Interaction of Lines

Interaction of Lines

Knol, E.M.G.

Bier, H.H. (mentor)
Schoonderbeek, M. (mentor)
Hoekstra, F.J. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

Border Conditions Odessa

2011-06-27

The main focus of my MSc3 was based upon an interest in a subject I couldn’t specify at the beginning of my project. It was an abstract subject to research, a lot became clear during the process of research in Odessa. The phenomena of the infrastructural lines in between the city and its harbor and the actual encounters of the city towards the harbor gave an more actualized subject to research. The actual routes at the level of approach, transition, crossing and a parallel projection formed the basic elements of my mappings. The relations in these areas reflected upon the routes were mapped each by a different approach. These mappings related to my theoretical essay by subscribing a way of thinking towards new architectural space and a technique to create these spaces by the act of folding and an iterative process. By pointing out new ‘set of virtual movements’ by using 4 existing precedent locations. The set of virtual movements became limited to one act, the act of folding. This act became the act of actualizing abstract thoughts and interests into architectural space. During an iterative process of folding, relating unrelated elements, order and disorder a program brief full of tension and complexity, the program – dog shelter, hotel, wellness, rabies clinic – were combined into a mixture of new programmatic and social interactions. By the use of a digitalized act of folding, a feedback loop within the iterative process and even more at the level of connecting sections the complexity of the building and its program became at a level where I was able to design architectural space.

border conditions
Odessa
architecture
folding
mapping

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8de9b5be-f398-4905-b0a6-0242739ba680

2011-07-02

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2011 Knol, E.M.G.