Fear is a factor that is more and more taking visible influence in nowadays architecture.
And it is playing an important role when building in disaster prone areas. Disasters
are turning into the design regulations of future house planning and building codes of
escaping further limit the design. This world of design is not driven by humans but it
is driven by the idea of catastrophe. As humans we have produced an artefact that is
purely caused by the consequence of apocalyptic fear and disasters. While the impacts
of a hazard influence the design of a building significantly, there is an architecture
to each disaster emerging. This paper proposes a design that is based on an accurate
study of prototype housing to withstand during a disaster and an accumulation of all
possible escaping systems. Every single element hosts information of size, application,
usage to demonstrate a new monumental building typology: through the composition
of the extracted components by questioning the original application and relocating it
in a different context and also abstracting and scaling the original form. The emerging
building consists of familiar shapes yet are now placed in a context opposed to their
origin. This peculiar hybrid is placed at Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles, a rather
disaster prone site, where all selected hazards apply. The building reflects the reality
where it is originally coming from but showcasing a possible future building typology
of already existing elements in a yet to discover environment.
And it is playing an important role when building in disaster prone areas. Disasters
are turning into the design regulations of future house planning and building codes of
escaping further limit the design. This world of design is not driven by humans but it
is driven by the idea of catastrophe. As humans we have produced an artefact that is
purely caused by the consequence of apocalyptic fear and disasters. While the impacts
of a hazard influence the design of a building significantly, there is an architecture
to each disaster emerging. This paper proposes a design that is based on an accurate
study of prototype housing to withstand during a disaster and an accumulation of all
possible escaping systems. Every single element hosts information of size, application,
usage to demonstrate a new monumental building typology: through the composition
of the extracted components by questioning the original application and relocating it
in a different context and also abstracting and scaling the original form. The emerging
building consists of familiar shapes yet are now placed in a context opposed to their
origin. This peculiar hybrid is placed at Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles, a rather
disaster prone site, where all selected hazards apply. The building reflects the reality
where it is originally coming from but showcasing a possible future building typology
of already existing elements in a yet to discover environment.
Faculty: Prof. Peter Trummer, Dr. Jordi Vivaldi Piera
