TY - JOUR
TI - Habitat as a process: The concept of the built environment from a dynamic perspective
AU - Januszewski, Wojciech
TI - Habitat as a process: The concept of the built environment from a dynamic perspective
AB - 
	The subject of the paper is a preliminary sketch of the theory of organization of the built environment, as an answer to the dynamics of urbanisation processes in the twenty-first century. The basic assumptions of this theory are: 1) the temporality and variability of habitat elements, 2) the irreducibility of the environment to its part, 3) the linking of different organisation scales, 4) balancing individual and collective factors, continuity and novelty, as well as conditioning and creative freedom; 5) human participation as an integral part of system description. The work uses earlier structuralist concepts, especially theories by J. Habraken, and also the assumptions of process philosophy by A.N. Whitehead. The result of the study is an outline of a processual model of environmental organisation, based on a original set of technical concepts, including the field, the event, event potential, transformation, control and the relational pattern. The model offers a description of the habitat as a hierarchical system synthesising various elements of architectural and urban design. This results in a new perspective of the architect’s role in the organisation process of the habitat.
VL - 2020
IS - 31/2020
PY - 2020
SN - 1731-2442
C1 - 2543-8700
SP - 18
EP - 32
DO - 10.4467/25438700SM.20.011.12685
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/habitat-as-a-process-the-concept-of-the-built-environment-from-a-dynamic-perspective
KW - habitat
KW - built environment
KW - organization process
KW - field
KW - architecture habitat