Morphology of the architectural achievement. A methodological analysis of selected morphological systems of the natural and architectural environments

• Autorzy: Prokopska A.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The presented work concerns the principles of knowledge acquiring in a methodological and systems way, as well as the processes of a morphological analysis of the architectural environment. It is dedicated to the methodology of analysis and synthesis in designing spatial architectural systems and assemblies. The object of the analysis and synthesis being carried on is the nature of the complex architectural environments and the level of the modern knowledge on architecture designing. In the considerations concerning the morphology of an architectural environment a trial was taken up to answer the following question: Can systems knowledge deriving from the theory of living systems, praxiology as practical philosophy, informatics and computer science, cybernetics and design methodology help in attaining a harmony and compatibility, as concordance of the natural environment with an artificial environment constituted by the architecture being designed? As a result of such an approach, in the work investigations of architectural objects and of their design processes are presented with the use of a vocabulary applied in the domains of architecture, systems theory, design methodology, praxiology and psychology. Perhaps systems knowledge concerning the nature of the reality is needed, as it is useful for human beings so that their efforts do not so often appear to be vain, because such a knowledge leads to more precisely understanding and managing the environment that is given to us, in all its aspects, among them in the architectural aspect being analyzed. The observations of the morphological features of architectural objects composing architectural environments result in referring the investigations being carried on to the Mendeleev's table (classification) of the elements that is an example, supported by documentary evidence, of regularities appearing in the nature, as principles composing the method being currently defined as the morphological analysis method. The periodic classification of the elements is a morphological interval, or one of many forms of morphological analysis, well known and used in technology, and partly intuitively used in architectural creativity. In this work a description of the structure of the multi-variant process of architectural design and of its elements has been presented, as a praxiological reconstruction of natural processes of architectural design covering the phases from inspiration to realization. These processes, being performed according to the architectural knowledge, are partly also realized according to the designer's intuition acquired during his/her design activity, e.g. the design of a great number of houses. The analysis has been undertaken in order to consider the possibility of a broader, more conscious use of the morphological method or of its parts in architectural design activities. The performed methodological analysis has been limited to selected, already historical architectural and painting achievements of Le Corbusier, and to his hand drawings of various types, as well to contemporary architectural works of P.O. Gehry that show morphological features. The practical purpose of the present scientific work is to confirm an order being read off in the realized achievements and in the design processes of selected architectural objects with morphological features. The general objective of this work is a contribution to improve designing and building social environments of the human being. A social environment can be designed in a greater accordance with the nature and can create a friendly habitat of the man thanks to the development of an evolutionary conception of the method of transformation of designing processes. The ampleness of forms being created according to the morphological method can permit architects to develop their creative activities in the future not for the technology-dependent mass customer, which has no cultural identity, but in conformity with their proper creative individuality and humanistic vision of a well-equilibrated development of the world. The existence of these possibilities has found a confirmation in analyses carried out in the presented work. The application, in architecture design, of the existing systems knowledge and praxiological knowledge, and of the design methodology, does result in enlarging and liberating the creative possibilities of the architect-designer in design processes, also computer-assisted processes. This knowledge can be enriched, among others, by the method of morphological analysis as a design method being validated in practice. The need of a harmonious coexistence in the system of the nature, a part of which we are together with our mind and creative possibilities, is reflected in the carried on in this work considerations on the morphology of the architectural environment.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

morphology of the architectural achievement; architectural design; architectural environment; natural environment; morphological analysis

PL

morfologia architektury; projektowanie architektoniczne; analiza morfologiczna; środowisko naturalne; środowisko architektoniczne

• Wydawca: Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej
• Czasopismo: Systems : journal of transdisciplinary systems science
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: Vol. 7, No. 1-2
• Strony: 3--113
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 136 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Prokopska A.

• Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Town Planning Architecture, Rzeszów Iniversity of Technology, 350959 Rzeszów, Powstańców Warszawy 6, Poland, phone [phone],