Enis Aldallal has been practising architecture in the United States since 2011 and is pursuing licensure in the state of Illinois. Before coming to the USA, he practised architecture for six years in renowned architectural firms in the Middle East. He holds an MArch from Illinois Institute of Technology (2011) and an MPhil from the University of Liverpool, UK (2009). His interest in place-specific approaches to architecture supports his research on site-related challenges and how they engage with his architecural designs.
Husam AlWaer is an urbanist with a background in architecture, urban design and sustainability. He is Senior Lecturer in sustainable urban design and evaluation in the School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee, having previously researched and taught at Reading and Liverpool universities. Husam´s work has had considerable impact in academia, practice and in the field of community out-reach. With Barbara Illsley he is currently editing Place-making: Rethinking the Master-planning Process, with contributions from internationally reputed scholars and experts in the field (ICE Publisher, expected 2016).
Soumyen Bandyopadhyay holds the Sir James Stirling Chair in Architecture at the University of Liverpool. Director of the research centre, ArCHIAM (Architecture and Cultural Heritage of India, Arabia and the Maghreb), he has published widely on aspects of Indian modernity and vernacular architecture of Arabia. His recent publications include The Territories of Identity (Routledge 2013, co-edited with Guillermo Garma-Montiel) and Manah: Omani Oasis, Arabian Legacy (Liverpool University Press 2011).
Site and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site making. It is concerned with the need for a renewed understanding of the site in the twenty-first century and the need for a critical position regarding the continued tendency to view the site as an isolated `fragment´ severed from its wider context.
The book argues revisiting the traditional instruments or means of both siting and composition in Architecture to explore their true potential in achieving connections between site and context. Through the various examples studied here it is suggested that such instrumental means have the potential for achieving greater poetic outcomes. The book focuses on the works of twentieth century architects of wide-ranging persuasion – Peter Eisenman, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvaro Siza, Herzog and de Meuron, and Charles Correa, for example – who have strived in quite different ways to achieve deeper engagement with the physical qualities of place and context.
Departing from a reconsideration of the fragment, Site and Composition emphasises the role of the `positive fragment´ in achieving both historical continuity and renewed wholeness. The potential of both planimetric and sectional compositional methods are explored, emphasising the importance of reciprocity between `inside´ and `outside´ – between fragment and the whole, as well as materiality. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book makes vital reading for both researchers and students of architecture and urbanism.
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- The first book to offer a totally integrated and comprehensive approach to the importance of site in architectural design
- Provides students and practitioners alike with the tools and understanding of how to read a site and consequently improve their design
- Case studies from around the world illustrate and support the themes discussed
Preface 1. Introduction: Site and Composition 2. Truth and the Primordial Fragment 3. Site Readings 4. The Planimetric Composition of Site 5. Enmeshed Horizons: Interior and Exterior Spaces 6. Materiality and the Culture of Place 7. Conclusion
Site and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site making. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book makes vital reading for both researchers and students of architecture and urbanism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Chapter 1: Site - Context interrelation(s) Chapter 2: Site at different scales of harmony; fragment-to whole Chapter 3: Planimetric composition of site Chapter 4: Exteriors; Interiors; and the principle of reciprocitym Chapter 5: Site between Materiality and Place Chapter 6: Conclusion
Klappentext
Site and Composition examines design strategies and tactics in site practice and site making. Some design has suffered due to an oversimplification of the definition of site, however many designers try to prospect deeper engagement with the physical qualities of place and the craft of the site. This book approaches the study of the wider significance of site as a crucial issue in the design process. It examines how designers perceive a site physically, in order to address its integration culturally and how this might be explored in both pedagogy and practice.
Divided into five main parts, the book: * focuses on site and context interrelations, redefining these two entities from a theoretical standpoint and discussing their diverse interrelationships as design tactics * explains projection and composition and how site lines can be derived from the physical qualities of a specific place and topographical premises, both in rural and urban settings * discusses the nature of wholeness and fragmentation as a modern phenomena, to achieve a wider understanding of the notions of urban infill and intervention * analyses the reciprocal relationships between the exterior and interior spaces, approaching the site not only from outside-in but also its profound interrelation to the inside-out * studies materiality and how the use of site materials impacts the level of autonomy or dependence and continuity or disjunction of a building Site and Composition provides an understanding of site as an entity that endeavours to achieve interrelationship rather than isolation, inclusion rather than exclusion, completion rather than incompletion. Written in a clear and accessible manner, it makes vital reading for students of architecture.
