Quasi Objects of Architecture: Atmospheres and Diffused Urbanity

Cities and nature have historically registered their co-dependence in multiple forms through formations of density, design of their open spaces or through organization of their infrastructure and buildings. This studio researched design potentials of specific modes of space making in the city through considering the architecture of atmospheres. The post-pandemic city has found renewed reasons to address the co-dependence of the city and nature. Considering production of atmospheres brings this operational concern to its spatial aesthetics. Furthermore, by considering buildings and nature as quasi objects our studio projects addressed the direct relation between sensual perception and spatial/ social agency in the architectural construction of atmospheres.

In this studio, students engage with historical research and contemporary design procedures, to produce digital and physical diagrams and models of conceptual parameter for the contemporary project. These operations accentuate interchange between concepts derived from our two referent texts considering atmospheres produced by composite quasi objects in architecture. They address subject/object hybridity in the form of reconceived building envelopes, the organization of space relative to the ecological environments and their temporally transforming social performance. Finally, architecture of atmospheres addresses patterns of eroded stability in ownership, siting, public private space and operations of perceptual sense in what G Bohme calls Aesthetics of felt spaces.