Translations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in design

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dc.contributor.advisorCoetzer, Nicen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAllderman, Sarahen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-25T13:49:23Z
dc.date.available2017-01-25T13:49:23Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractMy interest this year was an architecture based on experience and how the architect rationalizes the complexities of the ineffable. With experience being such an intangible phenomena, whilst architecture is such an intransigent material, the process became about how to translate the one to the other through the process of drawing. By using Table Mountain as a site for exploration, the intangible experience of dwelling on the mountain was studied as an experience to be translated into architecture. This was explored through a process of cognitive and architectural drawings; ephemeral to tectonic details. The disser tation follows the process of landing on site, experiencing the space subconsciously through the intelligence of the body, and reflecting thereupon through cognitive drawing. The exploration follows the translation of these cognitive drawings into architectural drawings, in a way that returns to the experiential quality that which they originally depicted. Translating two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional imagined experience, which is embodied all the way through to the tectonic details. The process informs an architecture which allows the user 's mind to drift to the memory of the mountain, re-orientating themselves to their natural surroundings and enhancing their dwelling experience.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationAllderman, S. (2016). <i>Translations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in design</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23032en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationAllderman, Sarah. <i>"Translations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in design."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23032en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAllderman, S. 2016. Translations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in design. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Allderman, Sarah AB - My interest this year was an architecture based on experience and how the architect rationalizes the complexities of the ineffable. With experience being such an intangible phenomena, whilst architecture is such an intransigent material, the process became about how to translate the one to the other through the process of drawing. By using Table Mountain as a site for exploration, the intangible experience of dwelling on the mountain was studied as an experience to be translated into architecture. This was explored through a process of cognitive and architectural drawings; ephemeral to tectonic details. The disser tation follows the process of landing on site, experiencing the space subconsciously through the intelligence of the body, and reflecting thereupon through cognitive drawing. The exploration follows the translation of these cognitive drawings into architectural drawings, in a way that returns to the experiential quality that which they originally depicted. Translating two-dimensional paper into three-dimensional imagined experience, which is embodied all the way through to the tectonic details. The process informs an architecture which allows the user 's mind to drift to the memory of the mountain, re-orientating themselves to their natural surroundings and enhancing their dwelling experience. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - Translations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in design TI - Translations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in design UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23032 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/23032
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationAllderman S. Translations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in design. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23032en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Architecture, Planning and Geomaticsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherArchitecure and Planningen_ZA
dc.titleTranslations of the Mountain: exploring natural phenomona through ephemeral drawings and intransigent matter in designen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMArch (Prof)en_ZA
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