EXPERIMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE
Experimental Architecture by Peter Cook |
Lebbeus Wood | Architecture without Architecture by Simon Sadler
Dosen Mentor:
Endy Yudho Prasetyo ST, MT
|Adinda Smaradhana 3211100055 | Ibnu Surya Ramadhan 3211100012|
|Anggita Triastari 3211100044|
WHY DOES EXPERIMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE EXIST ?
It all started in modernism movement (when actually
just about time, where this writings most are written
on modernism era), where people become too 'serious'
(statement) everything must be seen to be useful
and everything must be seen to be consistent
The Walking City
Definition of experiment itself, which is based on
problem and effort then experiment was define as
a product of the problem. (what people need
/industrialized) -- production
And those people (e.g :Archigram, Lebbeus Wood,
Academician – student) got an increasing feeling of
And then architecture will define as an operational dissastification with the role, the constraints, and the
(which is bring us back to the definition of formal mythology of most architecture
architecture as a physical object and talking
a b o u t b u i l d i n g ' s c o m p o n e n t ) And then, come the experiment activities. But... we
are already in a paradoxical situation. The principles
is when we want to do an experimental architecture
Sadly, it has been growth into powerful culture. we have to experiment out of architecture.
People nowadays still discuss about clever structure
and new forms when they see an exepriment on
architecture (this is why experimental architecture
How ?
and do an experiment on architecture are
t w o d i f f e r e n t t h i n g s ) Well, we have to latch this all back to the fix of nationality
or heritage, or orthodoxy, or an identifiable starting point.
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Innovators have three choices
DOES EXPERIMENT
· Place their work in the extra architecture context
· Forge gradual evolution out of mainstream
= INNOVATION ?
· Set up a cradle of reference for their work and concerned
only with its own values (values upon object is traditional
and it is non-experimental) Why it is not an object ?Because, any experiment that goes
beyond more technical investigation may incorporate motives
that are potentially more dynamic than physical result.
Experiment seeks to supplant one kind of value by another
it seeks to improve one kind of object by substituting another
in fact it seeks to redefine, re-expose, to extend.
The starting point was, architecture is not a physical object. “are we to consider only things which are
When we see its form, it is just a logic consequence from ideas. physically experimental or programmatically
exeprimental, or can there be an experimental
made up from the underlying argument
even though to the man in the
street the building looks very ordinary ?”
---ABSOLUTELY!
Like when we're talking about glass house or Buckminster
Fuller's dome, it is more than just a physical result. There is still
something to work out about transparency: the idea that it is
there and then not there. For some of us, dome is just too plain
but as an idea (reason and argument behind its physical result)
it is extraordinary.
Buckminster Fuller
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“reality is a lovely place but I wouldn't live there”
– The Real World by Owl City
We are interest in some lost movements against current
movement in architecture that [Link] all got similar statement
which is perhaps their true values (to do an experimental
architecture) was only as an outburst against the greater wave
of rational economicand componented building. It may also be
that to build in these ways was too expensive. They were The Exodus - Rem Koolhaas
experimental in that, despite some historical origin, they needed
extreme inventiviness to make them possible and they all looked
unlike anything done before .
When we are talking about its build ability, technology
advancement make it possible enough. But then, here comes So that is why in an experimental architecture's word, they made
the conflict; reality. their own rules. There was nothing wrong to define architecture as
an event (plug-in city). Or architecture as a gold cage (exodus –
rem koolhas). And valid rules were based on their concept and
argument of architecture itself .
What is the purpose of this experiment ?
What is the real use of it ?
They made it valid because they did study and research activities
(and yes it is happen in reality nowadays, like some issue come from
a social change; but it is not a necessarily part of its avant-garde)
that combine with a logic assumption in the future. Without it,
THEN WHY SOME OF IT ARE experimental architecture is inconsequential .
UNBUILDABLE ?
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SO MAYBE SOME REASON
WHY EXPERIMENTAL ARCHITECTURE EXIST ?
1 It contented that architecture should not create fixed volumes of space,
but must provide the equipment for “living”, for “being”
2
Or, as simple as make a better quality of life. Not make architecture better
behaved, but to make architecture change life. And in the progress, they
did it radically by imagining an utopian situation where architecture is just
for architecture's sake.
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