Wednesday, 2 December 2009

History and theory lecture 2/12/09

Jacquard Loom, invented by joseph Louis Jacquard (1752-1834)
invented or perfected this device for automating textile weaving.
complex patterns could be “programmed” via punch cards.
(image of machine jacquard Loom)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
Duplicated, reproducing, not really generating ideas. Mechanical devices which make complex brain operations, mathematical complexes. A line to the development of industrialisation and commodities development .
Lyon = important silk city
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon

Beginning of complex movements by mechanically.

Charles Babbage, the Difference Engine (1822) was an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Both logarithmic and trigonometric functions can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful sets of numbers. the analytical machines, able to perform complex mathematical tasks, using punch cards.
Compute and fast solutions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine

Lay cathedral of culture : Gehry's Guggenheim museum, Bilboa.
At the time it signify a new departure; to have new buildings layed down with meanings, religion which at the time is more devissive than buildings and communities.
"Normal/traditional" buildings were nice and neutral and appeals to every body. New art buildings not the fusty british museum type, something that says that culture and art is very much part of our worlds, higher status for architects, Guggenheim was an iconic pattern breaker.

Frank Gehry doodles and draws, he talks people through it and makes lots of paper models. Frank Gehry pioneered the use of digital fabrication in the 1990s

His primary inspiration is sculptures. Richard Serra . translate complex drawings .
Frank Gehry, concept sketch and finished walt disney concert hall, LA, 1988-1999 (IMG)
transforming application from one to another. (auto CAD)

Lewis Residence, 1995. ink on paper. gehry partners, LLP
structural properties built in to the equation + computer.

Peter B. Lewis Design Process Models, 1992 Mixed media (plaster, wood, metal screen, paper)
A reaction of visualisation of the mechanical calculation

Lewis Residence: Final Design model, 1995. Milled paper, basswood, acrylic, museum board.

'we must use the new instruments to address old architectural problems; not to create new problems.'

Programme, plan and floor are based on movement each time, while perception only comes into place later, when walls and partition are being designed. human activities, the continuity of habits and routines, experience: these are what should influence the whole geometry of the building. Perception and movement are one; experience and programme
NOX architects, water exhibition centre 1997

Collect data of what the inhibition of a particular area, what were reacting and thinking.. etc
meant to visualize water, it would be a experience of being inside a fish.

D-tower, built in Doetinchem 2004 the Netherlands, is a sculpture where the intensive (feelings, qualia) ad the extensive space quantities exchange roles, where human action, color, money, value, feelings all become networked entities

designed by NOX architectures, the tower is connected to a website in 2 different ways.

1. The websites is a visualization of the responses of the 45,000 inhabitants of Doetinchem to a questionnaire which deals with emotions like hate, love, happiness and fear.

2.the four emotions are represented by four colours, green red and yellow
architecture between communication and information
oosterhuis. nl, Noord-Holland pavilion for the florida 2002 exhibition
the free unfurling of the function that, from an industrial of view, represented the idea of an expanding machine now increasingly tends to be replaced by a logic based on the space between, there is a tendency to work in between also because we are forced to do so by the presence of existing buildings, the idea of efficient building structures and frameworks is replaced by the formula 'engineering is the art of the possible'
Antonino Saggio


“Gehry is shape-driven ” says Shop partner Gregg Pasquarelli

“we're more process driven. we would never build an elaborate frame work to support a curve. we'd let the curve be determined by information from our materials suppliers or by the parameters of the fabrication techniques.”

290 mulberry , NYC ship architects
molded by nature, but in-fact was molded all by computer calculation

The obsession with organic shapes, ability of the new computers to algorithms.
fascination with organic forms, because it is possible to calculate. to make it look it was a result of some tectonic pressure

the Yas hotel, Abu-Dabi , uae 2007-2009 by Asymptote: Hani Rashid + Lise Anne couture


Glass tower. La Cienega and Jefferson, LA
completion: proposed
Architect: Eric Owen Moss Architects
parametric design
http://aedesign.wordpress.com

http://morphopedia.com/projects/pharestower
morphosis, Phare tower project, Paris

Morphosis Giant Group Campus
the giant campus is a compact village that accommodates divers programmatic function i a flexible frame work of architectural forms that move into and out of a sculpted landscape.

michael Hanseyer:2004
portfolio.com/L_Systems/ls7.html
Lindenmayer systems in architecture nature's growth processes as generators of architectural design: turtle graphics with branching
Replication through software + graphics = fancy stuff

Fly through animation for Guange Zou, Zha hadid 2005
(animation)

Fly through is something that works within a computer generated space. super man vision.

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