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Nomadic Design in New Environment

Nomadic Design

Box Nomadic Device pt2

Box Nomadic Device

detail & poetry

1. In this technology era details in designs can take a backseat to getting the overall picture. The craftsman allows architects to construct and incorporate details better in the designs. The craftsmans main purpose was to solely construct and analyze the details giving the architect a way to focus on the constructing. The loss of the craftsman's special attention to detail has caused an increase in cost due to the varieties of materials available now.

2. Each detail has a specific function in creating an overall understanding of the building from various view points of the structure. All details may not all be visible at the same time but still contributes to the understanding for the viewer. After seeing a baibling & its details, the viewer should have a clear understanding of the structure.

3. It is stated that Carlos Scarp's details are expressed in his drawings. His details are intricate in their relationship of geometrical construction, materials and placements. He challenges the viewers senses through structural poetry such as the entrance hospenderia de los disenos

4. Yes. In western building there is not a separation of landscape and building and usually does not form organically. The emphasis is on the building

5. How it is constructed & what is used to construct it. How the buildings are intertwined and connected to each.

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More Refelction

Etymology-refers to carpentry or the craft of carpentry it appears in Greek times in Homer. It alludes to act of Constitution.

Corporeal Metaphor- we understand and structure one domain of experience in terms of another of a different kind. Ex. man Man articulates the world through his body. Man is living corporeal being active in world.

Ethnograpghy-entered present. Ex. Berber House Entire domain organized in terms of sectional displacement and material finish to show upper/dry/human from lower/wet/animals.

Stereotomic-universal presence of nonlinear attitude toward time and also a place making agent

Atectonic-corners and places of juncture that can have a negative effect on solidity of built volumes. Ex. AEG Turbine -corner bastions stop short of supporting roof.



Arch tectonics is both applicable and revelent in our world of global mobilization. It is an integral part of our thinking and we are incapable of thinking with out. This is not possible a majority of the time because of the importance of spatial displacement. We already have established knowledge of it.

Reading Tectonics

Tectonic coming from the word tekan, meaning the art of joining the construction or making of artisanal or artistic product. It's first apperance was in Karl Otfried Muller's Handbuch der Archaologie der Kunst in 1830. Ethnography: the foundation of tectonics. He attempted to change architecture.

The theory of relativity by Albert Einstein states that the Speed of light in a vaccuum is constant and an absolute physical boundary for motion.

Reflections on Tectonics

When thinking about Architecture and how tectonics relates, space plays a very important factor in the two. It's not just the interior space but the exterior space too that comes to mind. And space isn't the thing that connects the two, but it also is the thing that determines the architecture and determines the tectonics.

Typography to me wouldn't at first be considered to go along with this reading, but after thinking about how things were done years ago, it seems it almost should be considered like space. The example from the reading about the man placing a stone down as a marker is a good example of this.

The section about the Berber house is interesting. The way the house is opposite and has the external world on interior. The house becomes a reflection of outside world.

The best quote from our reading. "A space is something that has been made for, something that is cleared and free, namely within a boundary, Greek peras. A boundary is not that at which something stops, but as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its presencing... space is in essence that for which room has been made, that which is let into its bounds. That for which room is made is always granted and hence is joined, that is gathered, by virtue of a location". -pg 22

Technology plays a tricky role in this because on one side it has helped to evolve things but on the other side, people see it as "disturbing".

I do feel that technology should never go against Tradition, no matter how obsolete something may get. It is the progress from which we learn from. "The way in which we anticipate the future defines the meaning that the past can have for us, just as the way in which our ancestors projected the future determines our own range of possibilities". -pg. 24

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