Emergent Density

Emergent Density Final Review

2007-07-22T23:18:00.000+02:00

Final review of the Emergent Density module. Friday 20th of July 2007:
The last weeks of work culminated in the final review. The board of critics included Oliver Bertram, head of the company Different Futures and Assistant at Greg Lynns studio of the Angewandte and Rainer Zettl, Assistant at W.D. Prix studio and main coordinator of Urban Strategies. The allover quality of the body of work was appreciated by the board, and some good advises were given about possible further proceedings with the learnt design strategies. It was interesting to see that despite the general design strategy the final results formed a variety of possible solutions. Some projects approched the problem by creating an allover connected architectural entity. Other approaches included the dissolving of mass in fibrous entities, and the creation of cellular aggregations.

GroupPresentation

2007-07-20T18:10:00.000+02:00

Chfwu79 Pres

2007-07-20T17:30:00.000+02:00

Miha Volgemut pres

2007-07-20T17:14:00.000+02:00

TOPOLOGY

One continuous surface

EXTENSIVE vs. INTENSIVE

Building is not measurable, it is configurated with changeable parameters.

STRATIFICATION

Interdependent layering of floors - usable outside area of floors.

EMERGING POPULATION

MANIPULATION MAP

TOPMOD SCREENSHOT

PROJECT

Deformation of topology

Creating architectural condition

Urban body...interiorization of streets...redefining the communication corridors

Researching urban anatomy...area of the site: 700x450m

Section 1 - urban scale

Section 2 - architectural scale

Cityscape

3D print

ReinhardPres

2007-07-20T15:46:00.001+02:00

Gradient

Stratification

Topology

AbstractMachines

Analysis

Analysis

Strategie for the final result

Final result

Model

Aspern area

YuePres

2007-07-20T15:34:00.000+02:00

paluePres

2007-07-20T15:30:00.000+02:00

Gradient:

Eifel Tower, Paris

Topology:

WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, Leidsche Rijn, Netherlands 1998

Transition:

Holocaust Memorial at Berlin, Peter Eisenman

Abstract Machines:

Extensive Maps:

wire manipulations
creating two models
1. model: deformation of the plane surface into a tube
2. model: changing the genus of the surface through additional openings

Intensive Maps
Focus on effects:

Machinic Translations:

Creating three affiliated cells:

Different Viewpoints of the three cells:

Agglomeration of the three affiliated cells

WebThomyPres

2007-07-20T15:22:00.000+02:00

Gradient

Stratification

Transition

AbstractMachines

ExtensiveMap

IntensiveMap

focus on stratification effects

section analysis

Model1

Model2

Model3

Model4

PinUpAbstractMachines1

2007-07-19T15:51:00.000+02:00

PinUpAbstractMachines2

2007-07-19T15:48:00.000+02:00

PinUpabstractMachines3

2007-07-19T15:43:00.000+02:00

Miha Volgemut, 3D Print1

2007-07-19T08:34:00.000+02:00

Here you can see some images of Miha´s Model,
also fresh out of the printer and dedusted. You can compare it to the project here.

Something important for those who have to pic up their model at the 3D Fabrication Lab of the Angewandte. You should get a Spray can of clear acrylic paint and cover your models with a coat of paint. This increases the stability of the model. You will have to be careful with this models anyways, but it helps.

ZülfiyeIntensive Map

2007-07-19T07:34:00.000+02:00

"Spiral Reality" (2)

The parts with transition. Like paravane but the thing continue in wholeness.
From inside to outside to the other dynamic in terms of changes but in the same time could be able to read as history and the ability to have description in the whole system.
The vertical rise and horizontal movement. From one to the other parts connections and same points..

Regarding to concept and its elements

Basic issues & instruments:
•Dynamism
•Harmony-Topographic wholeness
•Differency but relationship / more than communicaiton !
•Spiral Shape: it looks the same if you observe the movement but always different in fact.

You see the spiral movement you think you are in the same spiral movement-yes it is- but not in the same spiral ( the same point of the spiral) the movement is the same but the material is not and also behavioral changes form the reality..

The points are unique and that are not developing in linear way but spiral and more connected to each other .

Yesterday ( history) today and tomorrow are connected but always different means in different point in the spiral reality but they are communicating to each other instead of creating the reality again, connecting this to the existing one and creating together the “future one “…

This saves energy!

Things could seem as “same” but this is actually “similarity” and you see the differency if you focus on. Differency not so much visible to express themselves so much but a little bit in order to describe and put them in the correct order .That is the point .

If you make some of them much more visible than the others then the balance will change ..!

MIhaUrban body II

2007-07-17T23:06:00.000+02:00

MihaUrban body

2007-07-17T10:04:00.000+02:00

I am now researching urban conditions in the model of dimensions 700 x 450m. It is revealing itself as an urban body... a house and a city at one time. The communication corridors are organic - continuous, that means there's no distinction between street, hallway, stairs, elevator, subway... they are all interiorised and intertwined with each other, there are electric cars and transportation. The anatomy of the object is similar to the living body anatomy with veins, organs and functions. So this urban body is a building block, neighborhood and a city center at one time. Beside highly internal connectivity it is also connected to outside world with subway and car traffic under the ground. Quality of living and working in such a "city" is just a state of evolutionary adaptation of humans to environmental conditions. Our environment is rapidly changing, the direct sun is more and more harmful and the daylight is disturbing factor in the digital environment, also outside air is polluted, especially on the streets with traffic smog and noise. And for experiencing the outside qualities there is still a lot of outside space in the holes of the body, from small ones to large public squares, which are a matter of choice and not the necessity.
I am also wandering about the consciousness of the body. Consciousness of the city is the place of terrible mistake, where something is going terribly wrong. Consciousness is dynamic, but can we capture it in the moment with identifiable space/object? Maybe just half real and half symbolic - object out of context, ruining the space configuration, disturbing the balance... So, I placed the cultural program in the charismatic corner of the body, where something is not right, mutation of topology is creating new condition, new exit.

P.S. I am trying to make 3d model more precise with some urban and architectural elements, but it's hardly possible with mesh mode. How can I transform mash object into surface?

Reinhard Hacker 3D print 1

2007-07-15T20:43:00.000+02:00

Here are a couple of images fresh out of the 3D manufacturing Lab of the Angewandte. The model is "still warm" so to speak. This is the 1:500 section model of Reinhard Hackers project. Which shows us right away Do´s and Dont´s of 3D printing..

And this it what happens if you make your model pieces too skinny, they just fall apart when you try to get the out of the dust of the 3D printer:

chfwu79MachinicTranslation1

2007-07-14T00:00:00.000+02:00

_ intensive vs extensive
Genotype

I try to use two different manipulations to transform genotype into phenotype.

I. Based on the temporal condition (the same viewpoint but at different time)

(Phenotype is the interaction between genotype and the environment)

II. Based on the spatial condition (some quality of space was creared)

PS. I am not sure whether "these bones" could be printed. Any suggestion ?

WebthomyMachinicTranslation1

2007-07-13T19:33:00.000+02:00

hi, please note...my images are already only screen prints...and i will do some sections for my analysis...

SaM: your goal was to create a kind of 'gradient of openings' through manipulation of the wire by cutting out openings of different sizes- in addition to the existing hexagonal micro openings of the wire itself. Then you applied the plaster in layers (please add a description of the individual layer's viscosity, e.g. viscosity was nearly the same or I started with layers of low viscosity....; add an approximate number of layers, direction of application)

SaM: Your analysis of the stratification should also cover the various layers that created this expected and unexpected results (think about varying line weight for each plaster application)
then you write about the exciting effects that were created through the aggregation of the plaster around the mid-size? openings.(here you should point out which openings in the wire created this effect)
To demonstrate and examine the cause and effects of this process you are focusing from now on, and that will form the basis for the development of your project, you need a SECTIONAL analysis of the plaster model too.

SaM: Good start,
just two comments:
In your physical model several layers of - we guess - high viscous plaster created this voluptious areas and spaces we've been talking about at the last table crit. (the sectional analysis of your plaster model will help you create more intricate connections)
Within your digital model you tried - too fast - to come to an result that can be interpreted as an architectural or urbanistic situation - the layering effect that created this overhanging effects is missing.
You are right by writing that this structure is open ended, but by repeating the method you apply for your digital model endlessly you might reach a dead end.
1. Think how the method you applied horizontally might develop gradually into a vertical system.
and/or
2. add elements of disturbance or disruption to your system - we want to develop methodologies and design strategies that create behavioural elements, elements that have the capacity to create something unexpected. For example: This moments of disruption or distortion could start at a micro scale taking over or dying back/off as the method is deployed into verticality etc.etc...

ZulfiyeMachinicTranslation1

2007-07-13T14:13:00.000+02:00

Top Mod Modelling

ReinhardMachinicTranslation1

2007-07-13T09:06:00.001+02:00

Final Review 20th of July...

2007-07-12T20:32:00.000+02:00

Dear Students:
We have confirmation for our final Review: It will take place Friday the 20th of July.
Guests will include Wolf. D. Prix, Reiner Zettl and Oliver Bertram.
It will be an evening session from 6pm to 7.30pm. So everyone of you will have aprox. 15 min. of time from presenting. So rehearse your presentations, and densify them to the max! Press the juice out of it!

Furthermore there will be the chance to 3D print on this weekend at the Angewandte, so get in contact with me if you want to make use of the chance, which I highly recommend.

One more thing: Post your results in the blog, we haven´t seen much lately!

PalueMachinicTranslation3Comment

2007-07-12T12:23:00.000+02:00

Thank you Palue for keeping us informed

We'd like you to keep focused on the second step of your work - the green series

As we still think that the maps are an important step in the development of your projects here we posted a few suggestions:
you started creating a tubular and a planar physical model

then you've been analyzing your planar model focusing on the stratification effects depicted on this image

overlapping your tubular and planar physical model created the basis for your project

you started analyzing the planar model - in the following images we provide you with a possible analysis of the tubular model, which should help you (and all others on the blog) to overcome the massing problem and to create the swellings we are talking about constantly ;)

the next images focus on the good start of the 3D translation into the digital model

the model already translates the ideas of massing and stratification effects starting in the center, but also how this swellings would behave on the additional handles (red rectangle)

here the representation of the stratification process is depicted most successfully

gravitational effects are created - also on the left were the boundary condition starts to dissolve by forcing it -carefully - from a planar condition into 3D

PalueMachinicTranslation3

2007-07-12T12:13:00.001+02:00

Rind Modeling (Thickness)

2007-07-11T18:28:00.000+02:00

Hello!

One further question - is rind modeling necessary to print our models? As we experienced while launching rind modeling "negative effects" emerge.

Concerning printing I will start off tomorrow !

Speed Pinup, Thursday July 5th.

2007-07-06T23:51:00.000+02:00

PaluesMachinicTranslation2

2007-07-06T20:56:00.000+02:00

My latest model! Sorry for the bad renderings . . . I realized a thikness surface and concerning the design I tried to emerge space, density and connected with the appearence of density gradient behaviour. Further I tried to reach a certain agglomeratio of mass at the edges (as we can obeserve it in the plastermodels) of the model - but this effect is unfortunately more visible in the TopMod model! I will see what I can do during the day to get a more mass like structure - means adding some more structural elements in TopMod . . .

. . . . . first these pictures as a new approach! In my opinion here especailly the gradient behaviour and the emergence of topological space appear. Local dense areas are stressed as you can see in the front view and in the side view lower densed areas on the right side of the model.

Front view

Side view

Top view

Top view

Side view

Top Side view

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Hey ! Here is one possible prototype! Further extensions will follow for tomorrow . . .

At the same time I am working on the description concerning the terms! Yes for sure ! . . . and the maps will be added too on the blog . . . .

Update . . . . there are not really changes made; because - to be honest - I lost for a moment my conviction AND one further step with the right above model which is not visible here produced an error importing him to Maya! I dont know why. So I started with the model you see at the top!

3dprint of "one" part of the entire model

2007-07-06T18:03:00.000+02:00

Hey ! !

Matias, please could you you give a short description how the 3dprint of "one" part of the entire model works in Zprint. You told Reinhard how it works . . . i will try to figure it out by myslef but there are still other things which are more important now!

thx a lot,

Peter

YuePresMachinicTranslation050707

2007-07-05T11:40:00.001+02:00

chfwu79PresMachinicTranslation050707

2007-07-05T10:14:00.000+02:00

PaluePresMachinicTranslation050707

2007-07-05T06:33:00.000+02:00

Gradient Term:

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 Term:

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.

Topological Term:

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.

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.).

Approaches modelling a UrbanMonster by TopMod:

First steps with TopMod creating a simple grid like structure

First steps with TopMod creating a grid like structure

First steps with TopMod creating a grid like structure

Second step connecting simple grid like structure with a medium like plaster

. . . adding a plane to the TopMod object !

MihaPresMachinicTranslation050707

2007-07-04T23:35:00.000+02:00

Topology
The volume and the number of holes is fixed.

Extensive vs. intensive
Extensive parameters are proximity, hight, depth... of building volumes.
Intensive forces create the urban field - high rises in the middle deform the grid and create large public spaces - emergent density in the center of the field.

Stratification
...is effect of court deformation to public space. Their architectonic is climatic shelters for public areas.

HackerReinhardPresMachinicTranslation050707

2007-07-04T07:36:00.000+02:00

Turn existing situation into small public place

Turn existing situation into urban building blocks

Turn existing situation into high density areas - skyscraper

Turn existing situation into big open public square

What you can see here is more a urban abstract conzept as a real based masterplan

The system is open to the neighborhood - This kind of "arms" can be the connection between different districts

The system is smooth, flexible and open for all

The way of thinking is 3D or 4D not 2D (figure-ground planning,...)

MihaMachinicTranslationFirstTry

2007-07-02T23:36:00.000+02:00

It's an area about 400x700m. I took measures of city blocks as an extensive tectonic and as topological elements, which changes shape, typology (blocks to towers)...?(It's a delicate and not very accurate I know...will think further) Dancing dynamics of blocks is run by forces, which are intensive moments...?
I can't think of stratification yet, maybe it'll come to my mind...
I don't know yet how to avoid grid when we are designing city, I'll think further. At least will go towards less rigid grid...

TMIntroduction

2007-07-01T15:54:00.000+02:00

Yue time schedule

2007-06-30T13:38:00.000+02:00

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?

ZulfiyeManipulationMaps2

2007-06-29T20:23:00.000+02:00

Spiral Emergence

ZülfiyeManipulationMaps

2007-06-28T14:23:00.000+02:00

Process of Modelling - " Spiral Reality "

YueManipulationMaps

2007-06-28T13:24:00.001+02:00

chfwu79ManipulationMaps

2007-06-28T12:24:00.000+02:00

MihaManipulationMaps

2007-06-26T21:10:00.000+02:00

Thursday: TopMod & Speed Pinup

2007-06-26T10:32:00.000+02:00

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.

Model Analysis

2007-06-25T00:54:00.000+02:00

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

YueAbstractMachine

2007-06-24T23:22:00.000+02:00

ZülfiyeAbstractMachine

2007-06-24T23:15:00.000+02:00

The dynamics of the movement and form gives us opportunity to have different type and layer on the surface. This include connectivity/ tpology together with stratification on continous movement and always has transition inside regarding to the horizantal reality..

HackerReinhardAbstractMachine

2007-06-24T22:03:00.000+02:00

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

PalueAbstractMachine

2007-06-24T22:01:00.000+02:00

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 . . .

MihaAbstractMachine

2007-06-24T21:53:00.000+02:00

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.

WebthomyAbstractMachine

2007-06-24T08:11:00.000+02:00

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

Out of the dustbin.....

2007-06-23T20:40:00.001+02:00

Abstract Machine7
Originally uploaded by spanpix

....and into the documentation.
Nice example of selforganizational behaviour by populations of molecules..

TopMod Download

2007-06-23T18:02:00.002+02:00

For next weeks session, please download the topological mesh modeling Software TopMod.
You can find it here.
you can find a couple of instructional videos here.

HackerReinhardTerminology1

2007-06-23T12:47:00.000+02:00

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

ZülfiyeTerminology1

2007-06-23T12:41:00.000+02:00

Transition

The new ity project key transformation project

Neigbourhood concept by turgut cansever

Stratification

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

The complex system during the city changes..

chfwu79Terminology1

2007-06-23T11:18:00.000+02:00

Transition

Stratification

Population 1950

Population 2015

Barcelona 1859

Barcelona 2007

ExtensiveIntensive

(la Biennale di Venezia- Cities. Architecture and Society vol.I)

YueTerminology1

2007-06-23T11:08:00.001+02:00

Topology-Gradients-Transitions

Topology

Spiro Kostof-

Stratification
OMA Winning competition entry for two libraries on the Jussieu campus in Paris

ExtensiveIntensive

Shanghai Bund-

PalueTerminology1

2007-06-23T10:52:00.000+02:00

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.

MihaTerminology1

2007-06-23T10:17:00.000+02:00

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/Eppacher

Zaha Hadid Olympic Village

Urban topology can be perhaps related to "population thinking". The same genetic code generates different phenotypes.

WebthomyTerminology1

2007-06-23T10:11:00.000+02:00

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

2007-06-22T21:30:00.000+02:00

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)

2007-06-22T15:55:00.000+02:00

Concerning the term "gradient" I found this very interesting project on the office page of Sandra and Matias www.span-arch.com

2007-06-21T16:27:00.000+02:00

Manuel DeLanda: ‘Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture’

2007-06-21T16:07:00.001+02:00

Emergent Density - Module Outline

2007-06-19T15:26:00.000+02:00

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.

2007-06-06T04:18:00.000+02:00

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!!!??*)