The Architecture of Fluidity: Visualization of the Research Process of Figurative and Nonfigurative Instrumentalisation of the Fluidity Phenomenon in Architecture

Abstract

Based on the research on the phenomenon of fluidity in architecture, this paper emphasizes the importance of connecting theory and practice in expanding the operational knowledge of architectural design, in the contemporary fluid state of intense changes in the context of architectural creation. This poster presents a visualization of the research process that uses inductive graphic narrative in deductive methods of analysis and synthesis of (1) theoretical platform, the interdisciplinary theoretical framework of the phenomenon of fluidity; (2) principles of fluidity architecture; (3) design procedures for instrumentalisation and (4) sets of methodological instruments that include all three levels of architectural creativity function, form and experience. At the same time, the authentic technique of architectural research with drawing and diagram, which shows the original model of thinking and operationalization of knowledge from the domain of architectural theory into the design process, is visualized in this paper. The interpretive graphic narrative analyzed and systematized the sets of characteristic methodological procedures and instruments from the analysis of representative examples of projects of selected leading architectural representatives. The outcome of the integral theoretical-practical analysis is the definition of the flow, the universal principle of both figurative (form and function) and non-figurative (perception and aesthetics) instrumentalisation of the fluidity in the process of architectural design, which is visualized in this paper.