Paper on the subject of tectonics, TU Eindhoven

“LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURE; ENCLOSING FORM AND SPATIAL INTERPENETRATION. Tectonic construction and its relation to the shaping of space”. Paper, given at the conference: “Tectonics – Making Meaning”, TU Eindhoven, 10–12 December 2007.

Nowadays, the term tectonics stays for handicraft in architecture and the corresponding aesthetic potential of materials. In contrast, this research approaches tectonics as a specific mode of construction, namely skeletal construction, focusing on the space shaping qualities that are linked to it. Reason for the research was the conference: ‘Tectonics – Making Meaning’ at the department of architecture of TU Eindhoven in December 2007. The title of my presentation: ‘Tectonic Construction and its Relation to the Shaping of Space’