Urban response: an exploration of architectural systems modulated through mediums of digital sound and music

[摘要] URBAN RESONANCE explores the connections between architectural design and the multifaceted conceptual links to theidea of resonance in sound. This comparison is made in respect to the fact that a building is somewhat required to resonatewith its urban context as well as to orchestrate the resonance relating to systems of people, built form and program, withinitself. In using the concept of resonance, it is seen that these three systems, although separately definable, work togetherin one architectural environment – influencing each other in some way whether beneficial or not. I have chosen thesethree components of architectural design in response to Johannesburg’s urban and social context, and will explore theirintegration through celebrating their interstitial spaces of influence and resonance with each other. I seek to allow thisidea in design, to produce new meaningful social encounters brought about by the exploration of cross-programming in abuilding coupled with an architectural response that enforces these social ideas. In the framework of Johannesburg, thequestion is not necessarily what the systems are but maybe rather how they can be unified and brought together in abuilding design. Sound is one of the least substantially manipulated and considered parts of building design, yet itsrelationship to inhabitants and their social connections to each other and space is powerful enough to allow people toperceive their surroundings solely through the things that they hear. URBAN RESONANCE is the explicit exploration ofcollective social 'being’ in a building that uses sound and music to unify its programmatic and physical design within thecontext of Braamfontein, Johannesburg.Keywords:

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand