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MATERIALITY AND IMMATERIALITY

 Materiality

Materiality in architecture is a concept that applied the use of various material or substance in building. This concept express when all the components of architecture form a close unity.
Materialty in architecture is perceived to be solid, stable and reassuring. Olden days architecture are build to longer lasting and permanent. 

 As Paul Weiss stated "In final analysis any shape we are looking at has a history and is the result of a long process of development. As in this sense every shape is a momentary cross-section of a flow of shaping and transforming processes, what we admire as beauty and order is an index of the interrelation of moments in development. Consequently, the beauty of shapes is based on the regularities of their evolution." 
Immateriality

Immateriality in Architecture is an idea where material is an object, where architecture is more than management of natural and social situations. Focusing immateriality perceive the absence of matter more than the actual absence of matter, it creates condition in which that decision can be made. The experience of immaterial architecture is based on contradictory sensations, is appropriate to an active and creative engagement with architecture. 

 St.Thomas once said "The soul must be immaterial, which belongs to belong whose thoughts are not confined to the words 'here' and 'now', but are able to abstract from every limitation. 

CASE STUDY

 COMPOSITE FIBRES - ZAHA HADID


Zaha Hadid's practice is at the forefront of using new materials to express the complex geometries they create through parametric design. Although they are famed for making concrete appear weightless, many of their building's skins are clad in different types of composite fibres. The Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, for example, uses Glass Fibre Reinforced Polyester (GFRP) to create an almost seamless flowing exterior. Their recent extension to the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London uses much the same technique, with their experimental materiality even extending into the design of superyachts.



METALS - FRANK GEHRY


Frank Gehry, perhaps most famous for his titanium clad gallery in Bilbao, has also employed metal cladding to great effect on a number of other buildings. Ranging from the stainless steel clad Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA to the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, shining, silver metal has often wrapped around his fluid, distorted forms and made a bold statement on the city skyline.



In my opinion, both materiality and immateriality are what architecture today is trying to achieve. Many current architectural proposals, consciously or unconsciously, deal with one question related with the very same specificity of architecture. However on how it fuses the immaterial and the material, and consider its consequences, challenging preconceptions about architecture, its practice, purpose, matter and uses.


REFERENCE LINK :
1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materiality_(architecture)
2- http://www.archdaily.com/tag/materiality/
3- https://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/16/zaha-hadid-kuki-chair-carbon-fibre-hypetex-launch-design-miami-basel-2016/
4- http://compositesandarchitecture.com/?p=4216
5- https://sotech-optima.co.uk/frank-gehry-a-metal-cladding-master/

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