Saturday, June 30, 2007
Yue time schedule
I will not be able to work on this workshop from 8th-18th of July. So I think the final presentation would be better after 24th of July. How do you think?
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Thursday: TopMod & Speed Pinup
Dear Students; as for Thursday I want to remind you to download the Software TopMod, that we will need for the introduction into topological mesh Modeling. It is also crucial that all of you have finished the abstract machine models of material behaviour. Don´t forget to negotiate the borders of your model to the adjanced site. Also please pinup the images you selected and the explanations in connection with the terminology of the module. Pinup the analytical drawings of your plaster models.
I´m also pleased to announce that we will have a guest critic on thursday: Rivka Oxman
Dr. Rivka Oxman is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology. She is currently the chair of the graduate studies committee in architecture and urban design.
Her doctoral research was in the area of Design and Computation. Her research relates to the representation of design knowledge and its exploitation in computational models of design. In the area of design computation, she is investigating the impact of the current generation digital media on design thinking and the development of generative systems for architectural design. Research on digital design theories and models is formulating their contribution to the emergence of new paradigms in digital architecture.
I´m also pleased to announce that we will have a guest critic on thursday: Rivka Oxman
Dr. Rivka Oxman is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology. She is currently the chair of the graduate studies committee in architecture and urban design.
Her doctoral research was in the area of Design and Computation. Her research relates to the representation of design knowledge and its exploitation in computational models of design. In the area of design computation, she is investigating the impact of the current generation digital media on design thinking and the development of generative systems for architectural design. Research on digital design theories and models is formulating their contribution to the emergence of new paradigms in digital architecture.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Model Analysis
Hi everybody,
As to fascillitate the process of analyzing the physical models and ease the process of translating it into the software, we would like you to produce the following maps of your models:
1 manipulation of the wire (e.g. where did you cut it, how many cuts, wire deforming – direction, layering the wire, ect …)
2 plaster application – tomographic map/s (how many layers did you apply, direction(s) of application, direction of distribution, speed of distribution [material viscosity])
3 overlay maps 1+2 >> compare with pictures of the actual physical model
As to fascillitate the process of analyzing the physical models and ease the process of translating it into the software, we would like you to produce the following maps of your models:
1 manipulation of the wire (e.g. where did you cut it, how many cuts, wire deforming – direction, layering the wire, ect …)
2 plaster application – tomographic map/s (how many layers did you apply, direction(s) of application, direction of distribution, speed of distribution [material viscosity])
3 overlay maps 1+2 >> compare with pictures of the actual physical model
Sunday, June 24, 2007
HackerReinhardAbstractMachine
Stratification
Idea
Examine the analyzed Grids (Workshop Wolf D. Prix)
Composition
Overlay different Grids (Mainstreet, Street, ..)
Conclusion
Representation of the individual elements in a city and the entire one
Connectivity
Expiration with the model construction
Apply the plastics on stations in the direction of the connections
- model have been rotated
Laws for a functioning system
- Global order and stability
- Reduction of the communication distances
- Reduction of the energy consumption
- Admission of information from the external world
- Fast reacting learning mechanism and controlling system of evaluation
Topology
Composition
Chickenwire was changed by stretching, tossing, bending and distorting.
The developed network was poured over with Gips
- In order to generate a new form
Idea
Examine the analyzed Grids (Workshop Wolf D. Prix)
Composition
Overlay different Grids (Mainstreet, Street, ..)
Conclusion
Representation of the individual elements in a city and the entire one
Connectivity
Expiration with the model construction
Apply the plastics on stations in the direction of the connections
- model have been rotated
Laws for a functioning system
- Global order and stability
- Reduction of the communication distances
- Reduction of the energy consumption
- Admission of information from the external world
- Fast reacting learning mechanism and controlling system of evaluation
Topology
Composition
Chickenwire was changed by stretching, tossing, bending and distorting.
The developed network was poured over with Gips
- In order to generate a new form
PalueAbstractMachine
Preparation of the chickenwire before adding plaster on it . . .
Side view on tube . . . (1.)
Look in the tube view . . . (2.)
Detail view in the tube . . . (3.)
Detail view in the tube . . . (4.)
Look in the tube view . . . (5.)
Detailed side view on the vertical curved plane . . . (6.)
Side view on the curved plane . . . (7.)
Microscopic elements at the boarder of the holes in the macroscopic dominant verticle fixed curved chickenwire . . . (8.)
Characteristics for transition I observed in
Transition fluid structure in the vertical fixed plaster model. Picture 9.
in picture 9., where a fluid like structure is observable in the vertical fixed plaster model or in
Picture 10.
picture 10. where a in layers movement during the layer adding process in the tube fixed plaster model is observable and in
Picture 11.
picture 11. one can observe the already dried but still visible growth-process of the stalactite like structures inside the tube during the building procedure.
Analysing the first results and modeling experiences with plaster and chickenwire:
I started with a working model characterized by holes which are designed like "doors" or "windows" - means the cutted-off wings remain on one side fixed in the wire plane. I placed some of them randomly across the plane just paying attention that they are opened equaly to both sides. I shaped the plane in a arbitrary way - just not to have a flat plane surface. Hanging the model fixed on wire in the z-y-plane so that the wings are opened up and down.
Putting the plaster in the first step from above - moving to and fro - over the chickenwire nothing remained fixed in the hexagonal wire structure. Almost everthing was falling directly on the ground. Adding more plaster to the water-plaster-solution by the second and further steps the plaster gets accumulated at the top of the wire and at the wings of the holes. Now the entire covering of the wire is a question of the number of layers one adds to the plane. But still almost the greatest plaster accumulation is at the top but with gradient like baviour reducing in the thikness down to the edge of a hole or to the end of the chickenwire. I turned the entire chickenwire ones by 180 degree and repeated the procedure adding plaster - the effect is now basically mirrored - but this mirrored effect may cause the microscopic structures (Picture 8.) at the edge of the holes in the vertical fixed plane wire.
The next experiences I made with a tubed wall model. The effect is similar to the horizontal fixed flat or smooth curved chickenwire we can observe at Mihas model. As the photographs by Miha (horizontal, third picture) and me (horizontal tube, third picture) exhibit. Like in a stalactite cave the plaster is dropping layer by layer through the chickenwire, building up these littel towers in the center of each hexagonal part covering almost the entire pattern.
As Miha and I discussed in the last two days there are basically two possibilities. First the vertical and second the horizontal fixed chickenwire plane. Looking at the vertical postion the dominant effect is the gradient behaviour - accumulation at the top and successive reduction of the tickness of the plaster; primary macroscopic curvation of the wire is taking effect - like wholes, strong curvation or hughe rips like Thomas did it. Microscopic - means details like single hexagonal manipulation - are in relation to big scale curvation in the entire not well recognizable. Concerning the horizontal position - how Miha did it already - one can work on a much more microscopic level.
Regarding my chosen term - topology, gradient and transition - the gradient is the most obviously observable term (thanks to gravity)! The accumulation at the top of the vertical fixed and horizontal tube wire (see pictures 1., 5. and 6.) emerged by the consistency of the plaster and the amount of layer add on the wire. To stress topological characteristics for the vertical fixed plane wire I curved the plane and made holes in it. The plaster did not cover the holes -like expecte - but pave the way accumulating framelike around the hole. As I mentioned above the more macroscopical (thick accumulations) appearance of the resulting structures in the vertical fixed plane one can observe here - at the boarder of the holes - single microscopic detail structures too (Picture 8.). Characteristics for transition are visible in the parts where the plaster shows fluid liked curved traces (see pictures 9. and 10.) and the still visible - evene it is dried - development of the stalactite growing process (Picture 11.).
By choosing the tube curvature for the second working model I already get an interesting space structure which stresses simple but specific topolgical characteristics like the stalactite shaped towers emerged by the hexagonal pattern of the chickenwire. Here in opposite to the vertical wire the microscopic elements dominates (Pictures 3., 4. and 11.) - at least inside the tube. On the top of the tube there is - like expected - the accumulation and the starting gradient behaviour of the plaster towards the sloping curvature of the wire (Picture 1.). The observed transition structure is similar to the vertical fixed model (Pictures 9. and 10.).
Further experiments and experiences are in progress . . .
Side view on tube . . . (1.)
Look in the tube view . . . (2.)
Detail view in the tube . . . (3.)
Detail view in the tube . . . (4.)
Look in the tube view . . . (5.)
Detailed side view on the vertical curved plane . . . (6.)
Side view on the curved plane . . . (7.)
Microscopic elements at the boarder of the holes in the macroscopic dominant verticle fixed curved chickenwire . . . (8.)Characteristics for transition I observed in
Transition fluid structure in the vertical fixed plaster model. Picture 9.in picture 9., where a fluid like structure is observable in the vertical fixed plaster model or in
Picture 10.picture 10. where a in layers movement during the layer adding process in the tube fixed plaster model is observable and in
Picture 11.picture 11. one can observe the already dried but still visible growth-process of the stalactite like structures inside the tube during the building procedure.
Analysing the first results and modeling experiences with plaster and chickenwire:
I started with a working model characterized by holes which are designed like "doors" or "windows" - means the cutted-off wings remain on one side fixed in the wire plane. I placed some of them randomly across the plane just paying attention that they are opened equaly to both sides. I shaped the plane in a arbitrary way - just not to have a flat plane surface. Hanging the model fixed on wire in the z-y-plane so that the wings are opened up and down.
Putting the plaster in the first step from above - moving to and fro - over the chickenwire nothing remained fixed in the hexagonal wire structure. Almost everthing was falling directly on the ground. Adding more plaster to the water-plaster-solution by the second and further steps the plaster gets accumulated at the top of the wire and at the wings of the holes. Now the entire covering of the wire is a question of the number of layers one adds to the plane. But still almost the greatest plaster accumulation is at the top but with gradient like baviour reducing in the thikness down to the edge of a hole or to the end of the chickenwire. I turned the entire chickenwire ones by 180 degree and repeated the procedure adding plaster - the effect is now basically mirrored - but this mirrored effect may cause the microscopic structures (Picture 8.) at the edge of the holes in the vertical fixed plane wire.
The next experiences I made with a tubed wall model. The effect is similar to the horizontal fixed flat or smooth curved chickenwire we can observe at Mihas model. As the photographs by Miha (horizontal, third picture) and me (horizontal tube, third picture) exhibit. Like in a stalactite cave the plaster is dropping layer by layer through the chickenwire, building up these littel towers in the center of each hexagonal part covering almost the entire pattern.
As Miha and I discussed in the last two days there are basically two possibilities. First the vertical and second the horizontal fixed chickenwire plane. Looking at the vertical postion the dominant effect is the gradient behaviour - accumulation at the top and successive reduction of the tickness of the plaster; primary macroscopic curvation of the wire is taking effect - like wholes, strong curvation or hughe rips like Thomas did it. Microscopic - means details like single hexagonal manipulation - are in relation to big scale curvation in the entire not well recognizable. Concerning the horizontal position - how Miha did it already - one can work on a much more microscopic level.
Regarding my chosen term - topology, gradient and transition - the gradient is the most obviously observable term (thanks to gravity)! The accumulation at the top of the vertical fixed and horizontal tube wire (see pictures 1., 5. and 6.) emerged by the consistency of the plaster and the amount of layer add on the wire. To stress topological characteristics for the vertical fixed plane wire I curved the plane and made holes in it. The plaster did not cover the holes -like expecte - but pave the way accumulating framelike around the hole. As I mentioned above the more macroscopical (thick accumulations) appearance of the resulting structures in the vertical fixed plane one can observe here - at the boarder of the holes - single microscopic detail structures too (Picture 8.). Characteristics for transition are visible in the parts where the plaster shows fluid liked curved traces (see pictures 9. and 10.) and the still visible - evene it is dried - development of the stalactite growing process (Picture 11.).
By choosing the tube curvature for the second working model I already get an interesting space structure which stresses simple but specific topolgical characteristics like the stalactite shaped towers emerged by the hexagonal pattern of the chickenwire. Here in opposite to the vertical wire the microscopic elements dominates (Pictures 3., 4. and 11.) - at least inside the tube. On the top of the tube there is - like expected - the accumulation and the starting gradient behaviour of the plaster towards the sloping curvature of the wire (Picture 1.). The observed transition structure is similar to the vertical fixed model (Pictures 9. and 10.).
Further experiments and experiences are in progress . . .
MihaAbstractMachine
This model is researching the phenomena of population growth.
Special focus is on observation of the individuals in the population.
When certain threshold in properties is exceed, growing individuals emerge from grid topography. I am suggesting that in this moment also the topology of individuals is created, inside which individuals differentiate between each other by shape, size, thickness...
The growth of population is driven by gravitation and the degree of materiality of plaster, which are both intensive properties of individual forms, while extensive property is wire-hole, through which they emerge.
Procedure took several layers in time of plaster adding on the wire. In certain individuals we can observe stratification of these layers, when there was still some porosity available.
Special focus is on observation of the individuals in the population.
When certain threshold in properties is exceed, growing individuals emerge from grid topography. I am suggesting that in this moment also the topology of individuals is created, inside which individuals differentiate between each other by shape, size, thickness...
The growth of population is driven by gravitation and the degree of materiality of plaster, which are both intensive properties of individual forms, while extensive property is wire-hole, through which they emerge.
Procedure took several layers in time of plaster adding on the wire. In certain individuals we can observe stratification of these layers, when there was still some porosity available.
WebthomyAbstractMachine
1. dividing the grid into two parts gives the flowing material a treshold not able to cross it.
2. porosoty leads to aggregation points. a dense grid structure in the center concentrates the material in a huge number of stratifications, becouse the material is constantly flow over the grid......
3. because of the extending wight of the model i connected the gap with a single wire when i turned 180 degrees
now the material
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Out of the dustbin.....
....and into the documentation.
Nice example of selforganizational behaviour by populations of molecules..
Nice example of selforganizational behaviour by populations of molecules..
TopMod Download
HackerReinhardTerminology1
Stratification
Idea
Examine the analyzed Grids (Workshop Wolf D. Prix)
Composition
Overlay different Grids (Mainstreet, Street, ..)
Conclusion
Representation of the individual elements in a city and the entire one
Connectivity
Idea
Examine the Wienner undergroundsystem and the brain
(Singer wolf – Der Beobachter im Gehirn)
Composition
System consists of stations (underground station or process)
and connections
Expiration with the model construction
Apply the plastics on stations in the direction of the connections
- model have been rotated
Laws for a functioning system
- Global order and stability
- Reduction of the communication distances
- Reduction of the energy consumption
- Admission of information from the external world
- Fast reacting learning mechanism and controlling system of evaluation
Topology
Idea
Hotel Marques de Riscal, Spanien - Architect Frank O.Gehry
Composition
Chickenwire was changed by stretching, tossing, bending and distorting.
The developed network was poured over with Gips
- In order to generate a new form
Idea
Examine the analyzed Grids (Workshop Wolf D. Prix)
Composition
Overlay different Grids (Mainstreet, Street, ..)
Conclusion
Representation of the individual elements in a city and the entire one
Connectivity
Idea
Examine the Wienner undergroundsystem and the brain
(Singer wolf – Der Beobachter im Gehirn)
Composition
System consists of stations (underground station or process)
and connections
Expiration with the model construction
Apply the plastics on stations in the direction of the connections
- model have been rotated
Laws for a functioning system
- Global order and stability
- Reduction of the communication distances
- Reduction of the energy consumption
- Admission of information from the external world
- Fast reacting learning mechanism and controlling system of evaluation
Topology
Idea
Hotel Marques de Riscal, Spanien - Architect Frank O.Gehry
Composition
Chickenwire was changed by stretching, tossing, bending and distorting.
The developed network was poured over with Gips
- In order to generate a new form
ZülfiyeTerminology1
Transition
The new ity project key transformation project
Neigbourhood concept by turgut cansever
Stratification
Connectivity
The new ity project key transformation project
Neigbourhood concept by turgut canseverStratification
The minaret of samara mosque,Iraq
The dynamism in stratification. The city is changing regarding to the necessity of its own citizen. but also the city has stratification as a whole. It is not a linear way, spiral movement to cover the layers of the city .
Connectivity
chfwu79Terminology1
Transition
Stratification
Population 1950
Population 2015
Barcelona 1859
Barcelona 2007
ExtensiveIntensive
(la Biennale di Venezia- Cities. Architecture and Society vol.I)
Stratification
Population 1950
Population 2015
Barcelona 1859
Barcelona 2007
ExtensiveIntensive
(la Biennale di Venezia- Cities. Architecture and Society vol.I)
YueTerminology1
Topology-Gradients-Transitions
Topology
Spiro Kostof-
Stratification
OMA Winning competition entry for two libraries on the Jussieu campus in Paris
ExtensiveIntensive
Shanghai Bund-
Topology
Spiro Kostof-Stratification
OMA Winning competition entry for two libraries on the Jussieu campus in ParisExtensiveIntensive
Shanghai Bund-
PalueTerminology1
Topology
WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, NL Architects
WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, NL Architects
WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, NL Architects
University of Cottbus Library, Herzog and de Meuron
Choosing buildings with an contextual connection to the term of topology I chosed at first the Heat Transfer Station by NL Architect. This buildings connects spatial and surficial qualities in its architecture but still keeps a simple structure. Even its material or more precisely its smooth shaped look gives the building an unique optical appearance. One gets the feeling to be able to shape or deform the building like a block of gum - motivated by the hole located at the one corner.
The Library of the University of Cottbus I took as example for the topological context too for sure because of the facade shapes - its all over but even so inviting. Further the facade looks to be in motion means in constant process of shape transformation.
Gradient
Eifel Tower Paris
"Swiss-Re" -Tower
As a gradient building I choosed the Eifel tower, which is for sure more an architectural monumet then a building but its shape and construction logic is obviously. The entire infrastructure (stairs, elevator) is constantly smooth shaped focusing to the middel platform and finaly to the top of the tower where visitors can rest.
Transition
Yokohama International Port Terminal
Yokohama International Port Terminal Interior
As transition building I choosed the Yokohama International Port Terminal. The first picture shows us a top-side-view of the building and the second a part of the interior.
Architecture that combines the terms:
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin by Peter Eisenman
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin by Peter Eisenman
The Holocaust Memorial at Berlin by Eisenman, I choosed, because it is a site which is transited by people every day visiting or just crossing it so it is as a part of the infrastructre a kind of a public space. Looking at the site from top view, standing at his boarder or even standing in the center of the field it doesn't matter you have in each viewpoint an other perspective different in gradient, topology and posibility to transit.
WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, NL Architects
WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, NL Architects
WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, NL Architects
University of Cottbus Library, Herzog and de MeuronChoosing buildings with an contextual connection to the term of topology I chosed at first the Heat Transfer Station by NL Architect. This buildings connects spatial and surficial qualities in its architecture but still keeps a simple structure. Even its material or more precisely its smooth shaped look gives the building an unique optical appearance. One gets the feeling to be able to shape or deform the building like a block of gum - motivated by the hole located at the one corner.
The Library of the University of Cottbus I took as example for the topological context too for sure because of the facade shapes - its all over but even so inviting. Further the facade looks to be in motion means in constant process of shape transformation.
Gradient
Eifel Tower Paris
"Swiss-Re" -TowerAs a gradient building I choosed the Eifel tower, which is for sure more an architectural monumet then a building but its shape and construction logic is obviously. The entire infrastructure (stairs, elevator) is constantly smooth shaped focusing to the middel platform and finaly to the top of the tower where visitors can rest.
Transition
Yokohama International Port Terminal
Yokohama International Port Terminal InteriorAs transition building I choosed the Yokohama International Port Terminal. The first picture shows us a top-side-view of the building and the second a part of the interior.
Architecture that combines the terms:
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin by Peter Eisenman
Holocaust Memorial in Berlin by Peter EisenmanThe Holocaust Memorial at Berlin by Eisenman, I choosed, because it is a site which is transited by people every day visiting or just crossing it so it is as a part of the infrastructre a kind of a public space. Looking at the site from top view, standing at his boarder or even standing in the center of the field it doesn't matter you have in each viewpoint an other perspective different in gradient, topology and posibility to transit.
MihaTerminology1
Extensive vs. intensive
Gehry and Hadid
I chose similar buildings in size, program and site. While Gehry´s museum is composed by external deformations of elements, Zaha´s structure is supposed to be parameterized.
Stratification
(horizontal stratification in urban space)
In some parts of this project horizontal stratification can be recognized. It follows the rule of building aggregation described above - distances between the streets generate different typologies.
Topology
Mandler/EppacherZaha Hadid Olympic Village
Urban topology can be perhaps related to "population thinking". The same genetic code generates different phenotypes.
Gehry and Hadid
I chose similar buildings in size, program and site. While Gehry´s museum is composed by external deformations of elements, Zaha´s structure is supposed to be parameterized.
Stratification
(horizontal stratification in urban space)
In some parts of this project horizontal stratification can be recognized. It follows the rule of building aggregation described above - distances between the streets generate different typologies.
Topology
Mandler/Eppacher
Urban topology can be perhaps related to "population thinking". The same genetic code generates different phenotypes.
WebthomyTerminology1
GradientStratificationTransition
stratification is the center of a gradient system not knowing where the transition point is exactly
gradient systems
public- privateness (people, distance)
stable- unstable (construction, distance)
porosity- density
Down Town Athletic Tower in NY (Starrett&Van Vleck) is reflecting a type of building with natural (resources)gradiants.
The wedding cake shape of the building emerge (despite the reason given from the law) from reasons of constrctive bounderies.
The simpe rule of: as higher the building the lighter gets the constrction to the top.
Also the programatic of the building reflexes the reason to create a fatter basement and getting slighter to the top. In the lower floors are highly frequented
rooms open for the puplic in contrast to the topfloors with privat use only for same few.
stratification system
stratify homes, office...
stratify landscape
High-rise of Homes (James Wienes&Site) illustrates some how ironically the meaning of stratification in architektur. To stratify means to go on distance with nature. His painting includes ideas used/ translated by offices like mvrdv (pic city, expo pavillion hannover) to improve the green space in higher levels.
stratification in horizontal structures can get differentation by getting artificial pressure to generate different distances between the floors (metamorphosis)
transition system
diller +scofidio defined their builing for the expo in switzerland on the boarder of the transition from water beiing gas or liquid (cloud).
not the builing itself can be a `transition` or underly a transition but the circumstances where it belongs.
also theres not clear...in mies pavillion when we are inside or outside the building
stratification is the center of a gradient system not knowing where the transition point is exactly
gradient systems
public- privateness (people, distance)
stable- unstable (construction, distance)
porosity- density
Down Town Athletic Tower in NY (Starrett&Van Vleck) is reflecting a type of building with natural (resources)gradiants.
The wedding cake shape of the building emerge (despite the reason given from the law) from reasons of constrctive bounderies.
The simpe rule of: as higher the building the lighter gets the constrction to the top.
Also the programatic of the building reflexes the reason to create a fatter basement and getting slighter to the top. In the lower floors are highly frequented
rooms open for the puplic in contrast to the topfloors with privat use only for same few.
stratification system
stratify homes, office...
stratify landscape
High-rise of Homes (James Wienes&Site) illustrates some how ironically the meaning of stratification in architektur. To stratify means to go on distance with nature. His painting includes ideas used/ translated by offices like mvrdv (pic city, expo pavillion hannover) to improve the green space in higher levels.
stratification in horizontal structures can get differentation by getting artificial pressure to generate different distances between the floors (metamorphosis)
transition system
diller +scofidio defined their builing for the expo in switzerland on the boarder of the transition from water beiing gas or liquid (cloud).
not the builing itself can be a `transition` or underly a transition but the circumstances where it belongs.
also theres not clear...in mies pavillion when we are inside or outside the building
Friday, June 22, 2007
Emergent design group
especially look for
Emergent Structural Morphology(AD Architectural Design, Special Issue, Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, Academy Editions (London) vol 72(1) January 2002, 12-16)
especially look for
Emergent Structural Morphology(AD Architectural Design, Special Issue, Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, Academy Editions (London) vol 72(1) January 2002, 12-16)
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Emergent Density - Module Outline
Emergent Density
Emergent behaviour in the formation of urban textures.
The main aim of this course is the exploration of systems of emergence as a design strategy for urban design. Instead of using tools of composition we will use tools of behaviour in order to scrutinize the selforganization of entities within an urban scheme. Thus creating patterns of materialization, densification and voids, striving for minimal energy consumption in correlation with the topography of the site and the various constraints applied to the structure. The constraints, the rules applied to the design, create variations in the resulting condition.
Complex populations
All of the above phenomena can be observed in organic systems of various levels, from very primitive lifeforms to higher level entities, as well as in anorganic entities. In this case intensive forces create emergent behavior such as hurricans or patterns formed in sand by waves crashing on the beach, and thus creating a constant flow of infinetly different patterns. Emergent properties can also be defined and discribed by stochastic(2) systems, as for example the behaviour of gas under pressure. The example of gas under pressure shows that the individual molecules are moving in deterministic paths, but that the paths of a population of molecules is computationaly, and practically, unpredictable. A huge population of molecules will behave in stochastic characteristics; filling the container, striving for equal pressure, diffusing along concentration gradients and so on. All of this behaviours can be tagged as emergent properties of a system.
stochastic behaviour within an atmospheric cloudfield
(www.met.rdg.ac.uk/ clouds/research.html)
Propable Cities
Why is this important? Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks and artificial intelligence, all of this fields rely on stochastics in order to solve problems by using probabilistic methods. In Architecture this notion can lead us to novel approaches where the notion is that a problem itself may be stochastic, as in planning under uncertainty, resulting in emergent urban conditions.
Branching
Evolutionary algorithm creating a branching condition in 2D, created with Mathematica
Emergent structures are patterns not created by a single event or rule. There is nothing that commands the system to form a pattern, but instead the interactions of each part to its immediate surroundings causes a complex process which leads to order. One might conclude that emergent structures are more than the sum of their parts because the emergent order will not arise if the various parts are simply coexisting; the interaction of these parts is central. Emergent structures can be found in many natural phenomena, from the physical to the biological domain. For example, the shape of weather phenomena such as hurricanes are emergent structures.
It is useful to distinguish three forms of emergence structures. First-order emergence structures occurs as a result of shape interactions (for example, hydrogen bonds in water molecules lead to surface tension). Second-order emergence structures involves shape interactions played out sequentially over time (for example, changing atmospheric conditions as a snowflake falls to the ground build upon and alter its form). Finally, third-order emergence structures is a consequence of shape, time, and heritable instructions. For example, an organism's genetic code sets boundary conditions on the interaction of biological systems in space and time.
Algorithmic Botany: Branching structure in 3D
Raybranch288
For the creation of urban textures we will rely on the use of third-order emergence structures. The students will follow a set of rules that will create a complex entity evolving in four dimensions.
Rules:
Extensive vs Intensive (3)
Stratification
Connectivity
Gradients
Transitions
This five issues will cover, in varying combinations of three, the student's projects and the scrutiny of the issue of emergence and complexity. The analysis of complex systems that are sensitive to its initial conditions differs from the issue of chaotic systems, as clearly stated by Colander(4) the study of complexity is the opposite of the study of chaos. Complexity is about how a huge number of extremely complicated and dynamic set of relationships can generate some simple behavioural patterns, whereas chaotic behaviour, in the sense of deterministic chaos, is the result of a relatively small number of non-linear interactions (Cilliers, 1998).
Complex systems may exhibit behaviors that are emergent, which is to say that while the results may be deterministic, they may have properties that can only be studied at a higher level. For example, the termites in a mound have physiology, biochemistry and biological development that are at one level of analysis, but their social behavior and mound building is a property that emerges from the collection of termites and needs to be analysed at a different level.
The rules will be applied in a twofold process:
First the creation of a material behaviour based model.
This models will explore the behavior of one material (plaster) in different levels of viscosity on a large scale model, bearing specific constraints eleborated by the students following the rules above (stratification, connectivity ea.) the results are shaped by various intensive forces (form in combination with gravity, flow forces, varying viscosity, friction..) The matter of emergence as a system for the generation of advanced behaviour in an urban texture.
Selforganization4
Analogue modeling of selforganizational patterns ©SPAN2006
The result of this models are further scrutinized by translating the selforganizational qualities into a machinic language. The analysis of the analogue model serves as a guideline for the development of digital design tactics. The models are moved into a machinic environment, wether this is by manual measurement, in an extensive process, or other measuring methods is up to the student. The importance of this step lies in the abbility of the student to interpret the intensive process applied to the first model in order to understand the potentials for an urban pattern (he density of the scaffold, variations in density and also behavioral densities). It is by no mean necessary to translate the analogue model in a literal way, but more important to understand the conceptual forces driving form, program, growth of urban patterns, textures, porosities, chromatics, gradients, and scale.
One of the main points withim this exploration will be the scrutiny of the models in terms of performance as an urban condition.
Pavilion2213
TopMod Models exploring various degrees of porosity (maxwellrender).©SPAN2006
In a further process the students have to find their own sets of rules based on the observations and conclusions from the physical model, this rules are the base for the projects development into a synthetic ecology by the use of a topological mesh modeling software. The problem of material behaviour and selforganization is interweaved with the problem of Topology and Selfconnectivity, thus the use of TopMod as a potential tool for the examination of the problem. The Software faccilitates the creation of digitally fabricated models that will buid one part of the final presentation.
Por6
3D printed model of one porous exploration. ©SPAN2006
The students are supposed to work an a single site in a communal effort. The site is divided among the students in order to create variaty within the site, constrains in form of the neccesary connectivity between the various projects have to be elaborated by the students.
Schedule:
1: Analogue Model, based on chickenwire and plaster, students have to follow varying agendas. The model has to measure a minimum of 1m x 1m
2: Translation of the model into TopMod & Maya
3: Abstract machines: explanatory maps and plans of the concepts and observation results out of both the analogue and the digital model.
In 1:500 scale.
4: 3D printed model of crucial points of the design, depicting the discovered framework based on the rules (Extensive vs Intensive, Stratification, Connectivity, etc) The models have to be nested within a milled base of the site.
5: Two A4 pages minimum TxT explaining the conceptual background as well as the exploration in terms of performance within an urban texture.
6: For the final presentation we will rely on a strict basic graphic and model representation for everyone. I.e.: Layout, font, model scales…
Acompaining workshops & lectures:
1: Introduction into TopMod
2: Lecture on Machine Learning
3: Troubleshooting in Zprint
Reading List for Students:
D´Arcy Thompson: On Growth and Form
Stephen Hyde: The Language of Shape
Ernst Haeckl: Artforms in Nature
Jaap A. Kaandorp: The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory)
Notes:
1: Goldstein, Jeffrey (1999): "Emergence as a Construct: History and Issues", Emergence: Complexity and Organization 1: 49-72
2: Stochastic, from the Greek word “Stochos” (Aim, Guess, means of, relating to) is characterised by conjecture and randomness. A stochastic process is one whose behaviour is non-deterministic in that a state does not fully determine its next state.
3: See also the paper “The machinic phylum” by Manuel de Landa, as well as :Manuel DeLanda & Peter Lamborn Wilson , 'Cities and Theories of Self Organization'
Manuel DeLanda: ‘Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture’
4: Colander, D. (2000): The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics, E. Elgar, Northampton, MA.
Emergent behaviour in the formation of urban textures.
The main aim of this course is the exploration of systems of emergence as a design strategy for urban design. Instead of using tools of composition we will use tools of behaviour in order to scrutinize the selforganization of entities within an urban scheme. Thus creating patterns of materialization, densification and voids, striving for minimal energy consumption in correlation with the topography of the site and the various constraints applied to the structure. The constraints, the rules applied to the design, create variations in the resulting condition.
Complex populations
All of the above phenomena can be observed in organic systems of various levels, from very primitive lifeforms to higher level entities, as well as in anorganic entities. In this case intensive forces create emergent behavior such as hurricans or patterns formed in sand by waves crashing on the beach, and thus creating a constant flow of infinetly different patterns. Emergent properties can also be defined and discribed by stochastic(2) systems, as for example the behaviour of gas under pressure. The example of gas under pressure shows that the individual molecules are moving in deterministic paths, but that the paths of a population of molecules is computationaly, and practically, unpredictable. A huge population of molecules will behave in stochastic characteristics; filling the container, striving for equal pressure, diffusing along concentration gradients and so on. All of this behaviours can be tagged as emergent properties of a system.
stochastic behaviour within an atmospheric cloudfield
(www.met.rdg.ac.uk/ clouds/research.html)
Propable Cities
Why is this important? Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks and artificial intelligence, all of this fields rely on stochastics in order to solve problems by using probabilistic methods. In Architecture this notion can lead us to novel approaches where the notion is that a problem itself may be stochastic, as in planning under uncertainty, resulting in emergent urban conditions.
Branching
Evolutionary algorithm creating a branching condition in 2D, created with Mathematica
Emergent structures are patterns not created by a single event or rule. There is nothing that commands the system to form a pattern, but instead the interactions of each part to its immediate surroundings causes a complex process which leads to order. One might conclude that emergent structures are more than the sum of their parts because the emergent order will not arise if the various parts are simply coexisting; the interaction of these parts is central. Emergent structures can be found in many natural phenomena, from the physical to the biological domain. For example, the shape of weather phenomena such as hurricanes are emergent structures.
It is useful to distinguish three forms of emergence structures. First-order emergence structures occurs as a result of shape interactions (for example, hydrogen bonds in water molecules lead to surface tension). Second-order emergence structures involves shape interactions played out sequentially over time (for example, changing atmospheric conditions as a snowflake falls to the ground build upon and alter its form). Finally, third-order emergence structures is a consequence of shape, time, and heritable instructions. For example, an organism's genetic code sets boundary conditions on the interaction of biological systems in space and time.
Algorithmic Botany: Branching structure in 3D
Raybranch288
For the creation of urban textures we will rely on the use of third-order emergence structures. The students will follow a set of rules that will create a complex entity evolving in four dimensions.
Rules:
Extensive vs Intensive (3)
Stratification
Connectivity
Gradients
Transitions
This five issues will cover, in varying combinations of three, the student's projects and the scrutiny of the issue of emergence and complexity. The analysis of complex systems that are sensitive to its initial conditions differs from the issue of chaotic systems, as clearly stated by Colander(4) the study of complexity is the opposite of the study of chaos. Complexity is about how a huge number of extremely complicated and dynamic set of relationships can generate some simple behavioural patterns, whereas chaotic behaviour, in the sense of deterministic chaos, is the result of a relatively small number of non-linear interactions (Cilliers, 1998).
Complex systems may exhibit behaviors that are emergent, which is to say that while the results may be deterministic, they may have properties that can only be studied at a higher level. For example, the termites in a mound have physiology, biochemistry and biological development that are at one level of analysis, but their social behavior and mound building is a property that emerges from the collection of termites and needs to be analysed at a different level.
The rules will be applied in a twofold process:
First the creation of a material behaviour based model.
This models will explore the behavior of one material (plaster) in different levels of viscosity on a large scale model, bearing specific constraints eleborated by the students following the rules above (stratification, connectivity ea.) the results are shaped by various intensive forces (form in combination with gravity, flow forces, varying viscosity, friction..) The matter of emergence as a system for the generation of advanced behaviour in an urban texture.
Selforganization4
Analogue modeling of selforganizational patterns ©SPAN2006
The result of this models are further scrutinized by translating the selforganizational qualities into a machinic language. The analysis of the analogue model serves as a guideline for the development of digital design tactics. The models are moved into a machinic environment, wether this is by manual measurement, in an extensive process, or other measuring methods is up to the student. The importance of this step lies in the abbility of the student to interpret the intensive process applied to the first model in order to understand the potentials for an urban pattern (he density of the scaffold, variations in density and also behavioral densities). It is by no mean necessary to translate the analogue model in a literal way, but more important to understand the conceptual forces driving form, program, growth of urban patterns, textures, porosities, chromatics, gradients, and scale.
One of the main points withim this exploration will be the scrutiny of the models in terms of performance as an urban condition.
Pavilion2213
TopMod Models exploring various degrees of porosity (maxwellrender).©SPAN2006
In a further process the students have to find their own sets of rules based on the observations and conclusions from the physical model, this rules are the base for the projects development into a synthetic ecology by the use of a topological mesh modeling software. The problem of material behaviour and selforganization is interweaved with the problem of Topology and Selfconnectivity, thus the use of TopMod as a potential tool for the examination of the problem. The Software faccilitates the creation of digitally fabricated models that will buid one part of the final presentation.
Por6
3D printed model of one porous exploration. ©SPAN2006
The students are supposed to work an a single site in a communal effort. The site is divided among the students in order to create variaty within the site, constrains in form of the neccesary connectivity between the various projects have to be elaborated by the students.
Schedule:
1: Analogue Model, based on chickenwire and plaster, students have to follow varying agendas. The model has to measure a minimum of 1m x 1m
2: Translation of the model into TopMod & Maya
3: Abstract machines: explanatory maps and plans of the concepts and observation results out of both the analogue and the digital model.
In 1:500 scale.
4: 3D printed model of crucial points of the design, depicting the discovered framework based on the rules (Extensive vs Intensive, Stratification, Connectivity, etc) The models have to be nested within a milled base of the site.
5: Two A4 pages minimum TxT explaining the conceptual background as well as the exploration in terms of performance within an urban texture.
6: For the final presentation we will rely on a strict basic graphic and model representation for everyone. I.e.: Layout, font, model scales…
Acompaining workshops & lectures:
1: Introduction into TopMod
2: Lecture on Machine Learning
3: Troubleshooting in Zprint
Reading List for Students:
D´Arcy Thompson: On Growth and Form
Stephen Hyde: The Language of Shape
Ernst Haeckl: Artforms in Nature
Jaap A. Kaandorp: The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory)
Notes:
1: Goldstein, Jeffrey (1999): "Emergence as a Construct: History and Issues", Emergence: Complexity and Organization 1: 49-72
2: Stochastic, from the Greek word “Stochos” (Aim, Guess, means of, relating to) is characterised by conjecture and randomness. A stochastic process is one whose behaviour is non-deterministic in that a state does not fully determine its next state.
3: See also the paper “The machinic phylum” by Manuel de Landa, as well as :Manuel DeLanda & Peter Lamborn Wilson , 'Cities and Theories of Self Organization'
Manuel DeLanda: ‘Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture’
4: Colander, D. (2000): The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics, E. Elgar, Northampton, MA.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1. Topology
being in one body with different shapes, connectivity,communication in differency
2. Transition
key words : The difficulty in description, dynamism, being not normal...
3. Stratification
Key words: Continuity, differency, wholeness, consolidation, spiral movement...
process
manipulation of the wire
plaster
analyses
topmod& maya application ( coming soon because of the program problem with my computer as soon as I could solve this problem!!!)) is there any version of maya that I can download again from internet!!!??*)
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