Blurring Boundaries, An Interdependency, In Architecure

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the relationship between architecture and other design disciplines. It investigates the design philosophies of fashion designer Issey Miyake and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, as a procedure that compositionally analyses their techniques as a method of designing architectural spaces. The research methodology began by designing in the mode of Miyake and Noguchi to produce an object that had not been made before by the designers. A sculptural garden was made concerning pleating and origami in the mode of Miyake. A pair of pants were made in the mode of Noguchi with contrasting materials and shapes which was true to the dichotomies in Noguchi’s work. This methodology was likened to a Haiku in which endless iterations are created based on the same 5-7-5 syllable constraints. The functions on the site were split into seven elements where this process was employed. This created a ‘Haiku of Architecture’ which formed the brief for the design of the seven elements on the site. This thesis observes the similarities of the interdependency that architecture and other design disciplines have, and how the elements on site bear the same relationship to one another and cohesively work as a collaborative design studio and residence.