THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE
BART LOOTSMA
The "electrification take commands" is from 2 tendencies are dominating to the architecture discourse on architecture and technology. It's like representing the large scale on technology innovations in the designing architecture products/projects and it's increasingly on the possibilities of robotics as well in future architecture era. The electrification take commands meant that the new technologies is produce/ create by humans and it's connected between the human body, architecture and nature.
historian
critic
curator in design, architecture and visual arts
a house is not a house
It's means that encounter / enchance the branding of place such like the histories, the culture, the political background and the geographical of landscape. It's like to attract the tourism and retain citizens to visit & experience the place. Architecture is not just a house to live, it's the connection from the environments. Tyrolean house is good example to represent a house but is not a house.
The idea of yellow heart is to give people to experience the space inside and is not a house. It's like to stay at atmospherically space and arrived at a transparent plastic mattress to feel the touch.
Walter pichler is the one of favourite architect his like is a sculptor and illustrator. Mr. Pichler design philosophy is to explore the emotional resonances of architecture and he think a building might tell a story rather than a function. His architecture drawings create a soul not just a plan which means included some art work / images.
yellow heart
The second inspired architect work is le Corbusier was adapted urbanism, architecture and design for the new industries in an evolutionary process and the favorite prototypes is the dymaxion house and The Pavillion de L’Esprit Nouveau. From Bart Lootsma thought designing is not enough, the implementation of schemes and the limitation of undesirable and unsustainable developments are called for it. It's need to communicate with the nature environment and considered part of the idea of landscape urbanism. Architecture is doesn't means only change the site context and they built. It's also need to consideration about the global population, technologies, natural water landscape, urban planning, urbanism landscape...etc.
How is the selective quality work have been done?
Bart Lootsma answer - is to find the office to inspire model to do the demo and formulate own ideas about the mobility to introduce the new technologies.
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BART LOOTSMA
Bart Lootsma is an Dutch Architect, historian, theoretician, critic and curator in the fields of design and the visual arts.
He is also a professor for Architectural Theory and Head of the Institute for Architectural Theory, History and Heritage Preservation at the University of
Innsbruck. He taught several courses in architecture, design, and fine arts at different acadmies of Art and Architecture in Netherlands.
Eletrification Takes Command
Today topic is Electrification Takes Command from Bart Lootsma. He mention about the exhibition Venice Biennale in the year 2014, Elements of Architecture, shows how the elements of building, examples wall, floor, ceiling, window, door, lock and others. He told us about the elements are influenced by computing and the internet slowly evolve to develop a memory and maybe even primitive forms of intelligence. This development is presented as a kind of collective strive, which remains forever unachieved or unfulfilled.
Gelbes Herz
Their work explored the performative potential of architecture through installations and happenings using pneumatic structures or prosthetic devices that altered perceptions of space. Such concerns fit with the utopian architectural experiments of the 1960s by groups such as Superstudio or Archizoom. Taking their cue from the Situationist´s ideas of play as a means of engaging citizens, Haus-Rucker-Co created performances where viewers became participants and could influence their own environments, becoming more than just passive onlookers.
Laika "The Soviet Space Dog
Laika, became the first living Earth-born creature in orbit, aboard Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957. Some call her the first living passenger to go into space, but many sub-orbital flights with animal passengers passed the edge of space first. She died in the flight becuase from the stress and overheating. Her true cause of death was not made public until October 2002, officials previously gave reports that she died when the oxygen supply ran out.
Soul Flipper
Face helmet that is sensitized to react to movements of facial muscle and skin to transmit optical and acoustical signals. Plug it into a window; that couple across the street will know whether you're crying or laughing, so let a smile be your umbrella!
With the soul flipper you can transmit a different kind of information through space, or rather you can transmit information through space in a different way. mixing and matching inputs and outputs.
WALTER PICHLER, "TV HELMET/PORTABLE LIVING ROOM," 1967.
"SMALL ROOM"
Sculpture artist and architect Walter Pichler’s 1967 vision into the future – “TV Helmet/Portable Living Room” and “Small Room” – envelopes the subject, immersing them in an inescapable, intimate media experience. These early, satirical and cautionary future “predictions” of living in a virtual world quite literally capture what it is to be connected and isolated at the same time. His gorgeously designed “Portable Living Room” renders its users victims to a claustrophobic space where technology and the desire for distraction collide. Pichler, a self-prescribed media critic, often played with this dynamic. His pieces hyper-stimulate visual and auditory senses while incapacitating one’s movement or awareness of their real-world surroundings.
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ecoLogic Studio
ecoLogicStudio has been completing phase1 of Simrishamn Regional Algae Farm, for the Osterlen region on the Swedish Baltic Sea. The project has been commissioned by the Simrishamn Municipality and it is currently exhibited to the public in the local Marine Centrum.
EcoLogicStudio plans to incorporate the harvesting and use of algae in a number of areas around the town. "Crane Greenhouses" that resemble upside-down trees are planned for unused ports around the coast. Canopies of ETFE pedals will hold small bags that act as tiny greenhouses for algae production.
Algae will also be grown specifically for food and oil in "Migro Towers" near other lakes and bodies of water. The towers double as relaxing social areas for tourists on hikes and safe nesting areas for birds.
Old barns around the region are imagined to become state of the art algae farming facilities while the natural springs will serve as water filtering gardens that will not only monitor water pollution but even offer spa treatments. Visitors can navigate through algae sites by a connected bike path that doubles as a cross-country ski course in the winter months.
Based on the “ Electricfication takes command” talk by Ar. Bart Lootsma, a historian, critic , exhibition curator, a Eindhoven University graduate with master degree in History and theory of architecture, a home is not just a house to live in, it is like a machine with proper circulation and function inside it, where daily activities can take place inside comfortably.
According to him, architecture in reality need to consider the essence from the surrounding and how the surrounding affect the comfortablity of the interior of the building such as temperature, amount of light, acoustic, etc. For example, in order to enhance the acoustic purposes, a building or shelter with pill form is designed. This pill form shelter has a good sound proof shell that prevent sound transfer into and out of the building, this create a visible boundary for the activity inside and outside the pill. Inside the pill, it is a peaceful and quite environment suitable for reading, whereas the environment outside the pill might be chaostic and busy.
Apart from that, Lootsma also mentioned that Switz architects are living their daily life seriously (pragmatic). This is not really due to their desire towards high vision of life instead its due to their culture of feeling the need of solving the small problems of everyday in order to keep their vision on track.
Besides, living in the world of ever-changing activities, technology, lifestyle, designing a ‘modest’ shelter for human seems to become one of the challenges faced by architects nowadays. Architects are adviced to always keep in touch with and follow the ever-developing world be it in term of culture, technology or social activities. By this way, architects know about the lastest trend and issues faced by the world, thus able to design a structure and solve the problems immediaty.
During Lootsma’s speech, he also highlighted that in the near future of architecture practice, technology and electronic devices will make all work worked fast and fluence. But when designing using technologies, architects no longer be able to create the feeling for the building thus not really be able to meet the needs of the client. This, in fact makes the design lost its value and slowly cause architecture to lost its purpose in the future.
Lootsma also emphasis the importance of symbiosis relationship between human and nature in his speech. Symbiosis is important in the process of maintaining the quality of life and its surrounding nature environment. In this condition, human need to understand ways to blend in lastest technologies and nature in order to enhance the sustainability and protect the nature surrounding.
For example, the creation of Solana Ulcinj project of Montenegro by Lootsma in the year of 2006 which is important locally, nationally regionally and globally. This project shows how man deals with nature, how nature and technology is shaped and how sustainability is defined not only in the sense of protecting the nature but also in the sense of economic sustainability and indication of tourism. The result will be taking to account in the master plan that is currently produced.
In conclusion, according to Lootsma, in order to solve the problems of man-kind and nature, solutions of always balancing each other is important in order to enhance sustainability of nature and buildings.
Question 1:
What are the challenges faced by architects all the time?
The ever-changing world cause continues development in every part of the world. Thus, architects need to always keep in touch with the ever-changing world be it in term of invention of new technologies, trends, and human social activities in order to produce a ‘modest’ design to suit human’s need of that particular time.
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Bart Lootsma
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-born 1957 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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studied architecture at the Eindhoven University of Technology ( 1975-1984).
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a historian, critic, and curator in the fields of architecture, design, and fine arts.
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the chair for architectural theory at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck
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professor at the Institute for History, Theory and Critic in Architecture at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Eletrification Takes Command
His speech covered a very wide range of topics, from the role of housing futures, humane, ecological and environmental, media and technology innovative architecture profit relationship. This is an eye-opening speech that gave me to look back on what may be the world kind of architecture has a great impact. His also show us some example to let us more understanding and clear.
Yellow Heart, 1968 (Haus-Rucker-Co)
Haus-Rucker-Co were a Viennese architecture group founded in 1967 by Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter, later joined by Manfred Ortner.Between the 1967 and 1968 created a series of conceptual devises under the sign of second nature – the fusion of the naturally grown and the artificially created –, with which would have been possible to experiment new sensorial experiences.
The idea that a concentrated experience of space could offer a direct approach to changes in consciousness led to the construction of a pneumatic space capsule, called the 'Yellow Heart'.
Through a lock made of three air rings one arrived at a transparent plastic mattress. Offering just enough space for two people it projected into the centre of a spherical space that was made up of soft, air-filled chambers. Lying there one could perceive that the air-filled "pillows", whose swelling sides almost touched one, slowly withdrew, that is to say the surrounding space appeared to expand, finally forming a translucent sphere and then, in a reverse motion, flowed out again. It was experimenting with new design technologies and the interaction of the naturally grown and artificially generated worlds. At the same time, represent relationship between nature and architecture.
As Haus-Rucker-Co. expanded its presence to New York, the group was invited to show its pneumatic and pulsating polyvinyl chloride weekend house Yellow Heart as an example of plastic architectural exploration in "Plastic as Plastic."
“TV Helmet/Portable Living Room and “Small Room”, 1967(Walter Pichler)
Sculpture artist and architect Walter Pichler’s 1967 vision into the future – “TV Helmet/Portable Living Room” and “Small Room” – envelopes the subject, immersing them in an inescapable, intimate media experience. These early, satirical and cautionary future “predictions” of living in a virtual world quite literally capture what it is to be connected and isolated at the same time.
His gorgeously designed “Portable Living Room” renders its users victims to a claustrophobic space where technology and the desire for distraction collide. Pichler, a self-prescribed media critic, often played with this dynamic. His pieces hyper-stimulate visual and auditory senses while incapacitating one’s movement or awareness of their real-world surroundings.
Pichler also experimented with such hypotheses in the late sixties, most transparently in the works of his “Prototypes” exhibition of 1967. These strange objects critique new media’s ability to induce laziness and atrophy. For Pichler, it seems, media isn’t architecture, and hence he makes it architecture by creating armatures to embody its physical presence.
Upon hearing this speech, only to find many special and interesting things, I have never seen nor heard of. Let me know more about the architecture and more interested in architecture. I very much agree with him appreciate the importance of nature. He mentioned that the building should not be reduced to only the architectural design in order to meet human, and serve them, but also to maintain the natural, but to make it better.
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Nature is an important part of the context in traditional architecture, in general. Architecture responds to local conditions such as climate, geology and seismic conditions. Local building materials and their properties are key in the technical design.
This project is a crucial project in Montenegro which to reincarnate an abandoned salt farm into recreational and sport area which are both ecologically and economically sustainable.
It shows us how use technology is shaped and sustainability that not only defined in to protecting the nature. At the same time, economic sustainability and indication of tourism.
Bart Lootsma
- A historian, critic and curator in the fields of architecture, design and the visual arts.
- A Professor for Architectural Theory at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck and Guest Professor for Architecture, European Urbanity and Globalization at the University of Luxemburg.
- He held numerous seminars and lectured at different academies for architecture and art in the Netherlands.
Electrification take command
If we caricature the dominant architectural discourse on architecture and technology over the last couple of years, it was largely dominated by two tendencies. On the one hand a tendency with Patrik Schumacher as it’s most present representative, which focuses largely on technological innovations in the designing of architectural projects and increasingly on the possibilities of robotics as well in it’s production. On the other, there is the tendency as it was represented by Rem Koolhaas in it’s most interesting form on the 2014 Architectural Biennale in Venice, in which new technologies are seen as largely embedded in the more or less traditional Elements of architecture, which may all become “intelligent’ in some way. Both discourses may contain aspects of a truth as we will see it emerging in the near future. But what does this mean for the relation between architecture and the human body and between architecture and nature?
Patrik Schumacher
Company director at Zaha Hadid Architects,
creating stunning buildings across the globe and making theoretical foundation of a completely new style in architecture
Bart lootsma belive that nature is much more powerful than architecture, so in order to shine and stand out, architecture will have to use geography. There is always a relationship between the geographical and the architectural landmarks.
For an example, Zaha’s buildings in Innsbruck emphasize the geographical landmarks and spectacular events that (may) have happened there or happen there from time to time but are absent and thus invisible most of the time. In the case of the ski jump, it even makes the Bergisel, which normally would not be as spectacular as the events that took and take place there, artificially higher. The funicular turns the climbing of the Hungerburg into a touristic event. Other ways of getting there – by bus, for example - are quicker, cheaper, and have a larger capacity. Both give an existing geography and an existing programme a kind of whirl, like a flag and a banner would do, but they also pimp the spots beyond that. There is an aspect of simulation in them: the artificial slope in the ski jump (used for a large part of the year with a kind of wet Astroturf) and the aspect of turning a funicular up a mountain into a combination of a rollercoaster and a dark ride.
Besides, Bart Lootsma also emphasis the importance of relationship between human and nature. Another project that he share to us - The Solana Ulcinj. A project that show the strength and vitality of the architecture, and improve the quality of environment and quality of life in general.
This Solana Ulcinj stresses the importance of finding new, sustainable symbiosis between man and nature, given that the starting point of the artificial biotope – salt works, which has a unique biodiversity of flora and fauna at the regional level, and plays an important role in the global movements of birds. The project will propose sustainable solutions for the future of the site. During the talk, Bart lootsma said that Solana is incredibly interesting and is important locally, nationally regionally and globally.
The critical issue that is stated how humans, technology and nature interact with each other is an issue on international importance. This is an example project, how man deals with nature how nature and technology is shaped how sustainability is defined not only in the sense of protecting the nature but also in the sense of economic sustainability, indication of tourism.
Bart lootsma did share alot of his opniong about the relationship between technology ,nature and human during the talk. I am very agree that architecture have strong relationship with nature. In my opinion, nature and technology can exist together. Technology changed the way we think, the way we perceive things and even the way we live. Technologys allow us to see things in a different way, it helps us to understand the world better. They create digital environment that helps us to communicate and interact with each other and nature. Technology should be used to bring humankind closer to nature and create a bond between cultural, natural and digital environments. By using technology now a days, architecture will possibly help people to get closer to nature and not push us further apart from it.
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