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FORM AND STR. OF SPATIAL IMAGE-PERCEPTUAL PRO. BETWEEN MAN AND SPACE - THE DIGITAL NATURE OF GOTHIC - Mustafa Dallı - 208355209
FORM AND STR. OF SPATIAL IMAGE-PERCEPTUAL PRO. BETWEEN MAN AND SPACE - THE DIGITAL NATURE OF GOTHIC - Mustafa Dallı - 208355209
OF SPATIAL IMAGE :
PERCEPTUAL PRO. BETWEEN MAN AND SPACE
LECTURER PROF.DR.AYSU AKALIN
2020-2021 Fall
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NOX Architecture - To develop radical and
vitalist architecture. Art ( inspired by Nature and
NOX Architecture - animalistic, express an artificial ideas ) + Digital Tools =
inner force, and at the same time fully Variable Design Outputs
engage with contemporary technology. URL 3 URL 3
LARS SPUYBROEK&NOX ARCHITECTS
■ Spuybroek was born in 1959 in the Netherlands. He graduated from Delft University in 1989. He
established his office called Nox Architects, which he conducted from 1995 to 2010. He has been
working as a professor at the University of Georgia since 2006. Since 2010, he has been working with
more writer and theorist identity.
■ Speaking of architecture, Nox has an understanding that is highly conceptual, inspired by art and
theories, related to the environment (interactive) and combining them with today's digital technology.
A company that is not eclectic, has a holistic understanding and aims to make symbolic structures.
■ As Spubroek wrote at the beginning of his sympathy book, "we must find a way back to the concept of
beauty that modernism takes from us." In other words, he is a person in search, who discusses today's
modernism, mass production and, in his own words, a "colorless and lifeless" world and in terms of
beauty.
BEAUTY & GRACE
What matters is identifying the ontological turn of beauty, the actual jump
or twist, namely that in the experience of beauty, the parts that make up the
thing are shed or even thrown at you in an absolutely singular form. Parts
that merge into a whole spill out of that whole. Parts that
converge into a whole diverge from that whole.
Conceptually, grace and beauty are equals… it remains at
the core of beauty. Grace is the beauty of actual
movement, but beauty is the movement of Fredrich Schiller (URL 5)
Leonardo Da Vinci (URL 4) the gift.
1452-1519 1759-1805
Beauty as a Gift The Pure Generosity of Sun Beauty exist with others
(Spuybroek, Beauty as a Grace of Charis (URL 25) (URL 26)
2014) (Spuybroek, 2014)
«RADIANCE CAN NOT OCCUR WITHOUT STOPPAGE» For something to exist, there must be the potential for it to
exist with others.
Radiance, in contrast, relates the gift directly to visibility. The sun is the
ultimate model for relating the handing over of an object to the object «Flowers are beautiful because they have formally
showing itself. It is not just a model of visibility and generosity; it assimilated radiance by organizing themselves
is a model of visibility as generosity. radially.»
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Modern Painters-1843
John Ruskin (URL 9)
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(URL 14)
Empathy leads us into bodies, and when we are in that body we can
abstractly adapt and take on form. Empathy is the first stage of
sympathy, and abstraction the final stage: the actual act of mimesis. (URL 14)
VITAL BEAUTY-SYMPATHY-JOHN RUSKIN
■ On the other hand, I would like to continue with the vital beauty concept that belongs to John Ruskin.
Because this concept is an important concept for Spuybroek. And it's actually a concept that forms
the basis of all this gothic ontology work. Ruskin first mentioned this concept in his book Modern
painters in 1843. And although the beauty seen before is expressed in magnificent symmetry,
measures, proportions, proportions, Ruskin speaks of beauty not as forms but as sympathy for
emotions, feelings and living things, vitality, imperfect, naturalness, in short, divine feelings. And
speaking of this, he explains that the two sides of our face do not have a magnificent symmetry, the
mountains do not have perfect symmetry or measure, or the branches of a tree do not elongate in the
same way, but we still feel sympathy for them or find them beautiful.
SYMPATHY Henri Bergson; intuition as
simple, indivisible experience
of sympathy through which one
is moved into the inner being
of an object to grasp what
is unique and ineffeable
within it.
(URL 14)
ALIENATION
1-Human alienation from nature - X Fort Vimieux – 1831 (URL 19)
2-The alienation created by capitalism -
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Karl Marx (URL 21) The German Ideology William Morris (URL23) Arts and Crafts
1834-1896 Movement (URL 24) Bruial At Sea- 1842 (URL 20)
1818-1883 (URL 22)
JOHN RUSKIN
■ Going back to Ruskin, Ruskin is a philosopher, writer, and art critic who lived in the 1800s. He is a person
who has produced a wide range of works from geology to education, from art to architecture, from politics to
botany. Ruskin grew up in a conservative and protective family. And while he received a strict religious
education by his mother in his childhood, literary works were taught by his father. In fact, in his works and
perspectives, we can see the results of this two-headed education he received in his childhood. As in the Vital
beauty example. John Ruskin was also influenced and inspired by William Turner, one of the pioneers of
Romanticism, and his work. Because, while talking about him, he said that he painted light and especially the
power of nature magnificently and that he awakened deeper feelings than looking at a painting.
■ In addition, as I said, Ruskin is a person who believes in nature, the natural and its beauty, and attaches great
importance to concepts such as handicraft-labor-craft, against modernization and mass production. He has
the idea that industrialization and mechanization alienate people. However, the alienation here should not be
perceived as the alienation of human from nature, which Karl Marx mentioned in the German ideology, but
the second alienation mentioned in the book, that is, a mechanization, an alienation created by Capitalism
and industrialization. His ideas deeply influenced William Morris, who is known as the initiator of the Arts
and Crafts movement, and contributed to the birth of this movement.
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE & CHARACTERISTICS
12th century - 16th century.
Born in France, later spread to various countries of Europe.
Gothic architecture emerged with the development of the
Romanesque style.
Developed for the first time is the "Ile de France" region in the
north of France, covering Paris and its surroundings.
The first example of Gothic architecture is St. Petersburg, designed
by French historian and architect Abbot Suger in 1122. Denis
Church.
The name Gothic was first used in the 16th century by the Italian
artist Giorgio Vasari to mean "barbarian" for the architecture
of the Goths that destroyed the Roman Empire.
(URL 12) (URL 13)
John Ruskin pays attention to characteristics of Gothic and Gothic
buildings. But he is not interested in the visible characteristics but he is
interested in arches, the vaulted roofs, the flying buttresses or
grotesque sculptures and also in the unseen characteristics. Ruskin
explains these characteristics in 6 titles. These are;
• Savageness,
• Changefulness,
• Rigidity,
• Naturalism,
• Grotesqueness,
• Redundancy
(URL 10) (URL 11)
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE & CHARACTERISTICS
■ Before talking about Ruskin's gothic characteristics, I would like to talk very briefly about Gothic. Gothic,
as we know, is the name given to the architectural period between the 12th and 16th centuries, especially in
Europe. An architectural trend that was born in France and then spread to Europe, overcoming the
Romanesque style. And for the first time in the 16th century, the Italian artist georgio vasari used Gothic to
humiliate it, meaning "Barbarian", referring to the barbarian Goths who destroyed the Romans.
■ However, Ruskin Gothic studied Gothic architecture during his travels to Venice and wrote these works as
"The Nature of Gothic" in a part of his book called Stones of Venice. In this section he talked about the
Gothic characteristics. We know gothic with its physical features such as pointed arches, rib vaults, pointed
towers, and flying buttresses. However, the characterisites he mentioned here were not visible but rather felt
characteristics. And these characteristics are examined under 6 headings. These; It has been named
Savageness, Changefulness, Rigidity, Naturalism, Grotesqueness and Redundancy. However, since
Spuybroek examines the first three titles in his book, I will talk about the first three characteristics.
SAVAGENESS “Imperfection is not a perfect
design where something went wrong
during the execution of the work”.
Constructed by inhabitants of Northern Europe, the Stone makers and carpenters had a
‘savage’ Northerners. certain independence in their
The production was in cold climate. working process. Gothic cutters and
Ruskin associated the quality of savagery with the " carpenters, journeymen and
wildness " and " ruggedness " of the workers, with the craftsmen could control their own
Gothic stone carvers and carpenters. work.
(Spuybroek,
2014) NOX ARCHITECTS – ECB
(URL 14)
(Spuybroek, 2014)
Piers like snow crystals. All are different, different in size,
but also in different combinations.
Changefulness is the second type of variation, not the
rough variation of savageness, but a smooth or gradual
variation.
CHANGEFULNESS
■ Our second characteristic is changefulness. changefulness is of course a concept related to the
concept of savageness. Because I mentioned asymmetry in structures directly has the concept of
changefulness. But the changefulness mentioned in this characteristic is a softer and more
internally related change. In other words, the variability of the parts is reflected in the whole. When
explaining this concept, Spuybroek mentions that the typology of the columns seen in classicism
is the same. He says it could be elongated - shortened or narrowed in diameter - but still its
typology would remain the same. However, as we can understand when we look at Ruskin's
column plan scheme, each of the plans in Gothic is variable in itself and has different variations
when combined. Spuybroek calls this variability "like a snow crystal".
CHANGEFULNESS
The concept of Rib is heart of Gothic. Because the rib is the vehicle of
changefulness, of smooth variation. ‘ Ribs can be in any position: it can
snap into a casing or touch a window, do anything to make a larger
element or member, spread, knit, splash, intersect. They can be
thick or thin, straight or curved. That is why they are the most basic
members of Gothic. ’
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It is the invention of the rib that allows the Gothic to make all
windows different and new each time they are formed. More
importantly, it is not only the combination of ribs that are constantly
different, they also change themselves each time the ribs meet. In short, the
ribs are not moved by an external force (this joins them) but internally,
which is another way of saying that they are changing
CHANGEFULNESS
■ While talking about changefulness, I would like to talk about the concept of rib used by Spuybroek.
Spuybroek; He calls them the heart and most important member of the Gothic, due to their ability to
bend and twist the ribs, to evolve straight-curved or thin or thick forms. He says that thanks to the ribs,
the windows, walls and vaults are all together, and that these ribs differ in each encounter, that is, in
forming a form or structure. And that's why he defines the concept of rib as the most basic member of
gothic because of its feature that allows changefulness and even provides changefulness.
RIGIDITY
• John Ruskin explains this using a very interesting term: "active rigidity
". Active rigidity is what he calls 'the peculiar energy that gives rigidity
to movement and tension and resistance'. “this rigidity is a form of
action”.
• Movement and activity of figures and structures together on the
structure.
«Things are active, they work, and in doing so they come
together to produce structure.»
NOX ARCHITECTS – D-TOWER
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RIGIDITY
■ Our third characteristic is Rigidity. Ruskin describes the rigidity character as "Active Rigidity".
Spuybroek defines this active rigidity as "the joint movement and activity of elements, forms or
structures on a structure".
■ And in order to explain the subject better, he makes a comparison between Classicism and Brok
architecture and Gothic in this sense. Because a structure was produced in classicism and baroque and
the decoration was done afterwards. However, he says that in Gothic, the decoration constitutes a
structure and the structure constitutes an ornament. In other words, the elements are active in
themselves, but the combination does not have an eclectic style, they come together in a fluent and
natural way. That's why he says that we cannot distinguish between structure and ornament in gothic.
DIGITAL «RADIANCE CAN NOT OCCUR
WITHOUT STOPPAGE»
SAVAGENESS ?
Michael Hansmeyer (URL 29)
(URL 15)
«VARIABILITY OF ALL FIGURES
AND THEIR RELATIONALITY
MAKE THE GOTHIC THROUGHLY
DIGITAL.» (URL 30)
(URL 31)
The richness of figuration, the reversal
of the baroque-fold argument, the
inherent constructivism of
configurational patterning, the equation
of structure and ornament – all that has
still escaped contemporary digital design.
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