2020 Volume 85 Issue 775 Pages 1897-1907
Architectural space is, in general, designed beyond the value of merely empty volumes, for it is to receive activities and comprising elements within and without. The notion of beyondness is hard to grasp in building constructions; text descriptions by architects entail their design intensions in detail in remove of construction feasibility. This research will examine coincidental values that are beyond structural integrity in the form of building descriptions in which construction feasibility is transcended by design intentions.
The flow of this research is as follows:
1. Subject of this research is 1,701 samples from the text descriptions where architects refer to properties beyond structural integrity in architectural magazine, Shin-Kenchiku during 1950-2017.
2. Extract the sentences that contain 3 kinds of key-elements: Structural Element, Operation, Gained Property. Structural Element is the word described as building components that resist weight and external forces. Operation is the word described as the act to structural element by the designer. Gained Property is the word described as an action caused by operation.
3. The relationships between Structural Element & Operation and Operation & Gained Property are analyzed in correspondence.
4. Based on the tendencies of correspondence analyses, frameworks of semantic contents are derived. By using them to make a matrix to identify aspects of coincidental values with building system and categorize them into types to provide insights and draw conclusions.
Through the investigation of the matrix between Structural Element, Operation, and Gained Property, 27 different types of coincidental values with building system were identified. As a ingenuity to create added values with building system by designers, six main points are found; 1. multifaceted pursuit of structural integrity by designers, 2. satisfaction of user requests by structural element, 3. consideration of third party circumstances, 4. acquisition of material property by independent existence of structural element, 5. acquisition of synergistic property by existence of structural element as a contact point for existing environment, 6. occurrence of a phenomenon where there is no structural elements being considered.
As a effect of coincidental values with building system, four main points are found; 1. elimination of surplus by avoidance of complexity, 2. omission of architectural component by structural element taking a role of functions, 3. adaptation to the surrounding events of the architecture, 4. expression of contradiction by structural element with mechanical limitations.
Based on the above, the designers consider events such as construction, industry, existing environment, and own ideas as the basis of design, and adjust the symbiotic form with the outside of the design and nonstructural components target by three methods; independent existence, dependent existence, non-existence of structural element. In addition, the designers lead contradictory properties and impressions to the architecture by not only to pursue structural integrity from various perspectives, but also to consciously deny structural integrity. It is, thus, clarified that notional affirmation and denial of consistency were created as coincidental values with building system by designers' physical adjustment of symbiotic relationship.
