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Performance-oriented architecture : towards a biological paradigm for architectural design and the built environment

Hensel, Michael
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Hensel, Michael. (2010). Performance-oriented architecture towards a biological paradigm for architectural design and the built evironment. FORMakademisk, 3 (1): 36-56. (244.0Kb)
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2010
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FORMakademisk. 2010, vol. 3 nr. 1, s. 36-56  
Abstract
This paper introduces and elaborates a specific approach to architectural design entitled

‘performance-oriented architecture’ based on a redefinition of the concept of ‘performance’

in relation to the discipline of architecture and set within a biological paradigm. The concept

of ‘performance’ evolved out of a series of intellectual efforts that had broad consequences,

bringing about a paradigm shift in the humanities referred to as the ‘performative turn’.

These efforts commenced in the 1940s and 1950s and had significant impact also on the

sciences, deriving what is referred to as the ‘performative idiom’. Here the question is raised

as to what ‘performance’ in the context of architecture may entail. The approach introduced

contrasts previous ones that focused either on questions of representation and meaning in

architecture, or, alternatively that have treated performance as synonymous to function

placed in the context of post-design functional optimisation. Contrasting these previous

efforts performance is here reformulated as a driving concept for design that helps re-consolidate

form and function into a synergetic relation with the dynamics of natural, cultural

and social environments, and in so doing, locate performative capacity - ‘ active agency’ - in

the spatial and material organisation of architecture, in the human subject and the environment

through the dynamic interaction between these four domains. In pursuing this approach

the potential of a close disciplinary affiliation between architecture and biology is examined,

so as to locate a suitable paradigm for performance in the discipline of biology and its various

sub-disciplines, in its various foci and modes of inquiry, and, moreover, in biological

systems.
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