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Communities in discourse and space. Towards a spatial dialectic in gated residential developments
(2015)
This research projects deals with the discoursivity of spatial production.
By looking at contemporary residential development in the city of Istanbul, I will examine the reciprocity of the material production of space on one hand, and social discourses on the other, in order to make a contribution to how physical space can be used as a source of research in urban studies. In real estate marketing social discourses are used as a source of reference for place branding or identity design. Branding concepts therefore relate to how social groups imagine their position or future position in society, imaginaries that are continuously influenced and changed by social dynamics within the city but also from the outside. How such urban identities are formed and it what way they relate to the urban environment is crucial to a wide spectrum of social and cultural science. The constitutive role urban space attains has been described and analysed in much detail. Such scrutiny however has yet to be applied to the visual and communicative forms of engagement, the build environment partakes in the formation and change of social discourses.
Carl Heinrich Ferdinand Streichhan prägte zwischen 1848 und 1884 als Oberbaudirektor maßgeblich das Baugeschehen im Großherzogtum Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach. Beauftragt mit für die zweite Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts typischen staatlichen Bauaufgaben, hinterließ er als Architekt ein zwar nicht sehr umfängliches, jedoch facettenreiches und zumindest regional bedeutendes Werk. Geprägt wurde seine Baugesinnung durch die dem Schinkel´schen Vorbild und einem spezifischen, selektiven Historismus verpflichtete, sogenannte Berliner Schule, der Streichhan zeit seines Berufslebens eng verbunden blieb. Neben einer Würdigung des Oeuvres fokussiert die Arbeit auf das weitgefächerte Aufgabenspektrum eines leitend im Staatsdienst tätigen „Bautechnikers“, das – wie zeitgenössisch üblich – sowohl konstruktiv planende als auch vielfältige administrative Tätigkeiten, ingenieurtechnische Leistungen ebenso wie baukünstlerische umfasste. Streichhans Bildungsweg, Laufbahn und berufliches Selbstverständnis sind für den Baubeamten des (mittleren) 19. Jahrhunderts ebenso typisch wie schließlich, infolge beschleunigter Wandlungsprozesse ab 1871, nicht mehr zeitgemäß: Im Kontext tiefgreifender Umwälzungen veränderten sich auch die Handlungsfelder der Architekten und die Bedingungen architektonischen Schaffens, wie Streichhans Wirken paradigmatisch belegt.
The building sector is responsible for a large share of human environmental impacts. Architects and planners are the key players for reducing the environmental impacts of buildings, as they define them to a large extent. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows for the holistic environmental analysis of a building. However, it is currently not employed to improve the environmental performance of buildings during the design process, although the potential for optimization is greatest there. One main reason is the lack of an adequate means of applying LCA in the architectural design process. As such, the main objective of this thesis is to develop a method for environmental building design optimization that is applicable in the design process. The key concept proposed in this thesis is to combine LCA with parametric design, because it proved to have a high potential for design optimization.
The research approach includes the analysis of the characteristics of LCA for buildings and the architectural design stages to identify the research gap, the establishment of a requirement catalogue, the development of a method based on a digital, parametric model, and an evaluation of the method.
An analysis of currently available approaches for LCA of buildings indicates that they are either holistic but very complex or simple but not holistic. Furthermore, none of them provide the opportunity for optimization in the architectural design process, which is the main research gap. The requirements derived from the analysis have been summarized in the form of a catalogue. This catalogue can be used to evaluate both existing approaches and potential methods developed in the future. In this thesis, it served as guideline for the development of the parametric method – Parametric Life Cycle Assessment (PLCA). The unique main feature of PLCA is that embodied and operational environmental impact are calculated together. In combination with the self-contained workflow of the method, this provides the basis for holistic, time-efficient environmental design optimization. The application of PLCA to three examples indicated that all established mandatory requirements are met. In all cases, environmental impact could be significantly reduced. In comparison to conventional approaches, PLCA was shown to be much more time-efficient.
PLCA allows architects to focus on their main task of designing the building, and finally makes LCA practically useful as one of several criteria for design optimization. With PLCA, the building design can be time-efficiently optimized from the beginning of the most influential early design stages, which has not been possible until now. PLCA provides a good starting point for further research. In the future, it could be extended by integrating the social and economic aspects of sustainability.
Tropical coral reefs, one of the world’s oldest ecosystems which support some of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet, are currently facing an unprecedented ecological crisis during this massive human-activity-induced period of extinction. Hence, tropical reefs symbolically stand for the destructive effects of human activities on nature [4], [5]. Artificial reefs are excellent examples of how architectural design can be combined with ecosystem regeneration [6], [7], [8]. However, to work at the interface between the artificial and the complex and temporal nature of natural systems presents a challenge, i.a. in respect to the B-rep modelling legacy of computational modelling.
The presented doctorate investigates strategies on how to apply digital practice to realise what is an essential bulwark to retain reefs in impossibly challenging times. Beyond the main question of integrating computational modelling and high precision monitoring strategies in artificial coral reef design, this doctorate explores techniques, methods, and linking frameworks to support future research and practice in ecology led design contexts.
Considering the many existing approaches for artificial coral reefs design, one finds they often fall short in precisely understanding the relationships between architectural and ecological aspects (e.g. how a surface design and material composition can foster coral larvae settlement, or structural three-dimensionality enhance biodiversity) and lack an integrated underwater (UW) monitoring process. Such a process is necessary in order to gather knowledge about the ecosystem and make it available for design, and to learn whether artificial structures contribute to reef regeneration or rather harm the coral reef ecosystem.
For the research, empirical experimental methods were applied: Algorithmic coral reef design, high precision UW monitoring, computational modelling and simulation, and validated through parallel real-world physical experimentation – two Artificial Reef Prototypes (ARPs) in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia (2012–today). Multiple discrete methods and sub techniques were developed in seventeen computational experiments and applied in a way in which many are cross valid and integrated in an overall framework that is offered as a significant contribution to the field. Other main contributions include the Ecosystem-aware design approach, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for coral reef design, algorithmic design and fabrication of Biorock cathodes, new high precision UW monitoring strategies, long-term real-world constructed experiments, new digital analysis methods and two new front-end web-based tools for reef design and monitoring reefs. The methodological framework is a finding of the research that has many technical components that were tested and combined in this way for the very first time.
In summary, the thesis responds to the urgency and relevance in preserving marine species in tropical reefs during this massive extinction period by offering a differentiated approach towards artificial coral reefs – demonstrating the feasibility of digitally designing such ‘living architecture’ according to multiple context and performance parameters. It also provides an in-depth critical discussion of computational design and architecture in the context of ecosystem regeneration and Planetary Thinking. In that respect, the thesis functions as both theoretical and practical background for computational design, ecology and marine conservation – not only to foster the design of artificial coral reefs technically but also to provide essential criteria and techniques for conceiving them.
Keywords: Artificial coral reefs, computational modelling, high precision underwater monitoring, ecology in design.
Container sind nicht nur das bei weitem wichtigste Transportmittel für die allermeisten Waren, mit denen wir tagtäglich zu tun haben. Container sind, vielleicht wegen ihrer schlichten, klaren Ausdruckskraft, zu dem Symbol der Globalisierung geworden und vieler Phänomene, die man mit dieser Entwicklung in Zusammenhang bringt. Dabei handelt es sich um ein durch und durch ambivalentes Symbol. Container stehen genauso für die beeindruckende Dynamik des modernen Kapitalismus und den ihm trotz aller Krisen zugrunde liegenden Optimismus wie für die Ängste und Einwände dagegen; gegen die Indifferenz eines rein auf Optimierung ausgelegten logistischen Organisationshandelns und gegen die zwangsweise Annäherung und Angleichung ehedem entfernter Weltgegenden durch die exponentielle Vermehrung der Transport- und Kommunikationsvorgänge. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt im 20. Jahrhundert. Sie untersucht die (Vor)Geschichte und Theorie des Containers als moderner Kulturtechnik und zentralem Bestandteil eines weltumspannenden logistischen Systems. Und sie zeigt ihn als Element eines Denkens und Organisationshandelns in modularen, beweglichen Raumeinheiten, das sich auch auf viele andere Bereiche außerhalb des Warentransports übertragen lässt. Dafür beschreibt und analysiert sie "Containersituationen" in so unterschiedlichen Feldern wie Handel und Transport, Architektur, Wissenschaften, Kunst und den sozialen Realitäten von Migranten und Seeleuten.