The program is an abstract rationalization that gives the straight sensation that we are actually doing something for a place. It is a determination of the power of the intellect to control and evade time. It “uses change” and we cannot predetermine when or why; hence it is indeterminate. This implies that buildings and places should have the capacity to accept programmatic change. This also implies not assigning a definite program to spaces, buildings, or places but infusing them with the capacity to hold unforeseen uses. When we lack a finite program to support our decisions, what do we have instead? The opportunity to make a project that is simultaneously indeterminate and grounded. It becomes a design project that generates a folded time process in which the time traces of a place, whether past, present, or future, are coexistent and allow for the ‘unknowns’ of a place to be revealed.
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Time Operations
Cidália Ferreira Silva (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch005
Abstract
This chapter proposes four time operations—gleaning, grounding, stimulating, and transmuting—for practicing time within architecture as an expanded field. By exploring the relationships between the future-past-present through folded time as coexistence and lived time, these time operations unfold the ways to make interprojects for cultural landscape adaptability. First, the background that supports this research is presented, namely, why is it relevant and the main references with which this path was made concrete. Second, the meaning of time is defined as a way to understand what time practice is being deepened. Third, each operation is explored by describing the main features and procedures pertaining to gleaning, grounding, stimulating, and transmuting. Fourth, the chapter discussion continues by revealing the relationships between the operations, namely moving beyond the expected linear succession. The chapter concludes with a hypothesis of further future development as well as the main conclusion and key terms.