Overlay morphologies

Abstract

This thesis explores a novel architectural strategy that translates natural forms into architectural elements by translating its qualities into architecture such as structure, forms, boundaries, and compositions. By examining Ishigami’s designs and SANAA's work, it appears that they follow strategies such as the abstraction of natural elements into spatial compositions. Ishigami’s approach involves deconstructing architectural elements, overlying operation, and metaphoric aggregation process, while SANAA’s work emphasizes 2-dimensional elements and fluid spatial relationships through the strategic distribution of voids and voids. Each architect’s principles were tested on the other architect’s project to ensure complementarity between the two approaches. They were subsequently tested in the context of a large-scale, solid architecture mass located in different architectural environments, in order to explore the limit of achieving transparency, openness, and fluidity. By reassembling tectonic elements from SANAA metaphorically, the study proposes a methodology that enhances spatial fluidity and porosity within rigid architectural environments.Sarah Hedar, B. Sc.Masterarbeit Universität Innsbruck 202