System Structures in Architecture / Systemstrukturer i arkitektur

CINARK RESEARCH

The thesis suggests the introduction of the notion of system structure in architectural design as a way to conceptualise a systemic level in architecture and construction that lies between general construction techniques and specific architectural results.

In order to make such a system structure operational, the elaboration of a system structure model seeks on the one hand to analytically grasp and on the other hand to make it possible to actively work with system structures as part of architectural design. Such endeavour has roots in the ambition to bridge an apparent and continuously increasing gap between architectural ideation and the way these ideas are brought to life as real physical manifestations of our built environment.   In line with the so-called systems sciences the book rejects the prevalent scientific view that the degree of detail ‘automatically’ enhances understanding and explanative power of complex phenomena. It establishes the idea of a systems view on buildings and architectural design that through the use of flexible constituent elements facilitates discussion and decision making about how architectural wholes are appropriately put together as assemblages of what the current and future building industry is capable of producing.

By Kasper Sánchez Vibæk