Systematization and architecture
De Marco, Paoloa; Silvestre, Franb and Camarasa, Pabloc
aPhD Student, Universitat Politècnica de València and Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy, bDepartamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, cDepartamento de Proyectos Arquitectónicos, Universidad Europea Valencia, Spain.
Abstract:
One of the central issues of contemporary architecture is the possibility of combining the potentialities of industrialized production and the quality of the artisanal work. The process of systematizing architecture allows the coexistence and balance between these two principles. This concept has its antecedents throughout the history of architecture and, from a few decades, it extends to other components of everyday space, such as household appliances. In the present, there are several ways that explore the world of systematization of architecture, aligning with past episodes such as electrification and mechanization of it. An example of these is the work of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos that, thanks to a deep and meticulous study of the field of geometry, has developed its own particular systematization process through the concepts of seriation and modulation: some abstract geometries - the so-called types or systems - enable to generate a better distributions of the different parts and, furthermore, they establish a relationship between formal coherence, resistant structure and manifestation of the concept of order. So systematization involve the different instances of the project - from the ideation to the construction - with the aim of the achieve the efficient beauty.
Keywords: Systematization; architecture; seriation; modulation; beauty; geometry.