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Processes of Creating Space: An Architectural Design Workbook book cover

1st Edition

Processes of Creating Space An Architectural Design Workbook

By Georg Rafailidis, Stephanie Davidson Copyright 2017
254 Pages 437 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 437 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 437 Color Illustrations
by Routledge
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Processes of Creating Space is a workbook for beginning designers that shows how to generate space with user experiences in mind. It explains how to keenly perceive your world and seamlessly integrate architectural representation into your design process. The book uses two main strategies, blending the design process with material processes and media techniques and ‘experiential typologies’ -... Read more
Acknowledgments.  Introduction.  1. Introduction  1.1 Generating/Forming/Rethinking Space  2. Methodology  2.1 Perception  2.2  Control and Chance  2.3 Material Processes  3. Manual of Spatial Processes  3.1 Experiential Assessment of Space  3.2 Survey of Space  3.3 Solid-void Inversion of Space  3.4 Inhabitation and Space  3.5 Structure and Space  4. Manual of Techniques  4.1 Taking Photos of Spaces  4.2 Hot Wire Foam Cutting  4.3 Orthographic Projection and Multi-View Drawings  4.4 Multi-Part Rigid Mold Making  4.5 Slip Casting  4.6 Perspectival Projection - One-Point Perspective Drawing  4.7 Paper Casting to make a Monocoque  4.8 Taking Photos of Scale Models  4.9 Working with Concrete  4.10 Working with Latex  4.11 Planar Structures  Glossary of Technical Terms and Materials.  Bibliography.  Index

Biography

Georg Rafailidis and Stephanie Davidson are faculty at the School of Architecture and Planning, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. They taught previously at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Both practice architecture as Davidson Rafailidis.

"Designing in the first place is thinking and a matter of organizing your creative powers. This book by all means will be helpful in this respect." - Herman Hertzberger, Architect and Professor Emeritus, Netherlands

"Processes of Creating Space provides an intelligent and thoughtful manual for students and practitioners alike, combining both the practical and intellectual studies in an exciting and challenging way." - Rachel Whiteread, Artist, UK

"Not to dismiss the quantity and qualities of all the current means to explore and express architecture, Processes of Creating Space privileges re-enacting site specific discoveries and material media experiences to unfold one’s own personal elements of language as a proper foundation to the complexities of today’s architectures and cultures." - Jacques Rousseau, Architect, Prix de Rome, Montréal, Canada

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