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CHAPTER: HONESTY AND DECEPTION
Deception in Honesty: Bringing Life from Waste to Architecture
by Radyan Januardy Ariyanto | 08111940000054
Over the past few decades, architecture has grown significantly due to the advancement of technology in building structure and construction. This opens many possibilities for architects to choose different kinds of technology, whether in materials, structure, or construction method, to express an architecture according to the conception of the design itself. However, in the distant future, what if we can no longer have the freedom to choose materials for architecture? What if the environmental conditions force us to choose the materials? Even the most unideal one.
Associated with current global conditions, as the human population grows, it can be assumed that waste could no longer be containable. What if it fills our planet? This extreme dystopia would then push humans to make such changes in life, and architecture is no exception. Currently, we are used to using any kind of building materials, without any limitations, according to our intention and design, be it honestly or deceptively. However, in the future dystopia, humans will be forced to use waste, the once avoided and worthless object, to build architecture. Can humans find such value in waste as a building material? What kind of architecture does it create? How will it be presented? Should humans be honest about the existence of waste in architecture? Or instead, deceits it as a new entity to conceal the unideal?
Waste is one of the most avoided objects by humans, as it emits many different discomforts, either visually, smell, or safety in general. This brings up the idea of Deception in Honesty, which is bringing different perspectives on the value of waste as a building material through architectural composition, form, and spatial qualities (Deception), while coexisting (In) with the appearance of waste in the building surface (Honesty). Using waste as a building material requires a thorough consideration of its condition related to the safety, health, and performance aspects of the building. Hence, there will be several criteria for material choice, such as no corrosion, dust free, no hazardous chemical, and many more. In addition, there will also be some limitations on using waste as building materials, such as limited building height, floor levels, building span, and structural integrity of the building, which results in a different way of architectural form generation approach. The design process resulted in a different kind of aesthetics. It is ugly, but maybe that is the new aesthetic, in which humans bring life from waste to architecture?
