Contemporary Ornament for Circularity: Exploring Synergies Through Digital Design and Fabrication

Forward, Kristen Michelle

Contemporary Ornament for Circularity: Exploring Synergies Through Digital Design and Fabrication

dc.contributor.advisor	Taron, Joshua M.
dc.contributor.author	Forward, Kristen Michelle
dc.contributor.committeemember	Sharlin, Ehud
dc.contributor.committeemember	Johnson, Jason S.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Hachem-Vermette, Caroline
dc.date	2019-11
dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-24T19:01:56Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-24T19:01:56Z
dc.date.issued	2019-09-22
dc.description.abstract	Contemporary design practices have enhanced the potential of architectural ornament to be innovative, beautiful, and highly sustainable. Historically, ornament has been known to express character and reveal relationships between materiality, technological advances, and societal evolution. Though ornament rapidly declined in the late 1800s, it has recently returned in contemporary design as a critical and discursive topic, while a new theme in sustainability, entitled “Circular Design,” has begun to gain popularity in the past few years. Circular Design goals aim to address the tremendous consumption of materials and energy present in the building industry by proposing the efficient management of both the energy embodied in building materials and the energy consumed in buildings during operation; although, circularity in design struggles to be widely adopted by the building industry largely due to its lack of a social dimension. Contrastingly, contemporary forms of ornament strive to participate in the expression of social values, hierarchies, and order - considerations that Circular Design could adopt to enhance its contribution to subjective wellbeing. Furthermore, contemporary ornament’s close link to advancements in digital design and fabrication have brought a wave new applications of architectural ornament along with capabilities for generating and producing building products that perform socially as well as work to overcome some of the inefficiencies and waste production currently present in traditional manufacturing methods. Contemporary Ornament for Circularity thus aims to effectively intersect research into Circular Design, ornamentation, and digital design and fabrication, in order to ask why buildings that aspire to be environmentally sensitive and technically advanced can’t also operate through aesthetic and cultural dimensions.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Forward, K. M. (2019). Contemporary Ornament for Circularity: Exploring Synergies Through Digital Design and Fabrication (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37116
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111054
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Environmental Design	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	Ornament	en_US
dc.subject	Circular Design	en_US
dc.subject	Digital Design	en_US
dc.subject	Digital Fabrication	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Architecture	en_US
dc.title	Contemporary Ornament for Circularity: Exploring Synergies Through Digital Design and Fabrication	en_US
dc.type	master thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Environmental Design	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Master of Environmental Design (MEDes)	en_US
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