What is Auxiliary Architecture?
Auxiliary Architecture is a kind of material system used to improve an existing situation. An example of a situation which redefined the fence and reduced it to merely embrace the building design; creating a less hostile atmosphere to the surrounding. It also organizes spaces and modulate micro-climatic environments that has already build up contexts in which it is not possible to modify or replace the urban fabric building.
The system is more akin to tree canopies; a differentiated array of membrane patches; construction of additional compression elements, frames or anchor points. Nets were developed as continuous or branching systems; triangular patches in hexagonal arrays.
Auxiliary Architecture is a supplementary to permanent domestic structures. In hot climates, it often provides essential shade, either as stand-alone shelter or as transitional spaces between the cool interior and sun-exposed exterior. It is a history that offers great potential for innovative sustainable solution that require little or no energy.
Projects from OCEAN Design Research
M-Envelope
Steel mesh provides three primary criteria for the M-velope. It provides the self-supporting structures, it also sets out the spatial divisions through the twisted ruled surface logic and finally through the materiality of the mesh a provision of screened conditions initiates a porous visual gradient between interior and exterior conditions.
The membranes further articulate and accentuate the spatial divisions and visual conditions set out by the logic of the steel mesh as a gradient spatial.
Consequently Auxiliary Architecture can provide an integrated approach to architectural design and sustainability. The Auxiliary Architectures research area focuses on performance-oriented research by design, the development of versatile design solutions as well as related design methods that integrate analogue form-finding with advance computational design methods.
Research Question
To what extent can we still talk about a creative process when large and crucial parts of the output are generated by a machine? Can we still claim to be designers when out level of control is reduced?
Suggested Research Question: In what sense are architects still considered designers as their traditional level of control in the designing process appears to be usurped by software in parametric architecture?
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