Waste Ornament (2019)
article⁄Waste Ornament (2019)
abstract⁄The emergence of computational design and fabrication tools has escalated the potentials of architectural ornamentation to become innovative, beautiful, and highly sustainable. Historically, ornament has been known to express character and reveal relationships between materiality, technological advances, and societal evolution. But ornament rapidly declined in the late 1800s in large part due to mechanization and modernist ideals of uniform, unadorned facade components. However, ornamentation in architecture has recently reappeareda development that can be linked closely to advancements in computational design and digital fabrication. While these advancements offer the ability to create expressive architecture, their potential contribution to the improvement of sustainable architecture has largely been overlooked AugustiJuan and Habert 2017. This paper provides a brief revisitation to the history of ornament and investigates the impact of computation and automation on the production of contemporary ornament. The paper also attempts to catalog examples of how designers have used computational technologies to address the growing criticality of environmental concerns. Moreover, the paper presents the Waste Ornament project, a research platform that critically examines how we can leverage technology to augment the visual and sustainable performance of facade ornamentation to reduce energy use in buildings. Three subprojects are identified as territories for further research into sustainable ornamentation, ranging from material sourcing, to highperformance buildings, to the development of a systematic upcycling process that transforms old facades into new ones. While the examples are not exhaustive, they attempt to interlace the general ideas of waste and ornament by addressing particular issues that converge at building envelopes.
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| Year |
2019 |
| Authors |
Forward, Kristen; Taron, Joshua. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 19:UBIQUITY AND AUTONOMY |
| Pages |
90-99 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
waste-ornament |
