Speaking architecture

Speaking architecture: a semiotic study toward understanding visual communication in architecture

Kamp, Anne (TU Delft Applied Sciences; TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Nottrot, R.J. (mentor)
van der Meel, H.L. (mentor)
Koorstra, P.A. (mentor)
van der Sanden, M.C.A. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Applied Sciences | Science Communication

2018-06-26

Architecture communicates. Through its appearance it can communicate a function, time or place, or some kind of ideal. However, architecture does not communicate with words like humans do: instead, it communicates through a four- dimensional, non-verbal language consisting of forms, spatial organisation and materialisation. The problem is, architecture is usually not designed to communicate but to function and architects are often unaware of the message their design can communicate. In other words: they do not design from a communication perspective. It can, however, be interesting to elaborate on this subject in order to gain a better understanding of communicative meaning in architecture and to design architecture from a communication perspective.

This research connects the fields of architectural and communication inquiry in order to find out what and how architecture can communicate. The outcomes of this research are translated into the design of a multi-interpretational market and event space in Haarlem.

Architecture
Science Communication
Communication
Market hall
Event space
Multi-functional
Multi-interpretational
Case studies
Seagram Building
Grote-of Sintbavokerk
AEG turbine factory
Haarlem
Architectural communication
Vormentaal
Form Language

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2018 Anne Kamp