Thesis FINAL PROJECT section 03          

Cloud-Architecture. Active Erosion and Disassembly: Games, Cities and Time-off

Faculty: CARLA LEITÃO

In the CLOUD Studio, we will look into a possible future in the design of spaces which takes serious advantage of two inter-related characters: ultra-locality and remote connection. For this, will use two main attitudes of tectonic research: advanced material sensitivity and/or connectivity, and distributed form or protocol.

The research this semester engages speculations on how the future of material specifications might start to unfold together with that of institutions. And how this relationship might increasingly create places and contexts, which are related with physical regions but not be bound by them. Simultaneously, we will take particular care of evidencing the new needs for ultra-local sensitivity for any future spatially built structure.

The main program we will work with is that of the Disassembling of the Event, the imaginable active erosion needed to deal with the structures of temporary spaces that impact urban spaces. We will look specifically at the relationship of games – Olympic Games – and densely inhabited/appropriated spaces.

The context of study/research for the Thesis will be defined by each student, including the time/timeline, which will contextualize potentially emerging classes of materials which architects will take advantage of and help structure specifications for. The studio will focus on finding a particular optimum and optimistic relationship between a potential materially-induced-and-derived environmental/ambient/weather behavior and an event which structure involves an assembly and disassembly process.

Overall, the CLOUD studio allows students to take Comprehensive Design to a whole new level, by researching, speculating, modeling, and evidencing the potential of highly sensitive relationships between material tectonics and assemblies, environmental qualities and programmatic conditions.