MATERIALITY
& IMMATERIALITY
"Absence of material is not necessarily he same as the
absence of meaning"
- JONATHAN HILL
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Materiality
Materiality, where raw or natural material are used,
where the designed material is related to the site and works in the same
languages, where the material used have their own time-factor which means they
decay by ages, where material created a space major in function not feelings a
physical existence.
Jyvaskyla University, Finland – Alvar Aalto
Aalto’s emphasis on materiality and the combination of
white walls with wood and brick and fundamentally present in all of these
buildings, particularly the main building. In which shows Aalto utilize and combination
of material based on the properties to create functional and quality spaces in
this building. Also emphasize are the views of nature from inside the building;
Aalto uses high glass panes to almost seamlessly blend together the interior
with the surrounding environment and allow sufficient sunlight to penetrate.
Aalto used materials appropriately to achieve maximum functionality of the
spaces.
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Immateriality
Immateriality, most common said is that when you it
gave you a feeling, when technological and machine-made modern materials are
used, for example glass, enameled metals synthetic plastic, where these modern
materials have ageless perfection and they do not incorporate the dimension of
time: a sense.
Blur Building, Switzerland – Diller Scofidio and
Renfro
This Blur Building is an atmosphere architecture – a fog
mass resulting from natural and man-made forces. By manipulating the materials,
textures, lights and air, this building creates a unique and unusual
experience. Diller and Scofidio have created a way for the visitors to connect
using light and other senses of human body. Moving through a foggy area, the
visitors sight is weakened and other sense begin to kick in. This allows for
different people to interpret the space in different ways. When the sense is
affected like this, different people will retain different feelings such as
fear or confusion, in which clearly advocated the principle of immateriality.
For me, I think materiality and immateriality act as
an important role in architecture, it affects not only the façade of a building
but it affects the interior as well. Choosing a material seems to be easy but
by choosing a material that are materiality rather than material that are
immateriality is hard in architecture profession. Mostly the material that has
already chosen to be in a construction are timber, stone, and also bricks. All of
the material can be see and touched or feel is considered as a materiality. But,
without immateriality, architecture will become boring without imagination of
the new material that are immateriality.
Materiality and immateriality
predominantly about the expression of material properties and the value
judgements, with materiality, the structure of a building become more strong
and sustainable. And with immateriality, we can go beyond the limit to achive
the idea that we want to have in a space. As example make a building that
transparent or illusion kind a looked. For sure that will not get help with the
material that can be touched, seen or feels. To achieved this for making a
building looked of what we imagine, we cannot use the material of the
materiality. But if we go beyond that, by using a material that can be reflected
such as mirror as the material of the façade to reflect the atmosphere will
make a building disappears from the vision of a person.