This paper examines thick mapping as a design-driven research method applied in the educational setting of an international architectural design workshop. The workshop brings together 45 students at different levels and fields of education, academics, and practitioners in a collaborative exercise to co-create new knowledge about mobility at railway stations. Participants reinterpret stations as architectures of interchanges through three thematic lenses of investigation: articulation (flows), light & safety (perception), and interfaces (interaction with users). By combining mixed-media drawings with thick mapping practices, the workshop explores the visible and invisible relationships between mobility infrastructure, architectural space, and human perceptions in stations. The contribution of this paper is threefold: 1- to demonstrate how thick mapping can reveal new spatial narratives, creative potentials, and constraints that define mobility architecture and its experience; 2- to illustrate how it provides a deeper understanding of stations by visualising interactions between multiple scales, systems, modalities, agents, and flows; 3- to show how it supports co-design across different disciplines. Thick mapping thus emerges as a critical collaborative method of production linking research, learning, and design in addressing the complexities of mobility architecture.

Despite growing interest in human-building interaction (HBI) studies to improve performance and comfort in building operations, existing architectural design and representation methods primarily focus on static layouts and material forms, overlooking the spatio-temporal, invisible characteristics of interactions. This paper proposes a novel visualization method grounded on affordance theory, dynamic network graphs to computationally model HBI in Grasshopper. Using a multipurpose educational space as a case study, the study illustrates a multilayered workflow that visualizes material components, immaterial affordances, and dynamic multimodal interactions in three programmatic scenarios. Resulting representations and animations spatialize the footprint, distribution, and modalities of afforded interactions in relationship with occupant patterns. This scenario-based, computationally-driven HBI model supports the qualitative assessment and strategic allocation of sensing, actuation, and control interfaces, identifying spatial opportunities and challenges. This study offers an architecturally informed HBI visualization framework to enhance interdisciplinary communication and critical early-stage decisions in designing responsive environments.

Buildings are dynamic environments that change over time to accommodate diverse needs, flows, programs, and activities. The rapid adoption of digital technologies into buildings through ubiquitous computing creates a complex infrastructure of interaction between humans, the environment, and technologies that transform the design and operation of architecture. However, conventional architectural drawings fail to visualize the spatiotemporal dynamics of sensorial environments. This paper explores representations for designing human-building interactions. By investigating exemplary architectural drawings from the early 20th century to contemporary installations, it deconstructs the material and immaterial components of interaction through affordances, flows, footprints, behaviors, sensors, and feedback. Drawings highlight the potentials and constraints of building infrastructures to inform architectural design by representing layers of interactions. This approach addresses challenges related to automation, privacy, centralization, and surveillance in digitalized buildings and helps interdisciplinary collaboration for the critical adoption of technologies to balance human needs and environmental performance.

Student visions on TU Delft MedTech Building for Education & Research in Waalhaven, Rotterdam.

6 Şubat depremlerinin hemen ardından kurulan ODTÜ Acil Tasarım Stüdyosu, afetlere yönelik pratik ve uzun vadeli çözümler üretebilmeyi hedefliyor. Shigeru Ban Architects ve Voluntary Architects’ Network işbirliğiyle geliştirilen Kağıt Masura Evi’ni odağına alan yazarlar, tasarım sürecinden kesitler paylaşıyor.

The aim of the project is to design and fabrication of a wall with a hole in it with understanding, learning from the nature. The living organism which is sea urchin used as a model and processor for the design and fabrication process. Project starts with the hypothetical definition of wall and hole. These two terms really have contrasting characters and creating conflicts within themselves. These contrasts used as a tool for the transformation and mutation of wall.