Modern Details in Meaningful Architecture

Ewelina Gawell and Konrad Grabowiecki
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Ewelina Gawell: Department of Structure Design, Construction and Technical Infrastructure, Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-659 Warsaw, Poland
Konrad Grabowiecki: Department of Architectural and Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, 00-659 Warsaw, Poland

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-17

Abstract: Architecture is the art of shaping space, system, and technology. A close relationship is established between the building and its user, as the facility provides shelter and communicates with the inhabitants by meanings encoded in the form. The reception of architecture occurs through an ideological narrative and the quality of construction and material solutions. Contemporary pro-environmental postulates exert an increasingly clear influence on how architecture is shaped, especially on its aesthetic and semantic solutions. In this context, the article refers to the interdependence between art and technology in shaping the architecture of meanings through detail. The work aims to expand qualitative research on shaping contemporary detail in the context of pro-environmental trends in architecture. The detail was selected based on its clear message—its meaning provides the leading feature of the structure, both in technical (engineering solutions) and semantic (narrative) terms. The article provides an attempt to answer the question of how a semantic detail should be shaped, with the account to contemporary concepts on sustainable development architecture. A synthetic-comparative methodology was adopted; specific groups of completed objects were analyzed in the context of the indicated topics. The conclusions from this part of the work constitute case study guidelines, which was conducted on the example of an original project.

Keywords: structural detail; rational design; interdisciplinary design; material technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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