Spaces of Convergence
In After Comfort: A User’s Guide. This is a project by e-flux Architecture in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Liverpool, and Transsolar.
When does the scope of architecture stop and landscape architecture start (and vice-versa) relative to thermally safe public environments? Disciplinary liability and insurance requirements for design practices often emphasize topics such as safety, quality of life, and the implementation of standards, yet they also raise questions concerning disciplinary boundaries in the context of thermal protection. While landscape architecture seems more concerned with the horizontal domain (the ground) and architecture with the vertical (the wall), interrogating bounded disciplinary scopes is essential for addressing issues of thermal adaptation, climatic justice, and decarbonization.
Benedito’s essay argues for a disciplinary convergence between Architecture and Landscape Architecture in which the wall and the vertical/horizontal sections are discussed as inhabited spaces for thermal protection and architectural innovation.
Editors: Daniel A. Barber, Jeannette Kuo, Ola Uduku, Thomas Auer, Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch
Citation: Silvia Benedito, After Comfort: A User’s Guide, “Space of Convergence,” e-flux Architecture and the University of Technology Sydney, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Liverpool, and Transsolar, 2023-2024