integrated buildings - the systems basis of architecture

[...]... transformed the design of buildings in that most prolific period of the industrial era This transformation into systems- based design hinges on the native qualities of building systems themselves Each industrially mass-produced system comes with a particular set of requirements and an immutable internal 1 / The Idea of Integration logic, hence “techno-logical.” The act of choosing one of these preconfigured systems. .. The systems go beyond being minimally resolved; they are synergistic to the point of being provocatively elegant It would be trivial to worry about their exact classification 5 6 INTEGRATED BUILDINGS Software: Integration in the Design Process For integration issues to surpass the technology-for-itsown-sake aspect and become celebrated in the design process, they must transcend the nuts-and-bolts of. .. interior The integration potential of systems and subsystems • Chapter 4, The Architecture of Integration.” The integration paradigm and how to apply it: program, intention, critical issues, appropriate systems, and beneficial integrations The importance and use of precedents The example of the Pacific Museum of Flight Part II of this book comprises seven sets of case studies These fulfill the objective of. .. relation- System as Prototype William Le Baron Jenny is credited with the invention of the high-rise building in his 1884 Home Insurance Building in Chicago By bringing together the fireproofed and riveted steel frame, the elevator, and the curtain wall, Jenny composed a method of systems that together constituted a new building type Jenny’s high-rise surpasses the Crystal Palace kit -of- parts or systems- as-hardware... function But although these aspects contribute toward a better building, they do not inherently satisfy the notion of architecture If building components are the hardware of integration, then design can be thought of as the software complement Design establishes the major architectural goals of a project and then directs the process of attaining them The major goals can be described as the “architectural... control presently is Instead of custom configuration like that of the Hong Kong Bank, the predominant model of design has become the innovative selection and interfacing of off -the- shelf building systems With each system or subsystem selection, internal logics must be coordinated with the workings and connection points of other systems The architect is continually manipulating the physical fit, visual... agendas for architects Fortunately, their complementary nature allows for an endless variety of starting places and any number of resolutions At one pole of thinking, for example, there is the architect-as-artist, for whom technology is a means to the higher ends of aesthetic and formal ideals At the other pole, for the architect-as-scientist, design is largely the result of technically optimized and honestly... because of their inherently honest logic and explicit means of achieving well-defined goals This influ- ence emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s along with the study of environmental behaviorism and systems management This systems theory or systems thinking can be briefly described as the management of complex problems through rigorously detailed descriptions of the problem, the establishment of project... discussion of what makes each of them a system is presented in the next section Architectural Systems The building is served and manifestly seen to be served The act of the servicing is seen to be within the architect’s control, even if the details of the servicing are not completely of his design Peter Reyner Banham, describing Marco Zanusi’s 1959–1964 Olivetti factory in Argentina, in The Architecture of the. .. means of achieving a higher end Both frameworks of design-and-technology have, of course, created noteworthy architecture in their time; certainly both employ technical systems in constructing and servicing The difference lies in whether systems are seen as ennobled participants in the conception of building form or rather as liberating machines whose workings are separate from the significance of the buildings . building systems; software: integration in the design process; philosophical digression: integration and the progress of technology; frame- work of discussion. Chapter 2: The Systems Basis of Architecture. expected). An example of risk-taking failure might be the early short- Preface T vii comings of “solar architecture in achieving mainstream status in the eyes of the profession or in the dreams of a large. significant buildings. Critical evaluation of these buildings is not vital- ly important in this text; the buildings were selected prima- rily for ease of unfolding their integration lessons. Nonetheless,