Innovative Uses of Conventional Ceramic Materials and Climate Awareness. Contemporary Critical Regionalism Challenging the Modern Canon

Abstract

Recent decades, have witnessed an emergence in the alternative use of ceramic materials in architectures designed with phenomenological sensitivity. This has implied rethinking materials and form, and an understanding of place that considers climate actively. This article analyses climate-conscious ways of using brick or other ceramic materials as enclosures that overwrite traditional applications and construction systems. These materials are transformed into skins and filters that provide protection from the sun while allowing natural ventilation and light. Applications employing the most advanced technology follow a computational logic characterised by digital disruption.

Keywords

• ceramics
• climate awareness
• contemporary architecture
• disruption
• digital consciousness