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Fluid Architecture: 1.) What Is Fluidity?

Fluid architecture is a design approach that aims to make buildings multipurpose and adaptable over time. It emphasizes fluid forms, dynamic spatial organization, and flexibility. Some key concepts related to fluid architecture include blobitecture which uses organic, amorphous shapes, sinuous forms that interweave spaces, and embracing modernism through new structures and technologies. Notable architects who have experimented with fluid design include Zaha Hadid, SANAA, and Santiago Calatrava. Their works emphasize deconstructivism, weightless structures, and blending with nature. Elements of fluid architecture include channeling flows of people and integrating circulation into the building narrative, as well as considering architecture as spaces of flow rather than static forms.

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Fluid Architecture: 1.) What Is Fluidity?

Fluid architecture is a design approach that aims to make buildings multipurpose and adaptable over time. It emphasizes fluid forms, dynamic spatial organization, and flexibility. Some key concepts related to fluid architecture include blobitecture which uses organic, amorphous shapes, sinuous forms that interweave spaces, and embracing modernism through new structures and technologies. Notable architects who have experimented with fluid design include Zaha Hadid, SANAA, and Santiago Calatrava. Their works emphasize deconstructivism, weightless structures, and blending with nature. Elements of fluid architecture include channeling flows of people and integrating circulation into the building narrative, as well as considering architecture as spaces of flow rather than static forms.

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FLUID ARCHITECTURE

1.) What is Fluidity?


Fluidity means property to flow easily. it is a changeable quality. Fluidity is often expressed in
terms of form, spatial organization and materials. Fluidity indicates a dynamic state. fluid forms
are determined by materials, spaces, functions and behavior of the building and giving a social,
physical, spatial meaning to that building. Fluidity in design can be shown in facades as well as
in planning.

The problem is not how to finish a fold, but how to continue it, to have it go through the ceilings,
determines and materializes form. it produces a form of expression, the curve with a unique
expression. Fluid Architecture is a design approach to making architecture serve as something
multipurpose and multifunctional.
Fluid architecture leads to less consumption, less waste and a higher quality of living and evolve
taking building system into considerations technology obsolescence, evolving and emerging
standards, changing business requirements and everything else that goes with it.
Fluid architecture is a very futuristic concept. It is yet to be discovered and appreciated in India.
The whole movement for green and sustainable architecture should be taken into consideration
very responsibly along with this.
Fluid architecture is uneconomical now, but in totality of time, one could generate great benefits.
With the structure being structurally flexible and adaptable to climatic changes space expansion
and sustainability, fluid architecture could be the answer to the urban modern approach, and with
remodeling being an option most people prefer to go ahead because their home no longer fits
their needs. Fluid architecture hinges on walls that rotate, pivot and slide to reshape rooms to
your needs with the push of a button.
ARCHITECT’ YEAR OF FAMOUS CONCEPTS
NAME ESTABLISHMENT PROJECTS
ZAHA HADID 1980 HEYDAR DECONSTRUCTIVISM
ALIYEV FRAGMENTARY
CENTER,
BAKU

SANAA 1995 ROLEX REPEATED SHIFTING


ARCHITECTS LEARNING WEIGHTLESS
CENTER, BUILDING
SWITZERLAN
D
PATRIK 1988 RAIL BALTIC SOCIAL
SCHUMACHER RAILWAY, FUNCTIONALITY
TALLINN

CARLO RATTI 2004 ITALIAN DIGITAL


PAVILLION AT ARCHITECTURE
EXPO, DUBAI
SANTIAGO 1983 TURNING BLEND WITH
CALATRAVA TORSO, NATURE
SWEDEN

2.) VARIOUS ARCHITECTS WHO HAVE WORKED ON FLUID


ARCHITECTURE

3.) CONCEPTS RELATED TO FLUID ARCHITECTURE

a. BLOBITECTURE 

Blobitecture from blob architecture, blobism are terms for a movement in architecture in


which buildings have an ORGANIC, AMOEBA-SHAPED, BUILDING form the word
stuck and is often used to describe BUILDINGS WITH CURVED AND ROUNDED
SHAPES.
b. SINUOUS SHAPE

The Fluid and sinuous shapes, the variety and INTERWEAVING OF SPACES and the
modulated use of natural light lead to spatial and functional framework of great
complexity, offering constantly hanging and UNEXPECTED VIEWS FROM WITHIN
the building and outdoor spaces

c. MODERNISM
Three modes of modernism
1. Its adherents believe in new structures. By harnessing technologies we can use our
resources more efficiently to create the maximum amount of surplus in terms of space or
value.

2. New ways of seeing, the world is already new but we do not recognize it as such.

3. To represent the reality of modernity, by fusing the above two aspects.


The transformation of our new perceptions into representation of forms we have created.
Zaha hadid does not invent new forms of construction or technologies, she shows us a
world in new ways by representing it in a radical manner.
She finds the roots of modernism in the dissolution of both subject and object, and draws
them out onto the stage of modern landscape, which she reshapes as a place in which we
can bodily go wandering.
d. CUTTING -EDGE TECHNOLOGIES: -

She(zaha hadid) encompresses all the energies that cause the building to appear, from its
programme to its technological infrastructure.
Hadid's interest is in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and geology
as the practice integrates natural topography and human- made systems that lead to
experimentation with cutting-edge technologies. Such a process often results in
unexpected and dynamic architectural forms molded by the realities of site and building
requirements.

4. ELEMENTS RELATED TO FLUID ARCHITECTURE :-

a.) CHANNELING

 Channelling, defines particular relation between that which flows and that which contains
and directs flows.
 The architecture forms the channel for the flows– people, exhibitions – or even more
explicitly in some projects, water, air, or other building systems. Where it merges with
the architectural idea of circulation.

 Examples: -

 UN Studio’s Mercedes Benz  SANAA’s Rolex Centre


Museum (2006)
 Beginning at the museum’s . The Centre uncouples the
uppermost level, visitors navigate the association of circulation and a
building by spiralling downward along a predefined progress, whether
ramp that intertwines circulation and narrative or historical. In divesting
narrative with history. itself of the explicit forms of
 at the top of the spiral with the channelling.
joint birth of the automobile and the
corporation and continues downward
with its exhibitions paralleling
successive automotive advances with
world historical developments. This
formation renders circulation and fluidity
inextricable from both progress and
history.

b.) ARCHITECTURE IN THE SPACE OF FLOWS


Basically, we give high value to perfection of forms.
Form is easier to pin down and measure, easier to talk about, but flows are what makes
things work, and even the most compelling of forms is redundant if it does not connect with the
flows that give it a role or give building a function.

c.) MODERNITY WITH HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:-

Being modernist architects, sought to capture the energy of all our changing activities by
telling stories about them, and in so doing added a narrative viewpoint to the attempt to
give shape to modernity
Submitted By:
Aniket Vatsa
16020BARC0000033
B. ARCH (5th Year 9th Semester)
SVIA

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