From Data Points to Spatial Experience: Sensing Thresholds

Principle investigated by: pia.fricker@aalto.fi / vollmer@kit.ac.jp

The design is situated in a moment in which ecolog-ical change, technological mediation and everyday life areincreasingly entangled. Climate no longer appears as a stable background to architectural form,but as a fluctuating conditionexperienced as heat, humidity, light, sound and atmosphericdisturbance.Atthe same time,architectural work is increasingly produced, communicated and encountered through digital environments. Within this context,the studio asks how archi-tecture and landscape architecture might be reconceived as environments that organise and reveal such processes, ratherthan as static objects or compositions.

This is an international collaboration between Aalto University and the Kyoto Institute of Technology. Aalto students work with sites in Finland and Japan and with detailed point cloud scans of a modern residence in Kyoto, the House at Kinugasayama, completed in 1964. Rather than treatingthis house as an object to be replicated, we uses it asa spatial and environmental situation in which to observe howelevation, circulation, views and garden relationships organise everyday life. Through immersive simulation and point clouddata, students investigate how thresholds shape relationships between interior and exterior,between past and future, andbetween the individual and the environment.