Architecture as Technique

Architecture is not only just about drawing or history or designing, it involves math physics and many more complex matters, therefore architecture depends mainly on two matters: material sand technology.

1.Materials:

  • traditional materials: stone, earth, bricks and wood
  • modern materials: Steel, concrete and glass

2.Technology:

  • CAD: computer aided design
  • BIM: building information Modelling
  • Prefabrication: consists on prefabricating constructions with an artificial intelligence that allow to set limits and manage budgets better

Challenges:

  • Stability and instability as formal aesthetic principles. Extreme cantilevers.
  • Structure dissolution with new materials and structural types.

Cantiliver, a protruding volume or beam that is attached to a structure at only one end.

Facilities:

  • Energy networks:
    • Electrical installation
    • Gas installation
    • Photovoltaic system
  • Hydraulic facilities
    • Potable water supply
    • Sanitation facility
    • Fire protection systems
  • Climatic installations
    • Ventilation
    • Heating
    • Air-conditioning
    • Domestic hot water
  • Telecommunications
    • Phone signal
    • TV signal
    • Fiberglass internet network
    • Home automation
    • Safety control
  • Medical installations
    • Medical gas