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Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being
Architect Jørn Utzon is known for his devotion to human well-being and his ability to integrate architectural and structural ideas. Yet, discussions in scholarly circles often emphasise his tectonic genius related to sublime formgiving and structural-material experiments. Less attention is given to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9061956/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44150-022-00044-x |
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author | Tvedebrink, Tenna Doktor Olsen Jelić, Andrea Robinson, Sarah |
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description | Architect Jørn Utzon is known for his devotion to human well-being and his ability to integrate architectural and structural ideas. Yet, discussions in scholarly circles often emphasise his tectonic genius related to sublime formgiving and structural-material experiments. Less attention is given to how his sense of empathy and concern for the well-being of users influenced his design process. To address this absence, we explored how training students in a user empathic design process can be integrated in an architectural and engineering design approach. First, we outline a theoretical framework grounded in the 1) scholarship on tectonic thinking by Jonathan Hale and Marco Frascari and 2) cognitive-neuroscientific understanding of how human beings interact with their surroundings in an embodied and emotional manner. Architectural experience is thus co-produced in an on-going meeting between structures, spaces, and human bodies. Secondly, we present a case study of an experiment with storyboarding as a technique to visualize the intangible aspects of designing for well-being and emotional experience. Placing the ‘body’ and ‘experience’ at the center of the design process calls for greater sensitivity to diversities within user groups. We argue for an adjusted tectonic design toolbox focused around translating experiences, emotions, and behaviors as a means of joining user-oriented, architectural, and engineering principles in the early design phases. This paper intends to spark a debate about ‘tectonics of well-being’ and to discuss whether storyboarding as a narrative design tool can help join structural-material genius with socio-cultural realms of human experience in tectonic design. |
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spelling | pubmed-90619562022-05-03 Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being Tvedebrink, Tenna Doktor Olsen Jelić, Andrea Robinson, Sarah Archit. Struct. Constr. Case Study Architect Jørn Utzon is known for his devotion to human well-being and his ability to integrate architectural and structural ideas. Yet, discussions in scholarly circles often emphasise his tectonic genius related to sublime formgiving and structural-material experiments. Less attention is given to how his sense of empathy and concern for the well-being of users influenced his design process. To address this absence, we explored how training students in a user empathic design process can be integrated in an architectural and engineering design approach. First, we outline a theoretical framework grounded in the 1) scholarship on tectonic thinking by Jonathan Hale and Marco Frascari and 2) cognitive-neuroscientific understanding of how human beings interact with their surroundings in an embodied and emotional manner. Architectural experience is thus co-produced in an on-going meeting between structures, spaces, and human bodies. Secondly, we present a case study of an experiment with storyboarding as a technique to visualize the intangible aspects of designing for well-being and emotional experience. Placing the ‘body’ and ‘experience’ at the center of the design process calls for greater sensitivity to diversities within user groups. We argue for an adjusted tectonic design toolbox focused around translating experiences, emotions, and behaviors as a means of joining user-oriented, architectural, and engineering principles in the early design phases. This paper intends to spark a debate about ‘tectonics of well-being’ and to discuss whether storyboarding as a narrative design tool can help join structural-material genius with socio-cultural realms of human experience in tectonic design. Springer International Publishing 2022-05-03 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9061956/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44150-022-00044-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Case Study Tvedebrink, Tenna Doktor Olsen Jelić, Andrea Robinson, Sarah Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being |
title | Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being |
title_full | Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being |
title_fullStr | Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being |
title_full_unstemmed | Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being |
title_short | Stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being |
title_sort | stories of structures, spaces and bodies: towards a tectonics of well-being |
topic | Case Study |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9061956/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44150-022-00044-x |
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