Digital Ornaments: The Crossover of Digital Technology & Contemporary Ornamentation

The use of artificial intelligence (AI), digital tools and fabrication technologies in architecture has followed a paradigm shift, enhancing its design and construction processes and performances. While it has enhanced the performability and efficiency aspects of architecture, it has removed the aesthetics and symbolism of ornamentation and...

Evolution of Ornamentations in Madrasa Architecture in Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate in Relation to Economic and Political Context: A Study on Façade Ornamentations

Within the Mesopotamian region and Anatolia, one of the most important periods was during the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate. This is especially important due to its role in creating the foundations for Turkish architecture in Anatolia, which was later developed into the popular Ottoman architecture style. Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate architecture is...

The Disappearance of the Ornament

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a significant decline in the use of ornamentation in architecture. Louis Sullivan and Adolf Loos were two architects who had contrasting views on the use of ornaments in the beginning of modern architecture. This research explores how Louis Sullivan's and Adolf Loos' views on ornamentation...

How Co-design Processes Improve Public Space Resilience:: Lessons From Two Urban Parks in the Atacama Desert

With the social, ecological and sanitary pressures on urban settlements<br/>and the public sector being unable to successfully provide such answers<br/>alone, co-design can play a crucial role towards urban transformations<br/>and resilient public spaces. We understand co-design as a process in<br/>which institutional networks of public, private...

The Port-City Portrayed in its Public Spaces: Introducing Micro Biographies of Places

This article aims to extent the notion of port-cities and counter the mainstream narrative that port and city, in cases like Rotterdam, have become disunited by reviewing its public spaces in their unique port-city characteristics. These characteristics can be found by systematic approaching and describing public spaces as biographies of place,...

Culture and Context in Public Space Design: Symbolic ornamentation, local craftsmanship and public participation as a way to enable meaning and affordance

Rapid urbanization and increasing globalization of urban development strategies are resulting in a lack of connection between people and places, and places and their context. Nevertheless, cultural embedding and sense of place have a direct impact on the quality of public space. The purpose of this research is to explore culture and context...

Robotic Restoration: Restoration of stucco ornaments by means of in-situ additive manufacturing

The preservation and restoration of intricate stucco ornaments, which are part of our collect cultural Heritage, is under threat due to a diminishing number of skilled restoration plasterers. The highly physically demanding- and labour intensive nature of this work makes it unsustainable for the human body and advocates for a more sustainable...

The Biographies of Bodily Ornaments from Indigenous Settlements of the Dominican Republic (AD 800–1600)

In this study, we generate novel insights regarding bodily ornaments from indigenous societies of late precolonial Greater Antilles. Previous research has highlighted the sociopolitical role of valuable, exotic, and figurative ornaments, yet there are many gaps in our current understanding of these artifacts. Here, we focus on ornaments from...

Een museum voor het Amsterdamse Bos

An exploration in Visual Semiotics and Phenomenology, to propose India's Entry for the Venice Biennale

The thesis aims to address the Emotional and Cultural void in architecture today. A dialogue between Deleuze’s thoughts on the logic of sensation (as equivalent to Emotion) in art, and thoughts on the interpretation of the nine primary sensations or the Navrasa in the Natyashastra, form its philosophical basis. Deleuze was a famous 20th century...

Reading the space through ornamentation

Canada real is a specific linear site outside of Madrid, occupied by low-income inhabitants. The site is fragmented into 5 sectors; however, in terms of building typology, atmosphere, and culture, it is much more diverse in each of the sections. With the filter of ornamentation as my individual topic, i investigated this strip. ornamentation has...

American Madrassah

This graduation project is a design for an Islamic community centre and prayerspace in New York City, called Park51. The design is an 80 meter high complex surrounded by buildings on three sides. The front facade is situated at a small street in downtown Manhattan (Park Place 51), two blocks remote from Ground Zero. It houses various rooms for...

Delight, The Function of Ornament: An explanation of its relevance

An exploration of ornament

Towards Ornamatics

Computer aided modelling and drafting protocols in combination with new production technologies have contributed to wholly new ways of shaping building elements. Some examples of new techniques, which have recently become very successful in building production and in architectural design education, are: 3D Rapid Prototyping; 2,5D and 3D Milling...