Exploring the tension between design and construction

Helga Blocksdorf / Architecture, Berlin

Prof. Helga Blocksdorf

There are points in the design where the idea, bearing in mind all the analog and digital design tools with the obligation to build according to the state of the art, overlaps with planning law, building physics and sound and fire protection requirements and, above all, with structural-constructive questions and condenses into a seemingly unsolvable problem.

Described by Jan Turnovsky in the 'Poetics of the Wall Protrusion' as the breaking point between the will moment of the concept and the resistance moment of the empirical material, the targeted search for these points in the design process is evident.

If these 'seismic points' can be resolved, an imaginary reduction of complexity arises, which manifests the precious moment between thinking about architecture and the everyday use of things.