structural pattern geometry

Can one push the underlying principle to its limits? What is the right tactic to get to the point where the systemic behavior proliferates variations?
Peter Eisenman’s term of repetition with difference is certainly one determining criteria.

At the basis of the following exploration of geometries towards new organizational structures at a larger scale, the strategies of transformation need to be guided by a series of concepts.

a) Inversion: An exterior surface is programmed on both sides, example: the roofscape being populated and having surface characteristics related to access and connection to other surfaces and planes below.

b) Continuity: A project engages predominantly multiple surfaces, which are interconnected such that the project utilizes as an example “roofed-over” facades, where one single surface receives a multitude of functions and properties. Like it fluently changes from roof to façade to floor and back etc..remember Ito…

c)Incongruity: A geometry emphasizes an inscriptive procedure of free massing with strategies like volume-within-volume sections. Some of the characteristic spatial results are incongruous and residual spaces, which are either constant in their succession or interrupted into separated and non-regular parts. ..remember the artists box…poche or not poche…

…and complement the conceptual strategies with skill techniques

techniques:
the pleat/ the fold: folds in the surface might create not only a deformation but lead to structural rigidness
the layers: either an offset to stack sheets, or a slice in the surface to attach to other sheets-stripes
the weave: bended stripes, or twisted bands form mesh assemblies which also lead to structural stiffness
the eggcrate: multiple perpendicular surfaces joined for a common seam create light but stable structures

Assignm.:
1.Develop the three major pattern generations further, by increasing now the scale according to the following dimensions:

Minimum distance between floor-floor/ roof-floor/ wall-wall about 3m.

2.Prepare Video clip of 3D pattern assembly from individual units to wholes for each of the 3 = pattern transformations as of last assignment in an animation. Choose one of the four schematic strategies A,B,C,or D for each pattern tree generation. due m10-01

Assignm.:
continue to generate variations according to the pattern variation scheme for cases A,B,C,D. test each of your three geometry branches. due mon

fabricate physical models using appropriate materials from cardboard, paper etc..to explore the surface potential. due wed

rule based patterns 3D

An important question to answer will be: When does surface become deep? Do certain techniques accelerate new strategies towards the formation of original organizational structures? Apply one or several of the techniques acquired in the software skills workshops to generate surfaces, further develop and transform them.

You should specifically refer to surface modulations. This means that surfaces get informed or inflected by an extendable variation of interventions on the material and detail level -folded, cutted, sliced, pleated, laminated, layered etc..

Surfaces are initially either smooth or broken, depending on their tangency behavior being continuous or not. Modulations then effect changes in the surface such as folds foster structural rigidity, or such as weaves of bands supporting each other. Surfaces may be manifold in the beginning or get cut and sliced from an initial larger surface into single elements.

Modulations might be
-bending, slicing, bifurcating as some vertex manipulations.
-Extruding via joining vertex points or doubling
-displacement via translating a selections set of vertices

Assignm.:
3D shape designs of three selected parties following the three individual pattern generations.
shape design needs to be scaled for one of the two following applications:
1. interior design application size (select appropriate product designs..)
2. exterior, façade modul size.(60x60cm to 70x70cm)

>maximum relief height 1.5cm

Print:
-3D development in 11x17 “ sheet

Deep surface

air at an unexpected location

With the addition of air, liquids and solids diminish their density. Something homogenous and solid transforms into a loose and perforated structure. The foam model indicates, that under circumstances yet to be clarified, the dense, the continuous and massive yields an invasion of the void. Air, the element most misunderstood, harvests means and ways to protrude into places, where no one expected its presence. Even more so, it brings into being strange places, which did not exist before. The process of becoming, is an occasion to watch the subversion of substance. By tradition, we are concerned with the potential to excavate substances and respond with suspicion or even guess transgression not to say perversion.
The aggregation of air filled voids, springs from a questionable victory over the solid, and as a foam like structure, appears to turn upside down the natural order within nature. It seems to be a bastard of material, emerging from an illegitimate marriage of elements. As opposed to this common disrespect of the seemingly vague, the latent, the close to arbitrary, and the irregular, the studio will take the foam model serious and work on a rehabilitation of its inherent processes and expressions.
In order to complement the widely used methodologies of becoming, such as drift, repetition with difference, processes of catastrophy or creative recombination, we will explore the term explication, in the sense of a discrete move from one condition to the next, like a continuous escape from the status quo.

rule based patterns II b

Continue to develop individual transformation paths and correct any past non successful transformations with ones not considered yet. Consider further the underlying hidden movements, since it is especially the upcoming potential 3D development in the next phase III, which will implement various techniques for further exploration to uncover new organizations.

Explain how the different modules come into perfect place, how they fit into the slot and how they form larger aggregations. A good way is to animate the modules like we saw in the 3DS car component assembly.

assignment m0916
Print:
2D development in 11x17 “ sheet
Digital:
2Ddevelopment in .pdf in - letter size, saved in folder.
Prepare Video clip of pattern assembly from individual units to wholes for each of the 3 = pattern transformation in an animation.

rule based patterns

Can the geometries we explore translate into different scales?

Individual sets of selected geometries are chosen with the perspective of current and future transformation potentials and dynamic scalability. The studio work will through each individual’s research establish a decision catalog, while exploring the possible performance of patterns. This phase II is dedicated to reveal the rules, tiling strategies, layers and constraints, which are at the basis of the selected geometries. Of particular interest is the different ways of transformation, modularization, combination and joining of single elements to larger entities, forming new patterns of complex organizations. Keep in mind that you are developing the concept and strategy for a virtual platform which needs to organize information and foster easy access.

Magic number: 3

diagram

The use of conceptual diagrams is a technique in design that helps to outline the virtual evolution of a project.
Its implementation generates a development of possibilities and potentials in nonlinear progression.
Important for the activation is its stage of non-deterministic, open orientation to the design process.
As one of the primary influences on organizational developments the use accelerates dynamic forces, behaviors and relationships. It is a ‘function’ to the process similar to a generative expediting device or catalysator. It is a performative device rather than based on merely representational characteristics.
According to Deleuze this implementation of diagrams is working like a schematic statement or an abstract machine in the role of a primitive function.

Assignm.: due friday sept 12:
Advanced 2D-shape design of selected parties. Each of three pattern geometries needs be understood in its tiling strategies and show evolution through transformation.
2D development in -36x48 “ sheet

pattern & geometry

The design research phase continues and you will accumulate 2D patterns, which form the genetic pool to generate evolutions of material systems later on. The field of exploration of geometries and patterns covers an open range along today’s discussion.

Analysis and representation methods chosen are in a first step digital images and adjacent diagrams uncovering the underlying geometry as a 2D figure. Individual sets of selected geometries and patterns are chosen depending on their different rules of repetition and multiplication. What is the inherent principle according to which the single module proliferates.

Magic number: choose 5

Reading: Schmidt, Patterns in Design; Agile Rabbit series;

“Do you not see the greatness of our age resides in our very inability to create new ornament? We have gone beyond ornament, we have achieved plain, undecorated simplicity. Behold, the time is at hand, fulfillment awaits us. Soon the streets of the cities will shine like white walls” Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime (1908)

Adolf Loos dogma, postulated a century ago, established a modernist style code to be reassessed by entering into the realm of ornate pattern.

Print:
-2D development in -36x48 “ sheets
Digital:
2D development in .pdf in - letter size, saved in folder.

workshop: Light & shadow

Take one of our containers, with dimensions below, that contains a void space. (for the exercise we thicken the walls to exaggerate)
each student will choreograph the movement of light across the interior space during one day of the year (june 21st). The top and two of the surfaces may be cut in order to transmit light; the other surfaces are to receive that light/shadow. Consider the light in terms of slots, pools, bands, etc.
You are to proceed by constructing virtual models which describe different episodes. Program three (3) different narratives for the movement of light across a space. One narrative should address light movement on a vertical surface, one on a vertical and a horizontal surface, and one on a horizontal surface. Develop strategies how the surfaces need to be cut in order to create a pattern of light.

Precedents:
Dan Flavin (artist), Light installations at Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA
Toyo Ito: Serpentine Gallery, London, GB, 2002; Brugge Pavillion, Belgium, 2002
Le Corbusier, Chapel at Ronchamp, France, 1959
Steven Holl, Planar House, Arizona, USA, 2005
Peter Zumthor, Thermal SPA, Vals, Switzerland, 1996
Tadao Ando, The church of the light, Osaka, Japan, 1989
Louis Kahn, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 1972
Renzo Piano, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA 1987

External dimensions: L 7m W 3.7m H 3.7m
Internal dimensions: L 5.8m W 2.5m H 2.5m
For the purposes of this exercise, you are to use the longitude and latitude of Berlin, Germany. >locate your volume in an effective way relative to the north arrow.

a.)Visualize each narrative strategy with diagrammatic means.
b)All three episodes need to be presented with short quicktime clips, with sufficient length to understand the ideas.

dedication to Pavarotti

If there are any 3d virtual world links, which you want to include, please forward me the addresses or comment here.

Seeking the City: Visionaries on the margins

The following is an excerpt from the upcoming acsa conference which touches our current discussion topics on the non-place realm:

Cities are expanding, exploding, their centers becoming scattered in the margins of mind and space.

Cities and civilization have been inextricably linked throughout history, and the architecture of the city has been an expression of civilization’s highest collective achievements. But in recent decades cities have become hollow: Shifting social and economic pressures are challenging traditional urban forms and rituals, while new communications technologies have changed the nature of the social and physical network within which people dwell.

A global and generic megalopolis is the city’s future.

The city exists at a collision of forces of power. Globalization has given rise to a search for identity in a world of blurred boundaries. Spatially, this teeming agglomeration of people densely accommodated does not follow conventional planning methods; the ubiquity of electronic communications replaces face to face contact, and the non-place realm grows with an energy that eludes control. Corporations see the city as a commodity and aggressively deploy their brands everywhere, draining away diversity while defending their profits at all cost. Meanwhile, classes of citizens struggle to find their place in the economic and social milieu of the metropolis, challenging globalizing forces with grassroots, community-based efforts. Architects and planners play only marginal roles of corrective interventions.

How can we understand the emerging city and mitigate cultural, economic and spatial conflict in the fluid and pluralistic society? What roles can architecture and architects play? What visions will emerge from the margins to nurture sustainable dwelling places and promote diversity of people, of ideas, and of possibilities?

software workshop

While you are generating ideas and concepts for the virtual platform in the background, you should have reviewed all four tutorials of the crash course, which form the basics of the ongoing software skills workshop.