1- The history of architecture is full of different ways of doing and making decisions, design-wise. There are different approaches when confronting with a theory and a practice. They all seem safe and accurate; however there is a common belief that they aren’t. The history of architecture has always been so chaotic, amusing and plagued with errors like the authors involved in its construction. A search for errors is therefore proposed emerging from the study of the theory of knowledge and logical processes that have guided Science to where we are today, the search for error in Architecture through error in epistemology.

2- In everyday Architecture floor-plan drawings and cross-section ones are “brought together”, traveling within plans in search of references of cross sections, pursuing entrances and exits, bringing along partialities from plan to plan, reading footnotes on plans to interpret what takes place, establishing a dialogue about a project in search of a concept, assembling volumes from documents supplied as floor plans, attempting to comprehend volumetric situations from “2D” drawings or trying to recognize a gravitational assemblage. Situations in which we are aware and others not, where a mental exercise of structural coupling of all the parts that have been read is put in motion, even though these are not really related to each other and yet full of errors. Taking advantage of the trust that is generated from this exchange of information, they sneak in and make their way to the end, preventing us from falling into them.

3- In Architecture one of the most common ways of dealing with a project is through the trial and error method where continuous drawings or models are made, over and over again. In Architecture it is common to rely on persuasion in order to discover something, reiterating the search for a wish. Each of them with modifications of the previous ones, with new possibilities and trials.
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García Triviño, Francisco (2014). Atlas y topología del error como un sistema productivo en la arquitectura. Tesis (Doctoral), E.T.S. Arquitectura (UPM) <https://oa.upm.es/view/institution/Arquitectura/>.

According to Manuel Castells’ position, the importance of information along history has been crucial for society’s control and regulation. Nowadays, in what we call Informational Society, information is furthermore the result of a change in the production model. This control of information triggers a series of mechanisms that are based on the cybernetic society but are extended to other disciplines. Hence the important work of hacking, a silent being who adds value to information as a means and as an end, generates questions and opens new strategies on the game in this new society. Architecture also plays in that field. There are architectural proposals apparently friendly with the preexistenses, but in reality they are agents that transform the interpretation of the existing architectural codes. The hacking acts as a “secret” agent. It’s introduced into the data network, generates a fault in it, distorts and misses the modes of working. In this sense, the hacking has no plan to create a new order, but to destabilize the system through error. It leaves open the possibility of reorganization or construction of a new order. The error as an event and the hacking as a creative exploration (Aceros Guaron) work like an engine that keeps alive the power or the control games established in contemporary architecture. The hacking has avoided the paralysis of architectural information environments; it has worked on putting in a difficult situation established systems. Without define them-selves as hacking, there are cases of architectures that mimic the tactics and procedures of this culture. Lutyens, in early 1900, includes in his houses’s floorplans, elements that destroyed the architectural conventions of the structuring axes. His disruption in the architecture of that period generated different uses that have been predetermined. Something similar happens in some preservation buildings, like the example of OMA in Kohlenwäsche Zollverein, mainly based on the incorporation of an element which enabled a new re-interpretation of the building code. Or more recently, the case of «Office» that through abstract interventions give a new positioning of an established architecture. The position of the hacking architecture confronts with the information. She willfully generates an error to put the system in doubt.

Contrary to the origins of information theory, error is part of communication. The so-called “Invisible College” (Palo Alto School) has shown how the elimination of error for the purpose of achieving isomorphic messaging is detrimental to communication. This article applies these theories to architecture, using three different case studies to show how errors have been decisive and inseparable from the final message of each project.

More info: https://ebuah.uah.es/dspace/handle/10017/50049

In his work State of Exception, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has recently studied the consequences of the exception becoming the rule. He explains a situation where the law requires the partial exclusion of the legal order so as to preserve its legitimate character. It forms the basis of the so-called «spaces in suspension», where the rule is the exception in the form of the suspension of the legal order, the anomie. In those spaces the act of government is located in a threshold area of ambiguity between general and particular spheres. The transference of Agamben’s concept into architecture is possible. There are physical scenarios where the norm is not a security shield since it is accomplished and questioned at the same time. What type of architecture is responding to those spaces in suspension? Is there a critical attitude boosted by those kinds of architectural practices? The paper approaches the topic through a theoretical contextualization of the idea of the state of exception in architecture. This approach is based on the analysis of some case studies, which are considered as disruptive practices since they are proposing new ways of practising architecture. They utilize strategies such as new interpretations of the law (urban prosthesis, occupation of public spaces), the replacement of the authorities’ duties (occupation of public buildings and empty plots) or the proposal of new teaching practices. Their analysis let the authors define a specific context in architectural practice, which reflects a new paradigm called «architecture in suspension».
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https://ebuah.uah.es/dspace/handle/10017/50107 

1. Sistema de cierre de dos huecos de paso que comparten una hoja simple abatible caracterizado porque comprende:

A: Dos precercos que se disponen de forma perpendicular, con la singularidad de que el vástago central o la barra compartida es de sección triangular o en forma de cuña, con el fin de tener continuidad estructural y geométrica con las dos caras de los precercos que comparte. El marco a incorporar asume una geometría en forma de cuña e incorpora un remate exterior en forma de chaflán que permite que la hoja especial de la puerta pueda abrir.

B: Hoja de puerta con el canto que va a tener las bisagras en ángulo, de forma que encaje con el chaflán del marco.

C: Tapetas de cierre, que se disponen para que su espesor cierre el hueco que deja la bisagra con el marco de la puerta.

2. Sistema de cierre de dos huecos de paso que comparten una hoja simple abatible, según la reivindicación anterior, que incorpora una manilla de cierre magnético que evita el sentido único de cierre y apertura.

More info: https://consultas2.oepm.es/InvenesWeb/detalle?referencia=U202131099