TECTONIC (class notes)

SENSES + ENVIRONMENT

• Environment as an extension of body 
• Investigation of body (body-space)
• Implied action 
• operational/ contextual/ sequential/ experimential 
• inhabitation/ narrative condition - dwelling
• function is NOT a space 

Creation of built environment = creation of sensorial environment that body inhabits 

OTHERNESS + SOCIAL

• "work of art implies a bodily interaction"
• presence of other 
• presence through "character"/craft
• "architecture is communication from the body of the architect directly" 

Peter Zumthor - Thermal Bath  (Switzerland)

photo taken from http://valeriehassett.wordpress.com/tag/thermal-baths-at-val/

Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen - Temppeliaukio Kirkko (Rock Church) (Helsinki)

photo taken from http://rosemariejohn.com/2011/02/06/finnair/

Diller & Scofidio - Blur Building (Switzerland)
 
photo taken from http://themodone.com/2010/04/fashion-show-venues-1/

TECTONIC vs STEREOTOMIC

Tectonic      : layering construction/ materials 

Stereotomic : compressive mass to mass

• Scenographic (visual operation) vs Tectonic (act of construction) 
• Ontological vs Representational
• high art (bourgeois) / labor 
• scenographic / thingness
• structure symbolic / structure technical 

Tectonic can consider as a "craft" - "presence of the hand" -