Architecture
for elments (Gianfranco Moneta, Logica e complessità dell'Architettura)
Structural
analysis
1
Genesis and Form
2
Element like totality
3
The articulation of Element
4
The dissolution of Element
5.1
The architecture of the Wall
5.2
The architecture of the Septum
5.3
The architecture in Depth
1
- Genesis and Form
The
sense of architecture for Elements
derives from the
despersion of built-objects, fragments closed in themselves, equipped
with a specific destination of use, separated from the others by an
emptiness, a space external to the built-object,
but internal
to an associative system, rather than a casual system who connects
them.
Nowadays
recovering
again this extraordinary
form-principle means to make any effort to gain a major concreteness
in the construction of an architecture project, imposing its
recurring relapse in undefindeness, uncertainty and undesignedness.
It
means the re-use of a strong compositive principle, who allows
projecting by putting in relation terminated and therefore manageable
entities (the Elements); thus it allows organizing a constituent
procedure with an its own language.
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– Element like totality
It’s
possible to consider the Element – intended as a fragment of
a
totality – always in all its spatial reality.
The
definition of an Element as a figure in possession of a totality,
leads to surpass the reductive principle which considers the plan as
the only generator of the spatial system. In constituting terms it
has defined the supremacy of the Plan-pattern which, with its
repeatedly, originated the typology of Multi-plan, with evident
indifference to internal spatial articulation.
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– The articulation of Element
In
modern architecture, the Elements take
again the shape of parallelepiped cells made-up by their structural
frames. These structural cells are metaphors of the trilithic
archetype. (fig.A)
Application
of the Elements’ overlapping principle.
(fig.B)
When
a series of Elements
structured on the
knots is accosted, it allows to organize a plan according to opposed
directions, creating a potentially endless mesh.
(fig.C)
Considered
in elevation, the system divides the space in its three dimensions
through a modular scan.
(fig.D)
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– The
dissolution of Element
Each
Element – even the most elementary – can be
disassembled
in further signs: the Septum. The procedure that
“disengages”
the constructing Septums from the wall, emerges as the opposite to
the one who has “loosened” the walls keeping the
angles
intact. In this way, the cell doesn’t reproduce the
permanency
of the angles; the constituent elements (the Septums) result
separated from each other and the relative distance becomes variable:
the configuration is open.
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5.1
– The architecture of the Wall .
The
architecture of the Wall means unitarity of the basic wall element
(the cell), its structural closure
to the outside.
Relationship
with exterior: the continuous surface of the Wall is interrupted by
an hole, a genuine trauma of
the continuity.
The
architecture of the Wall resolves an universality of the organism
through the intervention of the hole, but only on the wall
itself;
the Wall contains and so hides
the organism; the hole
forms a filter which reveals the organism itself
(totally or
partially).
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5.2
The architecture of the Septum
The
open cell, made in such a way to not to
reproduce the
continuity through the walls which doesn’t give
life to
angles, “structurally” places itself in the
opposition to
the previously analyzed closed cell.
Apparently
less complex open cell, links itself directly to
the exterior
through its structural discontinuity.
The
architecture of the Septum materializes itself highlighting
constantly the thickness of the Septum, which can be interlinked
between themselves or not.
The
iteration of Septum represents the fundamental sign.
The
structural (constructive) procedure of the interconnection (and
not the hole in this case), continues from the arch to the concrete
platband, enabling it not to lose sight of Septum’s
predominance (discontinuity) upon the interconnection’s
values (continuity).
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5.3
The architecture in Depth: the overlapping
The
architecture of the Septum overlapping the architecture of the Wall
The
architecture of the Wall overlapping the architecture of the Septum
The
architecture of the Wall overlapping the architecture of the Wall
The
architecture of the Septum overlapping the architecture of the Septum
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