RE-THINKING ARCHITECTURE WITH TRADITIONAL MATERIALS U.TEXAS 2017

University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture (Fall 2017)
Profesor Invitado Eugene McDermott Centennial Daniel Bonilla

“Re-Thinking Architecture with traditional materials, Clay & Bamboo” taller en Bogotá, busca trabajar en uno de los dos materiales que serán estudiados durante el curso: Arcilla y Bambú, ambos materiales característicos de la arquitectura colombiana, profundamente arraigado a sus tradiciones pero ampliamente utilizado hoy en día.

El taller abordara el problema técnico de dos materiales naturales con propiedades, requisitos y posibilidades muy diferentes. Dentro del caso de estudio (arquitectura colombiana), los materiales se analizaran en contraste ya que no solo están separados geográficamente entre sí, sino que también se obtienen de maneras diferentes; uno extraído del interior de la montaña, mientras que el otro se toma de la superficie.

En términos de arquitectura la materialidad implica una diferencia significativa en cuanto a cómo se puede caracterizar: los edificios hechos de arcilla se consideran estereotómicos, mientras que la implementación del bambú pondría al edificio dentro de la arquitectura tectónica ¿Podríamos desafiar la física y producir arquitectura estereotómica con bambú y tectónica con arcilla?

En resumen, el propósito del curso es estudiar una configuración diferente, el contexto arquitectónico colombiano, enfatizando en su capacidad manual.

University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture (Fall 2017)
Eugene McDermott Centennial with visiting Professor Daniel Bonilla

Re-thinking architecture with traditional materials, Clay & Bamboo Studio in Bogota intends to achieve projects with the use of one of two materials that will be studied during the course: clay and bamboo, both local expressions of Colombian architecture, deeply rooted to its traditions but extensively used nowadays.

The Studio will undertake the technical problem of two natural materials with very different properties, requirements and possibilities. Within the Case Study (Colombian architecture), the materials will be analyzed in contrast as they are not only separated geographically from each other, but also sourced in different ways; one mined from the interior of the mountain, while the other raises from the surface.

In terms of architecture, materiality implies a significant difference as to how it can be characterized: buildings made out of clay would be considered stereotomic, while the implementation of bamboo would set the building within tectonic architecture. Would we be able to challenge the physics and produce stereotomic architecture with bamboo or tectonic architecture out of clay?

In summary, the course’s purpose is to display a different setting, the Colombian architectural context, by emphasizing its manual capacity.

Students Work
FORUM by Hanna Bacon and Charles Beckendorf _ Winner of the Design Excellence Award, Fall 2017
Urban Bamboo Forestry by Rebecca Gawron and Naomi Mao
BRCK by Mike White and Eric Mattson
Boundary Elimination by Mingyang Li and Shijie Li
Building With Bamboo by Hugo Reynolds
FORUM by Hanna Bacon and Charles Beckendorf _ Winner of the Design Excellence Award, Fall 2017
Bogotá Headquarters for Urban Agriculture by Stephanie McConnell and James Holliday

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