DESIGN EDUCATION TRAILER II

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DESIGN EDUCATION TRAILER II

• CREATING COSTUMES FOR MADONNA
• WITH MATERIALIZATION METHODOLOGIES
• Aysen Celen Ozturk
• acozturk_at_ogu.edu.tr
• Eskisehir Osmangazi University
• Department of Architecture
• Eskisehir/TURKEY

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Eskisehir Osmangazi University Department of
Architecture, Eskisehir/TURKEY

• Gallery is used in different hours for different
  projects.

• Studying and presentation studio is used for
  student projects.

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Eskisehir Osmangazi University Department of
Architecture, Eskisehir / TURKEY

• The other studio was designed and constructed by
  ourselves.

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Eskisehir Osmangazi University Department of
Architecture, Eskisehir/TURKEY

• Our design process is developing out of the
  school.

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Eskisehir Osmangazi University Department of
Architecture, Eskisehir/TURKEY

• Our Architectural Schools Magazine is called
  DOXA.

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• This paper discusses how an innovative design
  methodology that encourages designers
  involvement with properties and fabrication
  processes of common materials creates new
  understandings of materiality in general.
• This discussion is based on an examination of
  students work at an experimental design course,
  with the first year of students in 2007-2008,
  namely the Materials in Design Process.
• This course focused on the relationships between
  materials, ideas, and design. It involved
  experimenting in innovative use of traditional
  and new materials and exploring the alternative
  materialization technologies for architectural
  design.

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• The discipline of design demands a reciprocal
  relationship that can move from idea to
  materiality as well as in the opposite direction
  moving materiality to idea.
• The work entailed a considerable amount of
  experimentation and had to allow for the
  possibility of mistakes and even outright failure
  as a necessary part of the learning process.
  Unlike analytical and historical studies, our
  work involved thinking about things to come and
  speculating on the future potential of materials
  not yet widely available.

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Materialization is a mode of revealing.
Figure The corn unit has potential to
Figure. If this corn is exposed to heat it will
reveal its reveal its essence.
essence.

• The purpose of this paper is to examine a design
  methodology. It agrees with the idea that the
  action of making in architecture relates to
  revealing the essence of materials and things in
  general.
• Also, it suggests that this process of revealing
  can happen only through students one-to-one
  experiences with the materials and
  materialization technologies.

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• One may illuminate the concept of tectonics in
  the light of etymology by comparing it with such
  terms as techne, technique, and technology.
• According to Demetri Porphyrios, the Greeks used
  the same term techne for both art and craft as
  they did not distinguish artists from craftsmen,
  generally calling them technites.
• Porphyrios states that techne is frequently used
  as a consept opposite to nature(physis). The
  organized knowledge for production can be
  formulated in order to transform raw material
  into a useful utensil, which reveals the way in
  which it was made in contrast to natural things.

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Martin Heidegger is the philosopher who has
responded most profoundly to the cultural impact
of technology. According to him, techne refers
not only to the activities and skills of the
craftsman. It means also the arts of the mind
and the fine arts. In this sense, techne
belongs to bringing-forth, to poiesis it is
something poetic (Heidegger 1992). In other
words, techne is revealing the essence of the
things but not making or manufacturing that.

• We started our design course by questioning the
  concept of design and of technology and their
  relationship with materials in particular.
• With the help of the concept of techne, we
  started to investigate the physical, mechanical
  and chemical ways of understanding and revealing
  the essence of the materialsthat is,
  materialization technologies.

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• In general, the composite material that emerges
  by combination of different materials or the same
  material in three-dimension is a recent addition
  to the discussions about the relationship between
  design and technology.
• We call the technologies that reinvent certain
  properties of materials for new uses as the
  making technologies (see Diagram 1).

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Diagram 1 Methodologies of Materialization and
Making Technologies.

• Raw Materials
• Fragment
• Component
• Element
• Unit

• JOINING PROFILES
• SEWING
• ADHESIVES
• THREADED FASTENERS
• WELDING
• BRAZING
• LAMINATING
• ..
• SURFACE PROFILES
• TEXTURING
• PRINTING
• PAINTING
• INFLAMING
• ETCHING
• PLATING

BODY
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Design Problem Creating costumes for Madonna

• Architecture has a multi-layered relationship
  with clothing, tailoring, and fashion. From a
  clear parallel between three-dimensional, often
  complicated structures or constructions.
• In this paper we discusses materialization
  methodologies with implication of the design
  problem "Creating Costumes for Madonna" . Madonna
  is merely an image of that problem. We aim to
  create a costume with this image.

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There are considerable overlaps between fashion
and architecture in terms of technique and
material. Fashion designers and architects share
much of the same vocabulary and similar
techniques of construction pinning, darting,
folding, wrapping, draping. Fashion designers
have always been able to achieve complex, often
architectonic garments using fabric.
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Both architecture and fashion are based on the
human body and on ideas of space, volume, and
movement.
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CONCLUSION

• We research and practice innovative use of
  traditional and new materials and the exploration
  of alternative fabrication methods for
  architectural design in our university. We
  suggests that students are rediscovering the
  relationship between design and material.
  Acknowledging that architects are not materials
  scientists but designers.
• The results of our experimental design course
  are important for various reasons. One reason is
  that it explores the making technologies that
  enable students to get a hold on materials. This
  contrasts to the computerized technologies of the
  recent design works.

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• Employing the materialization technologies also
  evolves with design ideas. Humans define and
  design such ideas according to their needs and
  desires. Whereas the design processes
  materialize things, we can call such processes
  materialization of substance.
• In this sense of design, material stands out as
  an illusion that enables us to wonder and explore
  between the possibilities and the realities of
  materials.
• Consequently, the material that is designed
  within respect to the notion of techne (re)shape
  the relationships between the body and the world.

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• The program has included lectures, exhibitions
  and studios intended to orchestrate a dialogue
  that encompassed history, technology, and design.
  
• Our research aims to promote a greater
  understanding of materiality, tactility, and
  fabrication processes not only to allow us to
  better employ traditional materials but also to
  embrace the possibilities presented by new
  materials.

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• Aysen Celen Ozturk
• acozturk_at_ogu.edu.tr
• Eskisehir Osmangazi University
• Department of Architecture
• Eskisehir/TURKEY