Week 2 Review

Week 2-

• Tuesday- Lectures

Keith, Structures of roofing Systems, with emphasis on not using flat roofs.



Dan, Synergistics; selective and exclusive systems also CHP.

Book Review
title: Hybrid Space - new forms in digital Architecture
author: P.Zellner
publisher: Thames & Hudson (1999)
Summary & analysis:
Introduction; looks at cultural and social revolution in relation to digital technologies and how they are transforming the field of architecture.
Digital infrastructures inscribed on our mechanical and urban patterns. Architecture becoming an experiment in topological geometries, kinematic sculpting of space.
Blurring relationships between matter and data, real & virtual, organic & inorganic.
Buildings approached from both visual & non visual. users are becoming static, only able to visualize and interact through workstations.
Co-terminus Territories, the real and the virtual. Virtual is Real but not actual, ideal but never abstract. twinning of virtual and real in architecture isn't specific to our time or tech.- i.e. mirror galleries.
Unification of disparate spaces. topology - applies to torus but not a sphere...-relationship between man made and natural

Examples and Case Studies:
NoX: -develop dynamic, mutabke ad evolving design techniques
-design as highly plastic, flexible art in which the building evolves.
-liquid architecture
-'digital genetic engineering'
-forms that exist in the transitional area between biological life and metallic & electronic fauna of modern tech.
- 'matter and space are fused with thier representation in media, where all form is blended with information'
-'soft architecture'
Two trends in arch.

• softness of form, physical turbulence literalised and understood as a phenomenological model of spatialization
• fluidity within the program, softness experienced indirectly through systems of circulation and internal spatial arangement.

Stephen Perrella
Mobius House-
- exploration of hypersurface and how we dwell in relation to communications media
- neither interior space nor and exterior form
- intermingling of; tech. , consciousness, instrumentalities(form and space),economy, representations(images), identities.
to form a deep, dense swirling topology of real and mediated human affiliations: known as Hyperspace theory
-new heterogeneous interactive realms of human experience that bridge real and virtual
- rather than use another dimension it is suggested that the virtual folds into our 3
-cartesian notions of space-time are no longer relevant to architectural development.
- 'real and ideal aren't separate realms, the divisions sustained by transcendental metaphysics, both divisions now impleat'
Hypersurface Panel Studies-
-attempts to create physical representations of the hypersurface

Decoi
Aegis-
- exterior 'skin' to translate the interior of a theatre to the exterior as a fluid pattern
Hysteria Protera Electroglyphs-
-trapping lines derived from the rotation of animated amorphous forms.

The Attila Foundation (Kas Oosterhuis)
transPORTs2001-
- capture intertwinning of physical and virtual
- spaceframe formed of pneumatic bars individually controlled like muscle tissue.
- Co- evolving Sentient technologies, techno-ecologies and body buildings.

Reiser and Umeoto
-relationship between theory, tech. and architectural practice
- binary opposition between; structure and ornament, programme and form, topology and performance.

Macros Novak
- mathematical modeling of dataspace
- how physical space is being transform by virtual space
- 'liquid architecture'
- 'transarchitectures'

• Wednesday; Dissertation tutorial

Went well, discussions about virtual tech. and experiences of reality.
Results of Tutorial: Possibilities for subjects/titles
-What is reality?/What is Architecture? - is too vast for dissertation
- comparison of real and virtual hierarchies - virtual has a hierarchy based on programming ability
- investigation into illusions and whether they are obsolete in a virtual world
Next tutorial on the 21st; should have
-title/question and outline
- precedent and background
(look into International Journal of Architectural Computing)

• Thursday; Studio day

Presentation of photo-montage:
did not go well, poor presentation and montage was not what tutors had hoped for. need to verbalize ideas better. Need to write down and practice what i am wanting to say/convey.

Results of photo-montage:
start presentation with a verbal/visual hook.
redo photo- montage with aim to use it as a diagram showing strength of the link and the insignificance of the wall.

For next week:
Landscape strategy
measured drawing; Anchor 1:50, Site
Group: 1:50 model of wall