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CLINAMEN

Diploma Thesis | Design Research
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | 2016
Collaborator: Vasiliki Alamanou

Clinamen, or in other words change, tilt, twist. It describes the unpredictability in the process of creation. In architectural creation, clinamen constitutes the starting point for a series of theoretical and spatial approaches around the transcription of clinamen to design strategies. The concretization of this process into material substance, and the human scale affected the specific architectural design bringing to the surface the concept of decomposition, which will be the starting point of the series of spatial experimentation. Decomposition is regarded as a process of nature over the built human infrastructure, whose outcome is expected and received as undesirable. However, seen from a different angle, it could be recorded as a narrative of matter, which, beyond the predetermined geological effect, it also constitutes a continuous production of spatial qualities, by subtractions of matter. The analysis of this complex phenomenon begins with an approach through its biological status, where the first conclusions are obtained about the micro scale of the phenomenon, but also about its hidden structures. Its biological imprint, leads to the first experimental illustrations with respect to the surrounding environment of a building which is being decomposed. The experience of the first experiments is, thus, acquired, leading to the need of finding the architectural scale. The point into the city fabric that possesses characteristics of building decay and that could be the ideal tractor for the concept of derogation, is sought. At this point, the grid is introduced, synchronized to the dimensions of the existing decaying building, which is given the ability to hold at its structures of nuggets of matter, which escapes from the structure of the building during its decomposition process. The grid is identified with the element that will generate the “clinamen”, eventually leading to the formation of a new geology. The result is a hybrid connection of geological and ordinary structures, which will be classified to their individual spatial understanding. The need to harmonize geological structures arising from the illustration of the city, leads to their gradual rationalization. The result is the creation of an inclusive space, made up of parts of different spatial qualities, which, operating as one entity, satisfies public areas whose basic operations concern knowledge and culture areas.

‘Clinamen’ presented as part of the design studio ‘08 EX 12 - Xorikes Dierevniseis / Spatial Investigations’ at Experimental Architecture Biennial #2 | Galerie Jaroslana Fragnera, Prague

title of agenda: ‘I have always been there’

studio director: Anastasios Tellios, agenda 2010-2015

Oct 2015