SPACE CONDUCTIVE Data Culture | New Human Medium | Dr Mathew Emmett AADipl BSc [UCL] RIBA ARB 01 INTRODUCTION: Data - Architecture 02 PRACTICE – LED RESEARCH: Acquisition Spatial Data – Psychoclimates 03 PERFORMANCE: Demonstration 04 Q/A me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 1
01 INTRODUCTION In June 2016 Emmett performed at the opening of new Switch House at Tate Modern. Emmett is currently collaborating with the renowned electronic musician/artist Eberhard Kranemann (ex Kraftwerk). Emmett composes soundscapes for the contemporary dance choreographer Adam Benjamin with performances at the Tokyo Art Centre, Japan, ПРОТЕАТР Inclusive Dance Festival, Moscow, and the Place, London. Further collaborations include KINETICA, i –DAT, Estranged Space, Perception Lab, Charles Jencks, Kaos Theatre, and the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Sites. Emmett has a doctorate in situated cognition, studied at Central Saint Martins, The Bartlett School of Architecture and The Architectural Association and in 2007 he attended the Karlheinz Stockhausen composition course in Germany. me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 2
YRM ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS | London Urban Design: University of the Commonwealth Healthcare: St Thomas Hospital Aviation: Terminal 5 Malaysia London London Yorke Rosenberg Mardall YRM | London Designing Future Healthcare Global Design Project: Architectural and urban planning services across Europe. Founded in 1946, working within System Driven Design Multidisciplinary team: the modernist tradition with an emphasis on simplicity, integrity and quality, the work covered Patient-focused • Clinician-led ARUP sectors including: • • Promoting health & wellbeing Richard Rogers • • Complex facilities Airports - Airport planning and terminal design BAA • • • Simple and rational layout Passenger Terminal Design Corporate - Office buildings and campus planning • • • Healthcare - Hospital buildings and campus planning Positive & affective humanity Airside Design & Capacity • • • Airport Commercialism Industrial - Logistics and technology buildings and • • Estate planning Lifestyle - Arts, hotel, residential, retail buildings and estate planning Design for Movement • • Science and Technology - Data, new media and pharmaceutical buildings Passenger flow • • Interchange design • Demand analysis • Facilities programming • Client interface • 35 million passengers a year • me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 3
CHARLES JENCKS | International Landform Projects Portrack: Garden of Scientific Speculation Imperial War Museum North | Studio Libeskind Beijing Olympics: Landforms Portello Park, Milan New Urban Park: Portello Park, Milan me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 4
02 PRACTICE LED-RESEARCH The Problématique Most architects would generally understand the interpretive meaning of space, nevertheless many architectural projects have been designed without detailed knowledge or understanding of spatial perception or the consequential psychological impact that may arise from encountering the buildings. This gap in architectural knowledge and the need to develop a disciplined setting to overcome this deficit, together with tackling the notion of space-blindness, provides the foundation of my research. me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 5
QUESTIONS | Defining the field - Within our consciousness of architectural space, what constitutes self-awareness and the formation of reality? - Where is the boundary between physical reality and the plane of immanence* ? - How do we manipulate reality in order to find the schism between architectural space and inner perception? Immersive experience *World of pervasive virtualities, becomings and multiplicities that intersect (or knit together), which are affective, variable, in a state of flux, that emerge as a product of various forces in play in the milieu, composed and recomposed by individuals and collectives. (Deleuze, 1970, 127-8) me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 6
METHODOLOGY | Para-Architecture & Estrangement The prefix “para-” critiques the limitations of architectural functionality by interrogating how architecture changes our behaviour resulting in alterations in perception, mood and consciousness. To be effective the methodology must be critical and exert the capacity to dislocate us by its refusal and inability to become part of the conditioned service. Estrangement creates the conditions for defamiliarization – alienation effect* Ascott, R Bachelard, G Ballard, J.G. Bateson, G Baudrillard, J Brennan, T Clark, A Deleuze, G Dunne, A Ebeling, S Edensor, T Foucault, M Freud, S Gibson, J.J Kroker, A Lewin, K McLuhan, M Merleau-Ponty, M Noe, A Pallasmaa, J Piaget, J Rhowbotham, K Spiller, N Stockhausen, K Von Foerster, H * Coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956), The use of direct audience-address is one way of disrupting stage illusion and generating the distancing effect. In performance, as the performer "observes himself", his objective is "to appear strange and even surprising to the audience. He achieves this by looking strangely at himself and his work". John Willett, ed. and trans., Brecht on Theatre (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964), 92 me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 7
HYPOTHESIS | Psychoscapes and neo-noir environments Emmett defines architecture in terms of emergent forces, that of perception and territorial affect. Architects are highly predisposed to create order and stability, protecting us from chaos, but Emmett strikes against this, making space ring dissonant*. And in this disjunction, punctures a hole to establish the void for the virtual. This is the architecture of expanded media, super spatial senses, scission experiences and otherworldly chimera. Emmett: Neo-noir Ballardian psychoscapes “Coefficient of adversities” - Gaston Bachelard uses this term to define more precisely the relationship between the body & the objects of the world/and or between two different aspects of phenomenon. me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 8
PROJECT 01 | ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope profiling Para-architecture can be structured and influenced by event and situations different from our own implying different sets of cultural and aesthetic values – closer to heterotopias* – it assumes architectural associations as it manifests itself at its most complex and noticeable within interior spaces “distanced from reality, forced by reality” (Vidler, 1992). The ARP bunker has the capacity to eliminate all superfluous stimuli in order to isolate particular kind of phenomena, record and analyse them in order so as to introduce them into other contexts or to manipulate them into new combinations. *Michael Foucault “Of Other Spaces” (1967) me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 9
PROJECT 01 | ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope profiling To examine the nature/rules/conditions of how space is perceived. me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 10
PROJECT 01 | ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope classification matrix Cognitive_tope classifjcation matrix Revonsuo’s model Phenomenal Presence Duration Intensity Quality of consciousness consciousness (Revonsuo, 2006) Components of Experience Expression Cognition Physiological Behaviour emotion (Butler & McManus 1998) Dynamic space Tempo Force Syntax Proportion Direction values Friction typology Felt_space taxonomy EXPERIENTIAL EXPRESSION COGNITIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL BEHAVIOURAL of signal transduction DYNAMICS ACCENT ATTENTION INSTINCT INTUITION me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 11
PROJECT 01 | ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope diagram Exteriority Physical space Psychological space Spatial sequence Zone of influence Axis of movement Culture attitudes & Direct cognition Extended sense Memory & projection Environment Haptic ideologies Locus of perception interiority MICRO - SPHERE MESO - SPHERE EXO - SPHERE MACRO - SPHERE Time Spiraling nebulous me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 12
PROJECT 02 | WW2 USAAF Anti-submarine Airfield, Dunkeswell: Cognitive-tope mapping Mapping as a means of exploration, reframing static principals of architectural representation to include time and the transmission of perception. me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 13
Project 02 | WW2 USAAF Anti-submarine Airfield, Dunkeswell: Situated Cognition Mapping 15.00 15.10 15.20 15.25 15.35 15.40 15.45 15.50 005 005-03 005-06 005-01 005-02 005-04 005-05 005-07 005-08 007 007-01 007-02 007-03 007-04 007-05 007-06 007-07 007-08 3 1 2 1 2 4 1 1 010 1 2 1 010-01 010-02 010-04 010-05 010-06 010-07 010-03 010-08 me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 14
Project 02 | Vection Builder: Perceptual Recombination, Roman Baths Vault me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com 15
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