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Limit geometries of architectural filters: Precise rationality and poetic emotion

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Abstract

An architectural filter is a porous material construction that regulates transverse visual relationships, and establishes degrees of connection through the intervention of light and gaze. Filtering boundaries display variable proportions of mass and air, which are instrumental to the production of the spatial experience behind the mediation of matter and geometry. A filter's structural system synthesizes geometric relations with the capacity to cause architectural atmospheres, as a result of the active border that is technically precise and sensorially ambiguous at the same time. The text sustains that the emerging atmospheres behind the filter cannot take place without a previous, precise geometric production; the poetic dimension of filtering strategies originates from its capacity to transform the concrete geometry of its contour conditions and controlled material execution into an unexpected atmosphere of emotional and incommensurable qualities.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)222-233
Number of pages12
JournalZARCH
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2021

Keywords

  • Architectural atmospheres
  • Architectural filters
  • Limit
  • Phenomena of interference
  • Visual interference

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