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This thesis, Architecture Between Σpace, ➝T1me and Φrame, investigates how architecture can act as a systemic medium that frames the interaction between spatial, temporal, and structural dimensions. Rather than treating Σpace, ➝T1me and Φrame as abstract concepts, the research positions them as active design parameters that shape how architecture is conceived, constructed, and experienced. Σpace is understood as the origin of material and emotional presence, ➝T1me as the force that brings rhythm, change, and memory, and Φrame as the mechanism that structures perception, interaction, and transformation.
Through three core design investigations — Urban Sampling (Waste to Energy), which brings together infrastructural and civic systems; Flux Facade, which develops a kinetic climate responsive envelope; and Tidal Lagoon, which integrates ecological processes with urban infrastructure, the thesis demonstrates how architecture can evolve across scales and contexts while maintaining conceptual continuity. Supplementary explorations in parametric and AI driven methods further expand the role of algorithms and adaptive systems in rethinking architecture as a responsive and temporal medium.
The culminating housing project near Estadio Azteca in Mexico City synthesizes these principles into a flexible framework where modular units, shared spaces, and collective infrastructures adapt to shifting urban rhythms. Ultimately, this work argues for architecture as an open ended system that negotiates between infrastructure and community, between permanence and change, and between the lived, the temporal, and the framed.