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Pushing the Envelope : Rituals of Extremes in Architecture's In-Betweens Shigemitsu, Jeremy Tomonari

Abstract

This project challenges the understanding of architecture as shelter, division, and environmental separator between human and non-human realms. As architectural practice responds to the ecological crisis with codes, standards, and technologies that perpetuate an incompatible culture of comfort, the project explores how architecture might foster a new paradigm of thermal culture. The project theorizes architecture as a gradient of thermodynamic tectonics that dissolves into the environment. The gradient creates several spaces between in and out, hot and cold, human and non-human. It is in these in-betweens that we might find a life not only comfortable and energy-efficient, but thermally delightful, inextricably social, and ultimately ecological. These are the rituals of extremes in architecture’s in-betweens.

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Title
Pushing the Envelope : Rituals of Extremes in Architecture's In-Betweens
Creator
Shigemitsu, Jeremy Tomonari
Date Issued
2021-12-23
Description
This project challenges the understanding of architecture as shelter, division, and environmental separator between human and non-human realms. As architectural practice responds to the ecological crisis with codes, standards, and technologies that perpetuate an incompatible culture of comfort, the project explores how architecture might foster a new paradigm of thermal culture. The project theorizes architecture as a gradient of thermodynamic tectonics that dissolves into the environment. The gradient creates several spaces between in and out, hot and cold, human and non-human. It is in these in-betweens that we might find a life not only comfortable and energy-efficient, but thermally delightful, inextricably social, and ultimately ecological. These are the rituals of extremes in architecture’s in-betweens.
Subject
liminality; envelope; in-between; thermodynamics; tectonics; thermal delight
Geographic Location
Vancouver (B.C.)
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2022-01-05
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0406149
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80513
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
Copyright Holder
Jeremy Shigemitsu
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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