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Part I — The Concept of ‘Temperamental Architectures’ |
Chaos is often seen as antithetical to the ordering paradigms of architecture, which strive to control the sorts of interactions that occur within its boundaries. Beginning with the advent of the modernist movement, these ideas have solidified themselves into the consciousness of the discipline, and in turn, birthed a ‘Phlegmatic State’ of architecture that is highly controlled and static in form and function.
This thesis seeks in turn, to imagine an alternative conception of what Chaos can be to architecture. Here, the thesis wishes to embrace the intersectionality of Chaos (dynamical systems) as two key notions: (i) as an opportunity for architecture to become more adaptable, (ii) and to unravel the potentials of Chaotic notions as a co-author to the development and makings of an architecture.
The move towards a Temperamental Architecture is therefore the thesis’ bid to exit the Phlegmatic State. In positing hypothesized scenarios, these scenarios hope to shed alternative propositions of architectural projections that are not only able to function without attempts to control or suppress but flourish with the presence and intersectionality of chaotic dispositions.
Part II — About ‘Temperamental Architectures & The Authorship of Berlayer Creek Nature Park|
The Subject & Site of Berlayer Creek Mangrove Forest:
In identifying the premise of a Fluctuating environment as a dynamic subject, the mangrove forest of Berlayer Creek became a site of interest for this thesis exercise.
Situated along the peripherals of Labrador Nature Reserve, this 960m linear site features a rehabilitated 5.6-hectare riverine mangrove forest. With its current designation as an outdoor nature trail, the site is also stated to be re-developed into a new nature park that presents a 30m ecological corridor extension into the adjacent Keppel Golf Course.
With the proposed re-development of the site as an upcoming nature park, this thesis thus aims to provide a hypothesized proposition to the organization of the nature park that is conceptualized through the adoption & re-interpretation of the site’s dynamical characteristics.
With only one end that is exposed to the open sea conditions, the site’s dynamical intensities can thus be understood in a gradated manner that corresponds to its linear configuration, changing & decreasing as it moves upstream throughout the entire length of its profile.
As such, this thesis thus deploys a series of intervention fields that induce compositional processes that reflect a necessitated inverse graduated strategy to the site’s dynamical gradient – where the lower the levels of natural dynamism, the greater the levels of active human inhabited participation are involved.
Reflecting two key visions in which the expressions of Temperamental Architecture are conceived in relation to composing a nature park – at its heart is the idea that temperamental architecture is made up of a unique combination of the site as both medium and author, a combination that can shift depending on the peculiarities of both the site and author. This is thus reflected where on one end of the site, interventions have been designed to harness and enhance existing dynamisms to facilitate the processes of cultivating the landscape, and on the other, interventions become catalysts for the emergence of new ecological movements & systems through confronting existing site-specific environmental features.
These two visions demonstrate how broad and different conceptions of temperamental architectures can be as they also further articulate alternative ways to not only talk about the site & its unique dichotomous temperamentalities but also highlight the multitude of possible Temperamental Architectural expressions.
第一部分——“情緒化建築”的概念
混沌常被視為與建築秩序相對立的存在，後者致力於控制建築邊界內的各種互動。自現代主義運動興起以來，這些思想逐漸鞏固在建築學科的意識中，並進而催生了一種“冷靜狀態”的建築形式，其特點是高度可控且在形式與功能上靜態化。
本論文旨在重新想像混沌對建築的意義，試圖擁抱混沌（動態系統）的交叉性，並提出兩個關鍵觀點：(i) 將混沌視為使建築更具適應性的契機；(ii) 將混沌的概念作為共同創作者，參與建築的發展與構建。
向“情緒化建築”的轉變，是本論文試圖擺脫“冷靜狀態”的一種嘗試。通過假設性場景的提出，這些場景希望為建築的未來提供替代性方案，使其不僅能在不抑制或控制的情況下運行，甚至能因混沌特質的存在與交叉而蓬勃發展。
第二部分——關於“情緒化建築與貝拉雅溪自然公園的作者性”
貝拉雅溪紅樹林的主題與地點：
在將波動環境視為一個動態物件的前提下，貝拉雅溪的紅樹林成為本論文研究目標所在。
該地點位於拉布拉多自然保護區的邊緣，這個長達960米的線性區域擁有一片經過恢復的5.6公頃河岸紅樹林。作為一條戶外自然步道，該地點計劃重新開發為一個新的自然公園，並將生態走廊延伸30米，連接到相鄰的凱普爾高爾夫球場。
隨著該地點計劃被開發為自然公園，本論文旨在提供一個假設性建議，構思如何組織這個自然公園，並通過採用和重新詮釋該地點的動態特徵來實現這一構想。
由於該地點的一端暴露於開放的海洋條件中，因此其動態強度可以以漸變的方式理解，這與其線性配置相對應，並隨著水流上游，逐漸改變和減弱。
因此，本論文部署了一系列介入的場域，通過這些介入來激發組成過程，反映出一種逆向漸變策略，這與該地點的動態梯度相匹配——在自然動態較低的區域，則有更多的人工參與。
這反映兩個關鍵視角，即情緒化建築表達的構思方式，與構建自然公園的過程相關——其核心思想是，情緒化建築由地點作為媒介和作者的獨特結合組成，這種結合會根據地點和作者的特點而變化。因此，這在地點的一端有所體現，該處的介入設計旨在利用並增強現有的動態，以促進景觀的培育過程；而在另一端，介入則成為催化劑，通過面對現有的地點特定環境特徵來促進新的生態運動和系統的出現。
這兩個視角展示了情緒化建築的廣泛和多樣的概念，並進一步闡明了如何不僅討論地點及其獨特的二元情緒性，還突顯了情緒化建築表達的多種可能性。
