Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Dorit Aviv
A reconsideration of what constitutes the ‘design space’ today from the perspective of thermodynamics is necessary in order to expand the realm of architecture into new domains. Building form is dominated in every era by the technological means that produce it. Today, the ubiquitous representations of architecture on computer screens as a context-less object in an empty virtual Cartesian space inherently ignore the constant energetic exchange between a building, the human body and its environment. These exchanges extend not only to the immediate surrounding but all the way to the cosmic scale of the sky and the stars. A pedagogy that engages architecture students with climate and ecology must therefore develop new tools of representation that embody these multi-scalar relationships. In this article, projects produced by students in the design studio are examined as means to both characterize energy flows and intervene on them. As such, they are not just registers of environmental knowledge and sensory data but a first step in redefining the relationship between architecture and the environment.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.85
Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca
ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0
