Contigencia en la Arquitectura postsituacionista

• Autores: Ignacio Peydro Duclós
• Directores de la Tesis: Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ( España ) en 2016
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: José Ballesteros (presid.), Luis Rojo de Castro (secret.), José Vela Castillo (voc.), Antón García-Abril Ruiz (voc.), Juana María Sánchez Gómez (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: TEORÍA Y PRÁCTICA DEL PROYECTO
• Materias:
  • Ciencias de las artes y las letras
    • Arquitectura
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  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: Archivo Digital UPM
• Resumen

  • This thesis stems from a simple exercise. Taking the title of the PhD program in which the research is framed, 'Theory and Practice of Architectural Design', the doctoral candidate takes the theory with greater impact of the twentieth century, the theory of relativity, and traces the relationship between the mutations produced in the practice of contemporary architectural design and its creative strategies with the transformations of our understanding of the world introduced by the theory.

    The text traces the links between contemporary architectural practice and the assimilation of scientific knowledge acquired over the twentieth century that have most deeply transformed our understanding of the world. While the theory of relativity serves as organizational foundation of this thesis, the multiplicity of references and influences affecting the modes of architectural creation is diverse and multidirectional. It is assumed that architecture, as a discipline involving cultural creation, digests the knowledge and the interpretations created from other areas of cultural creation with varying degrees of intensity. The undertaken research tries to identify ways in which architecture is facing post-relativistic reality and the way in which the architectural discourse has changed its direction from a discourse based on deterministic stylistic considerations related to rules of employment of Euclidean geometry as a tool of control relative of the arrangement of the various construction elements, to a non-linear discourse that assumes the event as the basic unit of existential reality. Architecture goes from being a discipline of creation of physical objects (buildings) in which the geometric relationships between particular portions define an immutable object, towards an active creative process of complementary strategies of relationship between events and matter arrangement in space-time while remaining in constant evolution, adaptation and transformation. According to this view architecture could be defined as the art of physically delimiting and interrelating events.

    The thesis is organized in three complementary and interrelated research cores that arise from the knowledge acquired from the postulates of the theory of relativity: The first research core focuses its interest in the multiplicity of event happening in space-time and how these have been assumed by architecture as dynamic systems scattered in landscape. As a consequence, architecture drifts its attention towards contingency and the use of the scientific simile of dynamic systems interacting in space-time. While the origin of this shift is the relativistic metric change, the thesis studies the way in which the deterministic functionalism has mutated towards the understanding of the chaotic nature of human activities in relation to scientific principles linked to dynamic systems such as the principle of uncertainty, chaos theory and systems ecology.

    The second research core studies the topological properties of architecture and events¿ limits set by matter arranged in space-time. Matter interrupts space-time, and consequently determines its contingency. This section of the thesis focuses on the topological properties of architectural matter and how topology has been established as the main mathematical discipline applied to post relativistic architectural project beyond Euclidean geometry.

    The third area of study focuses on the fact that any event implies an energy transformation. Energy, matter and contingency are three faces of the same reality. If the relationship between matter and the contingency of space-time is the territory of architectural design, the architect must be aware that by arranging matter and by defining the topological properties of architecture and its environment in space-time is also defining the contingency field of energy exchange processes.