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Informationen zum Autor Michael Hensel is an architect, researcher, educator and writer. He is Professor of Architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where he directs the Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics. He cofounded OCEAN in 1994, and is founding and current chairman of the OCEAN Design Research Association and the Sustainable Environment Association, as well as an editorial board member of Architectural Design (AD). He has co-guest-edited five titles of AD, including seminal issues on emergence and the architecture of Turkey and Iran. He is currently writing The Handbook for Traditional Sustainable Buildings for John Wiley & Sons. Klappentext Architecture is on the brink. It is a discipline in crisis. Over the last two decades, architectural debate has diversified to the point of fragmentation and exhaustion. What is called for is an overarching argument or set of criteria on which to approach the design and construction of the built environment. Here, the internationally renowned architect and educator Michael Hensel advocates an entirely different way of thinking about architecture. By favouring a new focus on performance, he rejects longstanding conventions in design and the built environment. This not only bridges the gap between academia and practice, but, even more significantly, the treatment of form and function in design. It also has a far-reaching impact on knowledge production and development, placing an important emphasis on design research in architecture and the value of an interdisciplinary approach.Though 'performance' first evolved as a concept in the humanities in the 1940s and 1950s, it has never previously been systematically applied in architecture in an inclusive manner. Here Michael Hensel offers Performance-Orientated Architecture as an integrative approach to architectural design, the built environment and questions of sustainability. He highlights how core concepts and specific traits, such as climate, material performance and settlement patterns, can put architecture in the service of the natural environment. A wide range of examples are cited to support his argument, from traditional sustainable buildings, such as the Kahju Bridge in Isfahan and the Topkapí Palace in Istanbul to more contemporary works by Cloud 9, Foreign Office Architects, Steven Holl and OCEAN. Zusammenfassung This book offers an innovative and highly practical approach to architectural design. Focusing on the concept of performance that brought about a paradigm shift in the humanities in earlier decades, the book discusses how to use this concept to address ongoing problems in architecture. It explores the meaning of performance in the context of the built environment, design processes, sustainable architecture, spatial organization, and other aspects of design. Featuring numerous color illustrations plus historical and contemporary examples, this is an eye-opening resource for architects and urban designers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication 005 Acknowledgements 005 Foreword by David Leatherbarrow 009 Introduction: The Task at Hand 015 Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance 017 Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance in Architecture 023 Chapter 3: Non-Discrete Architectures 031 Chapter 4: Non-Anthropocentric Architectures 045 Chapter 5: Traits of Performance-Oriented Architecture 053 Local Climate and Microclimate 057 Material Performance 059 The Active Boundary, the Articulated Envelope and Heterogeneous Environments 067 The Extended Threshold 082 Second-Degree Auxiliarity: Supplementary Architectures 095 First-Degree Auxiliarity: Embedded Architectures 109 Multiple Grounds and Settlement Patterns 116 Chapter 6: The Road(s) Ahead 133 Select Bibliography 143 Index 148
