Situated structures
pp. 37-52
in: Stuart Grant, Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie, Maeva Veerapen (eds), Performance and temporalisation, Berlin, Springer, 2015Abstract
Seeking to establish architecture and architectural representation as a discourse of time, space and sensory experience, this chapter explores the moments in which architecture transcends its normative static state, becoming an evental act. In so doing, this chapter addresses a void within the theorisation and practice of architecture — the concept of time — and articulates a practice-based research and design mode that engages time-based change. We explore here a "paper architecture' project by student and spatial designer Gemma Loving-Hutchins and analyse three built architectures: the Sounds House and the Gallery for a Bachelor's Bach by architect and academic Amanda Yates; and the Chapel of Futuna by architect John Scott. All four of these various architectures perform time as light casts shadows, tidal shifts are measured, or architectural elements move in response to their event-based environments.
