affective architecture

Guanyu Xu “Temporarily Censored Home”

Takefumi Aida 

’ It’s impossible to make architecture move, although i’d like to’ T. Aida

Aida started with ‘silence’ in earlier seventies, toying with ‘playfulness’ metaphor for a series of residential projects structured from images of child’s building blocks. But from mid-eighties onwards, he purposes a system of architectural ordering _ fluctuation_ applying this on its metaphorical usage more than in its physics terms.

Moving from the theory of fluctuation to fluctuating architecture Aida manages the perception of movement created by people’s passage through his work with a carefully controled sequence of unfolding views that the visitors generate as they move.

He has applied this concept of (yuragi) ‘fluctuation’ to civic spaces, mixed-used architectures and to one of Tokyo’s modern sacred sites, theTokyo Memorial Park as you can see on images above.

Europa’s Surface

This enhanced-color view from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Newer fractures crosscut older ones, and several wide, dark bands are visible where the surface has spread apart in the past. 

The scene also contains several regions of “chaos terrain,” where the smooth surface has been disrupted into jumbled blocks of material.

A II (Construction A II) by László Moholy-Nagy, 1924, Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Medium: Oil and graphite on canvas

Richard Long, River Avon Book, 1979, Edition of 106 [Tate, London]