Fluid state of architecture

Abstract

This paper is focused on the changes in architectural aesthetic criteria from static to dynamic values of both figurative and nonfigurative aspects in contemporary architecture and its cultural context. Fluid state of architecture refers to the notions of constant variability occurring in relations between architecture and contemporary cultural and technological context of globalization. Context of globalization dynamizes everyday perceptual experiences, living conditions and terms of spatial appropriations. Accordingly, new networking phenomena appearing on informational, communicational and spatial levels transform city and architecture into constant process of flows, dematerializing its elements into the new qualities of fluid, variable character. In addition, architectural aesthetic qualities simultaneously shift trough events and effects affirmation over static formal whole in transformation from objective to (inter) subjective aesthetic spatial experience. This paper is based on hypothesis that contemporary architecture is characterized by the loss of object singularity in terms of contextual conditions and assimilation of particular characters into the dynamic character of the whole. Therefore, this paper presents the research of architectural design principles shifting trough dispersion of disciplinary boundaries and boundaries of inner and outer architectural space. In addition, figurative aspects of architectural aesthetic changes reflect in hybridity and typological definition loss. Therefore, such changes become the expression of architectural historical fundaments fading and negation. The idea of this paper is to present how dematerialization of architectural values transforms contemporary architectural space into the complex dynamic system of infrastructure, flows, events and effects. The main idea of this paper is to present the potentials of design principles in produced state relying on aesthetic reading of spaces of flows and dynamisms in architecture of contemporary living. The new cultural phenomena resulting in global technological, political and economic changes are creating the potentials of the new meanings and new aesthetic reading in architecture. Therefore, the dynamic concept of flows is positioned into the spatial perspective as architectural design criteria in response to dematerialization of architectural aesthetical object and perceptual effects overproduction.