Anonymous Monsters: An Investigation towards New Methodologies of Thinking through Designing in Architecture
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- MCO-UOA32-SM2
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multicomponent output
- Open access status
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- Year
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Anonymous Monsters investigates new ways of thinking about the building design process. The anonymous monster could be the ideas that you consider valuable and inherently fundamental for a building before building it – the scaffolding of thought and the scaffolding of buildings. This scaffolding could become the anonymous support structure that enables but also underpins the monster under construction. By abolishing specific architectural models it creates something more dynamic: ecological design replacement towards ecological forensic investigation, and a shift away from representation towards documentation and the consequences of spatial terrains yet to be explored in practice. We cannot predict the future use of space; it is all speculation. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened by the anonymous monster. The project focuses on the unknown relationships between buildings and working drawings in architecture. These unknowns are becoming increasingly important in the design of buildings. While the use of environmental data is beginning to influence the design process, with Anonymous Monsters the environmental data becomes the design, by developing new architectural scaffoldings from the data in context. This new architectural scaffolding is therefore the architecture before the architecture.
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- Non-English
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