Oobleck | Sensual Space | Adaptive Architecture Of The Near Future

OoBleck STUDIO - SENSUAL SPACE - ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEAR FUTURE Chee Chung, Leong Tian Jing, Lim

OoBleck

STUDIO - SENSUAL SPACE - ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEAR FUTURE

by Chee Chung, Leong Tian Jing, Lim

Prof. Manuel Kretzer Assi tant Adi l Bokhari

by Prof. Manuel Kretzer

“In any creative medium, there has to be substance for the work to hold up. For example, a piece of music is not an answer. It’s a stimulus. It leads you to thinking and feeling a certain way, which you wouldn’t have done wi thout that particular experience.”

Lebbeus Woods, The Reali ty of Experimental Archi tecture, 2004 Archi tecture, just as about everything else, is subject to continuous change and technological advancement.

In order to remain visionary and challenge the status quo, archi tects not only have to keep up wi th current developments, improve their ski lls for cross-disciplinary collaboration but also be fluent in telling compelling and convincing stories.

Wi thin this studio we wi ll follow two distinctive lines, which wi ll form the foundation for our archi tectural narrative. Line one aims at the macro level, contemporary global challenges or advances and their potential evolution in the next ten to twenty years.

Analyzing these developments, their cause and effect, we wi ll find certain phenomena and consecutively extract a particular si tuation. If the challenge for example were global warming the

phenomenon could be the melting of Siberian permafrost and the si tuation the spontaneous occurrence of sinkholes. In parallel we wi ll look at the micro level, in particular systems and substances, which can change their properties in response to external events, often referred to as smart materials.

Investigating a variety of such materials we wi ll then make our own or adapt existing ones to specific needs. These two lines are finally to be brought together in the form of a speculative adaptive archi tectural scenario, set wi thin a near-future version of the selected context and enhanced by a - part real, part fictional - materiali ty that is capable of responding to changing condi tions.

Equally or even more important than the final design wi ll be the narration of the archi tectural vision and how this story has the strength to enthuse and inspire i ts audience. Just as the imagined future scenario, be i t utopian or dystopian, the narrative should be able to touch and move on a sensual, emotional level and encourage i ts viewers to identify wi th the proposed design.

CONTENT

00 INTRODUCTION 01 EXTREME SENARIO + DOWNSIDE 02 WHAT IF 03 MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION 04 TRANSLATION 05 SITE 06 MASTER PLAN 07 MASTER SECTION 08 MODEL

DEFORESTATION

00 INTRODUCTION

Deforestation defines the removal of a forest or a transformation of forested areas to a non-forest use land such as arable land, pasture, urban use, logged area, or a wasteland.

The loss of trees and other vegetation causes climate change, desertification, soi l erosion, fewer crops, flooding, increases greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and extinction of species.

INEVIDABLE DEFORESTATION

The occurrence of deforestation is inevi table, as the forest provides more than just clean air and oxygen. Urbanization, Mining, Fires, Logging and Agricultural activi ties are the few means of deforestation. Nearly one to four people in the world rely on the forest for their livelihood directly and indirectly. Ironically, the land that we are living in may also be the once-upon-a-time-forest.

01 EXTREME SENARIO + DOWNSIDE If nothing is done 100% BUILDINGS + 0% TREES REMAINING

The sad truth is, we humans, no longer depend on the forest to obtain resource nor rely on trees to provide air. We have come a long way to show that i t is fairly acceptable to live dai ly wi thout trees. Tree-like features can be mimicked artificially through technology. Advancement is the way to continue human civi lization whi le living along a treeless world of wastelands.

02 WHAT IF

deforestation is on demand?

By riding the tide wi th deforestation, we see the removal or relocation of the trees as an opportuni ty to create something new, something interesting. What if the deforestation process is an interesting sight to see, an event that brings people together whi le providing livable spaces at times of increasing human population?

To encourage a new ideology of a deforestation, we look upon the source of life for the forest, the s o i l .

Give a li ttle bi t of moisture; provides nutrient for the tree, give a li ttle too much water; i t drowns the tree.

Absorb every bi t of the water; i t dehydrates the tree, give i t a li ttle nudge; i t disfigures the surface of the forest & Welcome a New Norm of ‘Deforestation’.

To begin wi th soi l, the idea is to research on a material which enhances the tradi tional perspective towards s o i l a s a basic building material.

03 MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION Several materials have been explored before a material was choosen for further experimentation.

Oobleck

is a non-Newtonian fluid wi th the properties of

changing i ts viscosi ty dependent on the applied shear stress.

It behaves like a solid when a constant shear stress is applied to i t, and i t wi ll return to liquid state when li ttle or no shear stress acting on i t.

Squeesing Oobleck

Oobleck At Rest

MATERIAL PROPERTIES O o b l e c k has the revi talization properties in terms of reforming back to i ts memory state dependent on shear stress and water. the adhesive properties of this material is directly proportional to i ts elastici ty properties.

Behavior of O o b l e c k reacting towards repeti tive motion wi th manipulated variable.

Behavior of moving O o b l e c k reacting to different pattern of wire barriers.

From the experiment, materiali ty is translated into archi tecture through a degree of imagination and creativi ty.

04 TRANSLATION

Wi th the application of nature, archi tecture should form by the beauty of nature. The objective is to create archi tecture wi thout predefined forms, and then apply meaning to i t.

one li ttle drop, makes the soi l crawls, It falls, i t raise, i t break through walls. let i t in, embrace the nature law.

Deforestation needed for new development

The material was applied to the soi l

The constant movement of the earth disfigure i t. .

Transformation begins to brings the trees out of place.

New spaces forms when i t touches the surface of other element.

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05 SITE MENDELSOHN STRAßE, DESSAU ROßLAU, GERMANY

traße,

The si te was chosen to portray an imaginary paradigm of the low populated area reaching i ts highest population point.

06 MASTER PLAN SCALE N/A

A3

A2

A1

The new archi tecture settles down when the material has maximized i t surface spend. New transformation wi ll occur when there’s new deforestation happens.

Incidental spaces were formed through the process, archi tecture of the existing are redefined.

A1 Plan

A2 Plan

A3 Plan

R SECTION

07 MASTER SECTION SCALE N/A

Exterior Perspective

Internal Perspective

Internal Forest Perspective

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Model Front View

Model Side View

Model Side View

Model Top View

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