Construction
Constructing Embedded Spaces
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From the investigations into the use of design space, we can now move on and suggest aspects that are essential to its construction.
In the following chapters, I will construct and test prescriptive design methods of embedded spaces, by focusing on aspects ranging from the techniques of real and imagined spaces, to the structures that constitute embedded spaces and the models and metaphors that they construct. I will move from the techniques and media that produce embedded spaces, to the structures that carry it towards its result. A movement that is at the basis for the three aspects I have chosen to focus on – media, structure and model. The media that we choose to construct embedded spaces with, the structures that define the rules and dependencies of embedded constellations, and how we may construct embedded spaces as models and metaphors.
The essential aspects of construction will be suggested on the basis of the first three parts of the dissertation, especially on the understanding of space, as it has previously been unfolded, and the design spaces, as they have been investigated. The three chapters and all the experimental constructions must there be seen as a thematic crossing of the same grounds that have been investigated earlier in the dissertation.
A significant part of these prescriptive design methods will be constructed and tested first hand as experiments, either as proof of concept, video prototypes, synthetic constructions in software or as an overlapping of real and virtual space.
I use the concept of ‘design space’ as a more passive and analytical expression, and the concept ‘embedded space’ as a more active and productive expression of a shared idea – the idea that it is possible to collect, position and manage aspects of design in a constructed space. We can say that an embedded space always is a design space, while the opposite not always is the case. By using the terms ‘embedding’ and ‘embedded’ I want to emphasize the active performative aspect of design space – that the spatial construction is a construction in media with structure and as a model, which is first embedded with objects and operands and later embedded in the final design product. Therefore, embedded spaces are closer to the involved user and to the reflective practitioner regardless of profession.
A predictable result of this focus is that the aspect of technique – the how – will be given more attention than the aspect of content – the what. This is in no way to devaluate content to technique, but rather to acknowledge that the aim of this chapter is prescriptive, and thereby suggestive to how embedded spaces could be constructed, rather than to what they should contain and be constructed for.
The three aspects will first be described and discussed in text, followed by constructions that will use and test the produced knowledge. The constructions are clearly experimental, with no or very little focus on aesthetic aspects. Therefore, they should not be seen as finished works of architecture, but rather as the experimental suggestions that they really are.
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