Materiality & Immateriality
“Materiality” in architecture is the meaning that applied use of various materials or substances in the medium of building. Every division of space designed includes the main theme or concept of the structure. It brings out the theme and concept of the design of the elements of construction of the building project. It is a relative term in architecture or used to designate materials which are considered to be virtual such as photographs, images or other materials which are natural.
While some materials can be a combinations of two different materials. For instance of virtual, veneers lamination which are designed with graphical images printed on a timber surface. That’s mean, virtual materials must be also produce with a natural physical substance. Therefore, what separate a virtual material from a natural one is some aspect of the mind and perception as well as a process of representation to produce them. The unique combination of the elements in the design itself makes it interesting. It may also refer to certain design where need to consider of materials used in design and it’s unique in certain project.
Anyhow, the role of material and immaterial elements, both are seem to be important in architecture, as the creation of idea in physical space or psychological space. At the same time, in this topic is also tend to create a new view of architecture, where as a relationship between a understanding of space’s material and the immaterial understanding of space by the building’s user.
But what does immaterial architecture mean, and can we separate the immaterial from the material? “The user decides whether architecture is immaterial. But the architect, or any other architectural producer creates material conditions in which that decision can be made. In conclusion, Immaterial Architecture advocates an architecture that fuses the immaterial and the material, and considers its consequences, challenging preconceptions about architecture, its practice, purpose, matter and use.”
A professor who called Jonathan Hill is interested in
the role of the architect in the history of the immaterial
in architecture. He arguing that the immaterial is as
important as the material, he did exploring in the
meaning of architectural production, and how the
architects have evolved and developed
through the years.
He tends to conceptualized buildings rather than builds them, do works in the immaterial rather than the material. And he once said that “Sometimes a building is not the best means to explore architectural ideas. For him, the best ways for designers or architects to explore more is talk more, write and draw a lot of ideas as well as build. As architects draw buildings and do not physically build them, the work of an architect is always removed from the actual process of building.
In a relation between material and immaterial which implies the symbolism in architecture. The way of approaching to innovations in architecture can be incorporate with both building Materials. The idea of architecture can be enhanced through the this relationships. The efficient of applying of these concepts can brings amazing outputs in a building design.
