structural Material Legibility
Elevation study
1. Material Order
2. Proximity- Primary / Secondary
Axonometric study
1. Proximity- Material to Program
2. Structural Material (Line/ Point)
Case Study building: GC Prostho Museum Research Center by Kengo Kuma & Associates
This is architecture that originates from the system of Cidori, an old Japanese toy. Cidori is an assembly of wood sticks with joints having unique shape, which can be extended merely by twisting the sticks, without any nails or metal fittings. The tradition of this toy has been passed on in Hida Takayama.
Jun Sato, structural engineer for the project, conducted a compressive and flexure test to check the strength of this system, and verified that even the device of a toy could be adapted to ‘big’ buildings. This architecture shows the possibility of creating a universe by combining small units like toys with your own hands. Hope that the era of machine-made architectures would be over, and human beings would build them again by themselves.
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