According to Prandtl’s Theory, air is a material of different and identificable viscosity and agitation: maximum in its Boundary Layer. An increase in distance from this boundary reduces air’s grade of viscosity and agitation. Based on this, aeronautical engineering developed new shapes and structures, new boundary layers, in order to modify the viscosity and agitation of the air around their aircraft’s wings.
Along with this theory there have also emerged in the East other types of structural shapes: new anatomies for a novel spatial architecture that coagulates into new densities in the soul of a new structural reason. The contemporaneous structure has become the soul of a new space with a manipulable density. The thesis of this research suggests that the aeronautical revolution that Prandtl provoked is the same architectural revolution that we can see in these eastern public buildings built for a new liquid inhabitant, the same that Bauman points out in our society.
According to this theory, we can study the different materiality of this new eastern architectural fluid-air through the manipulation and configuration of its boundary layer, identified as structure. That is, we study the anatomy of air through the geometry and position of its structure, as the agent responsible of the grade of its viscosity, and which gives to the air a new and different materiality. Air is for us, a fluid of variable and different viscosity too. After this time, even at the risk of being soon, it seems possible to recognize a map of Eastern architectures that look into a new written thought in Europe. It is possible to recognize a round look, achieving new anatomies and with them new densities. Now seems the right time to promote a rigorous research that addresses an original conception of thought as an expression of its structure, its form of inhabitation and even their way of making the city.
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