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The Regional Expression Research Of The Material Of Architectural Skin

Posted on:2015-02-08Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S Y ChanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1262330422481405Subject:Architectural Design and Theory
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It has long been the self-evident fact that architecture has a close relation with its actualregional surroundings as well as the materials making it. In the era of pre-industrial times,nature had been the source of building material, so architecture is naturally matched with itsregional surroundings. However, the great Industrial Revolution had brought along with steel,concrete and glass, which were the main building materials for the early ModernismArchitecture. These architectures were later discarded due to its designing isolation to thesurroundings. But the reflection and revision around this point has long been lasting until now.Therefore, it has gradually been the modern architect’s cultural consensus to integratesurroundings into designing. Unfortunately, the current well-developed consumption cultureand mass media have increasingly intensified a visually oriented thinking model on human,which has accordingly aroused a growing rush for architecture skin research, among whichinfatuation with Picture Collage, digitalization and pure visually centered materials areoverwhelming. And the over-consideration on architecture skin has greatly broken in thedialogue between architecture and environment.Facing those misleading trends, there has been a call to rebuilt the environmentalawareness and to reinvestigate into the very fundamental questions of architecture thatbuilding materials R&D shall take a regional perspective to discover the association betweenarchitecture skin performance and regional surrounding influence, so that architecture can bebetter integrated as part of environment, a way to upgrade building’s beauty appreciation withmultiple connotations of architecture.This dissertation makes a breakthrough of limitation of the previous studies with focuson specific category of building materials. Through a review on historical evolution ofbuilding materials application in traditional and modern architecture both in China andwestern countries, the dissertation investigates on the specific contents of, influential factorsand the influence approaches to material expression, and further explicates the regionalconstituents to adjust architecture compatible to local climate, fit into the pattern of regionallandscapes carrying regional tradition and culture, and finally builds the multi-tier associationbetween architecture and its regional surroundings.Three parts constitute the dissertation with part one to propose the topic in question.Part1corresponding to chapter one as an introduction to the age and academicbackground will firstly address the meaning of building material in the perspective ofarchitecture and culture, and further propose the argument of the dissertation, how to realize the regional expression of architecture skin in the form of better representing architecture withmaterial and integration of architecture into environment. Secondly a various ranges ofachievements among scholars both home and aboard will be presented and ground-basedfeasibility and necessity analysis will be provided. And at last a brief instruction on definingthe research objectives, contents, approaches and frame will be outlined.Part2including chapter2and chapter3will provide a detailed interpretation on thearguments proposed.Chapter2and3serves as the theoretical frame. With industrialization as the timing nodein the course of human civilization progress, this part presents in details the classification andhistorical analysis on the material expression in the time of pre-industrialization of regionalautonomy and that of the machinery and information with a global trend respectively. Thisanalysis will serve as the powerful historical evidence to support the forthcoming bodyinterpretation.Part3covers from chapter4to chapter8with solutions to the arguments proposed.Chapter4is the core theory structure with the historical achievements as the basis andexplicates the technologies, arts, and human civilization contents of architecture skinexpression. It also investigates the influential factors and main approaches of architecture skinexpression and finally based on the regionalism constituents, this chapter will propose threemain approaches namely adjusting to local climate, fitting into the pattern of regionallandscape and associating with the local culture, which accordingly open the followingpractice-centered researches on the theoretical application.Based on the introductions in previous chapters, chapter5,6,7will respectively interpretthe influence from the local climate, regional landscape and local culture with typical casestudies. It is a trial to apply the proposed theoretical thoughts into a specific innovation onregional expression of materials of architectural skin.Chapter8is a summary to the above analysis in this part. With the topic of“Comprehensive Expression of Materials of Architectural Skin under the Holistic Concept”,this chapter will introduce the overall analysis on typical cases, and summarize on influencefrom regionalism, culture and era. It is a further generalization on the theoretical application.The last part of the dissertation serves as the conclusion to present the achievements andmain innovation, and point out what are the aspects expected to be further improved.
Keywords/Search Tags:materials of architectural skin, regional expression, climate, landscape, culture
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