Embedded Spaces– embedding spatial parameters and properties in new products of architecture through an integrated design process.
Ph.d. Dissertation, 2004.
The thesis of the doctoral project can in short form be defined as: The ability to integrate a multitude of parameters and properties in a design product is closely dependent on the structure and concept of the space in which a design process takes place.
PrefaceAcknowledgments 8
How to Construct a Space for Space 12
IntroductionA Path through Space 20
On Doing Architectural Research 34
UnfoldingUnfolding Space 48
A New View on Space 54
Unfold: Hermann Lotze 70
The Culture of Space 86
Design Space 106
InvestigationThree Places of Investigation 124
Framed Space 132
Investigate: The Architecture of R. M. Schindler 162
Outer Space 168
Investigate: Dan Graham 188
Informed Space 214
Investigate: Twelve Steps of Aronoff 234
Design Space in Three Places 242
ConstructionConstructing Embedded Spaces 248
Media 254
Construct: The Virtual Architect 282
Construct: Push 302
Construct: The Blind Architect 312
Construct: SARIE 326
Construct: FIE 338
Structure 348
Construct: Different Rule(r)s 366
Construct: Space Flows 374
Construct: Virtual Tectonics 378
Model 384
Construct: Cumulate Schindler 398
ConclusionConclude: Embedded Spaces 410
AppendixSources
Dansk Resumé 460
The dissertation consists of four parts, which each have a distinct function formulated in text, prototypes, experiments and visualizations. The first part, Unfolding, is a description and discussion of the way we understand and form our concepts of space. The second part, Investigation, has the character of descriptive design theory as a detailed account of how selected architects and designers have used space as a design tool. The third part, Construction, has the character of prescriptive design methodology as an account of the potential use of space in the design process and a suggestion of ways to do so. The fourth and last part, Conclusion, will distill the issues and discussions that have been raised throughout the dissertation and propose three characters of embedded spaces – a performative, a pragmatic and a rhetorical character.
Five components are used to construct the knowledge needed to evaluate the thesis as described above:
1) Space as a phenomenological experience
2) Space as a cultural construction
3) Descriptive design theory
4) Normative design methodology
5) Synthetic spaces generated by digital media
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© Thomas Leerberg, 2004
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