Guest-edited by Salmaan Craig, Charles Waldheim, Seok Min Yeo
What happens to architecture and urbanism when they are no longer supercharged by refrigerants and fossil carbon? How might architecture be reshaped by cascading flows of ambient energy, through solar fluxes and thermal gradients, linked to biogenic growing cycles?
This issue of AD examines the relations between three progressive practices that have emerged in contemporary practice over the past decade: critical solar performance, thermal self-regulation, and circular economies of biogenic materials. “The New Heliomorphism” proposes a unifying theory to reconcile the contradictions within and between these distinct modes of spatial projection and their implications for contemporary practice. The edition features contributions from leading voices across three thematic modes of ecologically informed practice—biopolitics and critical solar performance; thermal gradients and thermodynamic sections; biogenic materials after extraction. “The New Heliomorphism examines multiple shared latent tendencies within these ecological practices to propose a general theory of contemporary solar architecture.
COVER
James Turrell
Beneath the Surface, Circular Glass, 2021
LED light, etched glass and shallow space
52-inch diameter, runtime 2 hours and 30 minutes
Courtesy James Turrell Studio and Pace Gallery
Guest-edited by Salmaan Craig, Charles Waldheim, Seok Min Yeo
What happens to architecture and urbanism when they are no longer supercharged by refrigerants and fossil carbon? How might architecture be reshaped by cascading flows of ambient energy, through solar fluxes and thermal gradients, linked to biogenic growing cycles?
This issue of AD examines the relations between three progressive practices that have emerged in contemporary practice over the past decade: critical solar performance, thermal self-regulation, and circular economies of biogenic materials. “The New Heliomorphism” proposes a unifying theory to reconcile the contradictions within and between these distinct modes of spatial projection and their implications for contemporary practice. The edition features contributions from leading voices across three thematic modes of ecologically informed practice—biopolitics and critical solar performance; thermal gradients and thermodynamic sections; biogenic materials after extraction. “The New Heliomorphism examines multiple shared latent tendencies within these ecological practices to propose a general theory of contemporary solar architecture.
COVER
James Turrell
Beneath the Surface, Circular Glass, 2021
LED light, etched glass and shallow space
52-inch diameter, runtime 2 hours and 30 minutes
Courtesy James Turrell Studio and Pace Gallery
