Abstract 2

Techniques and Technology/Temporality and Time


Innovations in technology and materials and their applications in history is what leads to large changes in the way architects design. Defying convention and moving the field forward with new techniques of design is what defines unique architecture. But not only does technology pave the way for new techniques in architecture, individual technological landmarks develop and become more efficient tools. Techniques usually derive from fields not necessarily related to the construction of buildings, but can also be discovered in developments in other professions or even phenomena in nature. Technologies are useful for making the practice and application of architecture more efficient in terms of process, but they may not necessarily be used for design tools. CAD is useful for precisely drawing construction documents, but is not necessarily the best tool to facilitate a creative process as 3d modeling has been used recently. 3d modeling however also runs the risk of being a commonly used tool to quickly illustrate details of form rather than a tool to synthesize a scheme through iterations of design through transformations.
Temporal issues in architecture are generally destructive forces that negatively affect a building, but can also be utilized in the design process. Using two pseudo-scientific interpretations of the properties of time, it can be concluded that paths can be reversible producing an identical effect with a differing directional quantity in the vector, but a process, when inverted, creates a different effect. The process itself is mirrored and thus different, such as a physical state change of molecules. These two methods can be utilized in design in the way of studying the differences in form of an object over time. Through analyzing such changes, design can be influenced to produce unique concepts.