Technological maximisation and training of sensual fundamentals in architectural basics course
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HKIA journal: the official journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (香港建築師學報), no.25, 2000, pp. 54-61
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This paper discusses concepts, methodology and experience in teaching an architectural basic course, Architectonics. The course structure and program were based on the recognition of change in current cities and architecture in last 20 years, which was inspired and facilitated by technological innovation. Architectural design innovations are shifting away from the homogeneous mass toward the articulation of categorical building components, and 'dematerialised' modes of assembly. The boundary between architecture, urban design and landscape is blurring. The city is unceasingly remodeled, physically as well as symbolically. Strategies of accumulation, exploitation and territorial expansion have drastically transformed places of living and working. Progress in information and communication technology has built up a virtual space aside of physical space. Such a development requires new concepts and methods in architectural basic education. In the Architectonic studio of HKU, each project is developed as a complex open system, a constantly changing entity, unstable and dispersed in its structure. Technological innovations are studied as conceptual instruments and inspiration to create new spatial forms and new programmes. Some projects, which attempt to experiment using Internet communication, in order to bring together different backgrounds and knowledge effectively and generate inspirations from each other.
(1) Form follows science and technology
(a) Technology
(b) Pattern of the universe
(c) Sustainable development and urban ecology
(d) Building and technology
(e) Architecture and geography
(f) Communication technology and form
(2) Training on composition of architectural forms
(a) New formalism
(b) Focusing on composition of architectural form
(i) Space configuration
(ii) No meaning
(iii) Creative procedures
(iv) Observation
(v) Process
(vi) Accidental
(vii) Distortion
(viii) Layering
(iX) Regeneration
(x) Beyond boundary
(xi) Interpretation
(xii) Medium of expression
(3) Studio projects
(a) Generation of form
(4) Concluding comments
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2000
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en