Kasım 2019 – Yaşar Alp Öztürk

Refining the lexicon according to the 4 concepts we have developed in Mapping the Context assignment. Classifying relevant terminology under the title of each concept.

Crustal Structure

Hyperobject_ objects that are more-than-things which are massively distributed in time and place. The things that we don’t see solidly but still they exist. a thing that is: viscous, molten, non local, phased and inter objective, impossible to understand from a single point of view. Scale less, timeless, place less, perceptiveness… As human beings we tend to refuse the things which are not massively visible, but even we refuse some things are continuing their existence with a big massiveness which can’t be perceived with just eyes or one perspective. Hyper objects are exactly the definition of these kind of elements that are separated into endless pieces of perceptions. One example to the hyper objects is a climate change. Climate change is not perceiving solidly by the eye but its there, devastate the world and continuing. Yet because it’s a hyper object we don’t perceive it perfectly and we reject to see its bigness.

Visual Tropes_ a visually figurative or visually metaphorical use of a word or expression that, in this context, is the allegorical references that may share commonalities with the hyper-object that is climate change in order to determine the quasi-hyper qualities of the phenomenon.

Ex: Shadow Analogy

Parameter_ a numerical or other measurable factor forming one of a set that defines a system or sets the conditions of its operation. A limit or boundary which defines the scope of a particular process or activity. Simple set of tools to actualize applications and adaptations in disciplines.

Lithosphere_ Everything that includes the Earth’s crust and the uppermost part of the mantle. The lithosphere’s thickness varies depending on whether you measure the thin new crust on the ocean floor or the old crust of an established land mass. We can make some interpretations and receive information about the soil by observing the behaviors of lithosphere in the face of geological loads.

Elastic Thickness_ the distance between crust and earth. We can interpret elastic thickness as the sensitivity of the soil. When we give an impulse from a specific point, the reaction is changing according to elastic thickness.

Hydrocrustal Structure_ the relationship between lithosphere and water. We can see that water and the dept of lithosphere is controlling each other somehow. In general, the areas which has more relation with water has more elastic thickness so, those areas are more sensitive when they exposed to an impact. This anomaly shows us the indirect effect of water on the capacity of carrying geological loads in every scale.

ECO_Identity

Dichotomy_ a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different. In this context, it can be interpreted as the diversion between the humans and the environment in which it stems from this dichotomy. This dichotomy causes great differences between the perception of humans that do not relate themselves in the newly created environment of the city that they created. By looking at this lens, the elimination of the “dichotomy” serves as an escape from the climatic exigencies.

Planetary Dysphoria_ state of being uneasy about living on a planet that is either its environmental conditions altered or not where the organism is originated from. Planetary dysphoria captures the geopsycho-analytic state of the world at its most depressed and unruhig, awaiting the triumphant revenge of acid, oil and dust. These elements demonstrate a certain agency: they are sentient materials even if they are not fully licensed subjectivized subjects.

Anthropocene_ relating to or denoting the current geological age viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Most of the contemporary issues relating to environmental devastation stem form this era of world history.

Archive_ a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people in this context encompasses the many objects that are present in the now and also are “archived” to be available for interaction in a future time frame. There are many forms of archival behavior including museums, galleries, and storage facilities that choose to store some elements and acknowledge the futuristic possible emergencies.

Utopia & Dystopia_ utopia is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. An ideal, even better than ideal version of the state. It has been used to describe an imaginary world where social justice is achieved as well as the principles that could guarantee it. Utopia symbolizes people’s hopes and dreams. Utopia turns to be synonymous with impossible because an ideal life in a perfect society that it offers appears to be out of reach. Dystopia is an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. Dystopia is a world in which everything is imperfect, and everything goes terribly wrong. Dystopian literature shows us a nightmarish image of what might happen to the world in the near future. Usually, the main themes of dystopian works are rebellion, oppression, revolutions, wars, overpopulation, and disasters. These two contradicting words have a big similarity that both of them show an imaginary world and people with the world and reality.

Desertification_ the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture. The word invokes images of sand dunes blowing over abandoned farms as some irresistible, dark force steadily transforms fertile fields into an inhospitable wasteland.

Global and Planetary_ The global phenomenon mostly considered two dimensionally Earthly surface connection of mostly human activity, hence ”globalization” somewhat a horizontal relationship while Planetary phenomenon is three dimensional relationship of all the elements of Earth, somewhat vertical relationship between all the living and nonliving. It is relevant while concerning climate change because we need to be aware of how the humans which have a global attitude need to alter their perception to include the planetary horizontal relationships inside nature.

Ambiguity_ the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. Not easy to name the answer to a problem so it can be open to discuss. A situation or statement that is unclear and complex because it can be understood in more than one way. Hyperobject is an ambiguous concept that is convoluted and extremely complex. It is hard to understand because of its own scaleless, timeless, placeless character.

Hypertopography

Perspective_ a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view. The position and way in which an observant of environmental data is gathering information through cognition. Collection of activities, tactics, and guidelines that are used to ensure that a system exhibits a particular set of related quality properties that require consideration across a number of the system’s views.

Picture Perspective_ a framed point of view that is reflected visually to the viewer that perceives it. This creates a very narrow and limited perception experience hence altering the visual stimuli to over-abstract information to encompass quasi-everything-ness. The particularies becomes representative of generalities.

Everything-ness_ including every perspective of a condition despite time, place and scale. In this context, it is representative of a goal or imaginary state of perception that humans tend to intent obtaining when conceptualizing climate change emergencies. Many modes of analysis and scales fall short to present the experience of true everything-ness, therefore, providing climate anxiety or alienation towards the environment.

Geopsycho-analytic_ The state of breaking down the parts of a geologically relevant climatic issue in terms of location’s effect on the psychological state of human beings. This analysis is stemming from the most altered or varying geological conditions that affect the human psychic.

Slow Violence_ the degradation that won’t be noticed day by day but accumulates. Climate change can be interpreted as a hyper-object that produces a Slow Violence. Every alteration and transformation happens in both minuscule and gigantic scales, transcending time, place and mediums. Therefore the perception is very gradual and even the extreme changes become slow violence to harm the environment.

Ocular_ of or connected with the eyes or vision that in this context relates to the ocular zooming in or out that abstracts the relationship of scales elements to merely optical allegories. While understanding climate change, the level of perception and degree of resolution should adapt to a different understanding of scale that is more competent than an ocular scale.

Scalar Extremes_ Reaching the high and exceptional degree of state in terms of scale that shift between extreme perspectives. Either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible as regards scale factor. A particularly relevant example is the too close and the too far perspectives when representing the climatic conditions that are in constant change which also this way of thinking harms our scope of understanding.

Framing_ providing an outline or somewhat of a limiting agent that transforms the perception therefore changing the scale of knowledge, view, or information drastically. More often than not in order to understand the whole picture one needs to frame many information to indulge in a better understanding. But in the can of the term environmental exigencies, this is an hyperobject therefore need a better representation of scalessness while also acknowledging the human framed perception.

Quasi-External_ seemingly external but representational and not fully external. This can be implemented as the ocular qualities of the too close scale of satellite imagery that presents itself as external but is truly internal and merely very abstract.

Temporal_ of or relating to time as distinguished from space. The state of being in tune with the passage of time thus may alter, evolve, shift or even dissolve to the movement of time. It is highly fluid and the nowness that produces temporal activities, objects, attitudes are crucial tools for the better understanding the approach to climate change.

Experience of Ecocentric

Climate Anxiety_ feeling of worry which people have about climate change stemming from over-abstraction or excessive generalization of particular events that make humans overly sympathetic. The distress that is produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment.

Particularities_ a characteristic that is distinctive of a particular person or place

; eco, a particular and specific view or knowledge that is related with the environment that a certain scale or perception of an individualistic experience derives that is distinct and particular.

Attention Span_ the length of time that someone can keep their thoughts and interest fixed on something especially around issues concerning Climate change which is in need of a new way of approach that undermine the short attention spans of humans.

Calamity_ a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering. In the context of ecological changes, a great deal of climate change is occurring which must be classified as a hyper-calamity. But many humans have an attitude towards future calamities that undermine and alienate their affects which only serves for the calamity to occur gradually, which still classifies it a calamity.

Observant_ it is how the perceptive individual who is conscious about the effects of daily life towards the slow violence of the hyperobject that is climate change. This approach is possible because they are doing the act of observing in an open and receptive manner that is considering various scales, places and mediums of encounter that must happen.

Vantage Point_ a place or position affording a good view of something in particular the point of reference when observing the phenomenon that is climate change though a perspective. Vantage point, in this context, contains the medium, time, place and scale that the observer is in.

Visual Culture_ is the aspect of culture expressed in visual images. Many academic fields of study this subject, including cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, media studies, which feed the climate change narrative that governs the way of thought that drives us to make gradual decisions that either save or harm the environment around us.

Green_ focusing on the harmful effects to the environment and the awareness of holistic environmental thinking. We can accept the concept of “green” as, any actions or thinking, any acts or attitudes that dealing with the present. The main idea is having a new perspective and think about the present. In that way, we can catch a relation between slow violence and green movement. We can think about green as the opposite of slow violence.

Sustainability_ the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level. Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance. It focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space and the ecosystem at large.

Cyclical Ecology_ rather than simply a fixed set of strategies for a fixed period of time. A more dynamic and iterative view allows for the natural shifting of cultural values and needs to ever-increasing levels of sustainability, which in turn fosters a maturing architectural and urban response. It is a process that can affect every facet of contemporary culture toward attaining a more sustainable future.

Environmentally Conscious_ environmentally being aware of and responding to the surrounding. Having a knowledge and desire to know environment. Showing concern for the environment. Adaptive and responsive towards possible alterations and transformations within the environment that further fluidify the qualities of the said design.

Green Movement_ sometimes referred to as the ecology movement. Including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Moreover, in an architectural perspective, responding to the area, buildings in a sustainable way

Environmentally Oriented_ being concerned about nature and the environment and being in the direction for responding to environmental concerns. It can be distinguished as making these responses for environment as a part of human daily routine. The direction of action is oriented towards what is around us but not particularly us.

Climate Responsive_ it takes into consideration seasonality, the direction of the sun path and solar position, natural shade provided by the surrounding topography, environmental factors such as wind, rainfall, humidity and climate data (temperature, historical weather patterns, etc.) to design comfortable and energy-efficient structures.

Our aim is to conceive the site as a component of the architectural system that we are going to produce in the following stages:
to conceive the site as a multi-layered entity rather than a 2D surface
to conceive the site as an active field rather than a given condition

Phase 1: We are expected to produce a number of 2D maps to illustrate the characteristics of the site that is assigned to us.

Step 1: Choose a number of concepts from ECO-lexicon developed in the studio so far with respect to the specific features of the site. Associate the concepts that we choose from the lexicon with the following conditions that we observe within the site, such as continuity/discontinuity, determinacy/indeterminacy, definite/indefinite, unity/fragmentation, permeability/impermeability, homogeneity/heterogeneity, naturality/artificiality, contraction/expansion, bounded/unbounded, and etc.

We should choose at least 4 concepts for Step-1.

Step 2: Produce a single map with reference to each concept. We should produce at least 4 maps for Step-2.

Step 3: Superimpose a number of maps (at least 2) that we have produced in the Step 1 and create new maps which embody multi-layered information of the site. The new map which produced by superimposition should have its own expression (1+1>2). We should produce at least 4 maps for Step-3.

GENERATING THE SCAPES | earth, water, air, time

Phase 2: We are given a list of operations for “landform” generation. (See “Index” of Landform Genealogy in Allen, S., & McQuade, M. (2011). Landform building. Baden: Princeton University School of Architecture). We are expected to select a number of operations from this list to produce a 3D PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL MAP OF THE SITE with reference to Phase 1. Then re-produce the site by multiplying, superimposing, scaling, or deforming/reforming these operations in 3D.

Step 1: Produce a 3D representational model of the site by applying the operations you have selected from the Index of Landform Genealogy. You should produce one 3D-model for Step-1.

Step 2: Re-produce the site by multiplying, superimposing, scaling, or deforming/reforming these operations in 3D. You should produce at least one 3D-model for Step-2.

Step 3: Explain the genealogical process with diagrams.

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Ay: Kasım 2019

Hybridizing of the Cases

Revision of Architectural Program Proposal

Revision of the Timeline

Revision of the Lexicon

Arch 481| Precedent Analysis 2

Arch 481| Precedent Analysis 1

Architectural Program Proposal

Mapping the Context

Site Analysis

Lexicon_How?