On Growth and Form Beyond

edited by Philip Beesley

This book's title refers to: On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson


Also:


[Image: Detail from Hylozoic Ground; courtesy of Philip Beesley Architect].
from http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/hives-and-valves-filters-and-membranes.html

For Swarming patterns:
http://one-to-many.blogspot.com/



Architecture of Variations edited by Lars Spuybroek
consists of three parts:
Essays on Uniformity and Variety
Figure-Configuration Taxonomies
Textile Catalog Houses


http://artbutcher.blogspot.com/

Peel Street Caves

'[Image: A 3D laser scan of the Peel Street Caves—actually a former sand mine beneath the city—courtesy of the Nottingham Caves Survey].
It's hard to resist a note that says a "new cave" has been "uploaded," but the Nottingham Caves Survey—previously mentioned here—has announced just that, putting 3D laser scans of the incredible Peel Street Caves on their website.
Like smoke rings breaking apart and slowly looping inside the planet, their near-endless recursivity makes it almost impossible to see where they begin.'
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/peel-street-caves.html

Sense of the CIty

'Sense of the City explores urban phenomena and perceptions of the city which have traditionally been ignored, repressed, or maligned. Challenging the dominance of the visual in the urban environment, the exhibition proposes a re-thinking of latent qualities of the city, offering complex analyses of the comforts, communication systems, and sensory dimensions of urban life—thus advancing a new spectrum of experience and engagement.'

http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/cca-recommends/126-sense-of-the-city

Examples - others

http://phillipcameron.info/projects/Live-Wire-Stairwell/

More 'spatial' stairs: http://www.dezeen.com/tag/staircases/

Rachel Whiteread's Drawing Exhibition at Tate Britain:http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/rachelwhitereaddrawings/


Deegan Day Design, an architectural installation at the SCI-Arc Gallery 2009


Voussoir Cloud by IwamotoScott


Student Works: Rock and Roll Fantasy - SCI-Arc at Coachella: Elastic Plastic Sponge

Examples - Material & Geometry

Look up the examples in terms of material, surface geometry, structure and space.


skypod

mobile-performance-venue-by-various-architects-squ-va-mpv-centralpark


new-amsterdam-plein-pavilion-by-ben-van-berkel-pavilion_at_night

Googled, Inflatible

Zaha Hadid's temporary "eco-pavilion" for Chicago

Googled, Aesopglass




AA Summer Pavilion 2009 & 2008
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/07/03/driftwood-pavilion-by-aa-unit-2-opens/
http://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/15/swoosh-pavilion-at-the-architectural-association/

Examples - Design Process II

Images from Metropolitan Works, Model-making workshop
Metropolitan Works is London’s leading Creative Industries Centre, helping designers and manufacturers develop ideas and bring new products to the marketplace through access to digital manufacturing, workshops, knowledge transfer, advice, courses and exhibitions.
http://www.metropolitanworks.org/about_us/

Examples - Design Process I

credit. Yeojoong Yang, 2003-2004, Diploma Work





credit. Ezhil Vigneswaran, AA DRL 2006-2007

Ezhil and Yeojoong studied at the AA. They are currently working in Gensler London and actively engaged in a design research-learning group, DiGitaLab with Taeyoung in Gensler.

Study model

Choose the materials best expressing the spatial characters of the lab.
Choose a structure best working for the mechanism of the lab.
- monolithic surface,repetitive but gradient frames
- net,inflatable,folded structure


David Greene, *Locally Available World unseen Networks" see the post below (101020)


"Los Angeles architects Stefan Rutzinger and Kristina Schinegger have designed Synaesthetic Filter, a proposed mobile pavilion for experimental music that can change shape to alter acoustic qualities during a performance."

"Synaesthetic filter – a mobile pavilion for experimental music
Synaesthetic filter is a mobile instrument for experimental music that can stage performances from scenic plays to sound installations and is supposed to be temporarily assembled in public interior spaces."
http://www.dezeen.com/2009/01/18/synaesthetic-filter-by-stefan-rutzinger-kristina-schinegger/#more-23491


(left) breathing column
(right) breathing column detail
images © pierre charron
"'hylozoic ground', canada's official national pavilion for this year's la biennale di venezia,is an experimental piece of architecture that explores the qualities of contemporary wilderness. designed by canadian architect and sculptor philip beesley, the installation is constructed out of an intricate system of transparent acrylic meshwork links, covered with a network of interactive mechanical fronds, filters, and whiskers. the root of the project's name, 'hylozoism', refers to the ancient belief that all matter has life. true to its source, the whole installation functions similarly to a giant lung, breathing in and out around its occupants. the interactive piece of architecture responds to human presence and movement by tens of thousands of lightweight digitally-fabricated components which are fitted with microprocessors and proximity sensors."
www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/11316/venice-architecture-biennale-2010-canadian-pavilion.html


"Norwegian practice Various Architects have sent us these images of their design for a mobile pavilion, one of three finalists in a competition organised by Yorkshire Forward.The project is constructed from a network of inflatable tubes that are arranged in a pattern derived from the atomic structure of diamonds."

http://www.dezeen.com/2009/02/28/the-yorkshire-diamond-pavilion-by-various-architects/#more-25327

http://
"inflatable sculpture, an inflatable structure made up of textile "patches" sewn together in a repeating pattern."
http://www.popgadget.net/2004/11/inflatable_scul.php



Smout Allen, Retreating Village
“Our proposal for a retreating village of small houses and streets is deployed in the disintegrating territory between the sea and the land. The village reacts to predicted rates of retreat, as much as five meters per year, by sliding and shifting to safer land. To achieve this the scheme employs a mechanical landscape of winches, pulleys, rails, and counterweights, mimicking techniques for hauling boats from the waves. It also adopts [from a millennia's worth of garden and landscape design?] an architectural language of impermanence, of permeable screens, loose-fit structures, and cheap materials that complement and contribute to the nature of the restless landscape.”
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2007/09/retreating-village.html

Case study - High Houses, Slow House, Cuishicle

The case study of the project that you traced today will form a part of your portfolio.

High houses, Reconstruction of Sarajevo, Lebbeus Woods
Slow house, Diller+Scofidio
Cuishicle, Archigram

1. choose one from the three
2. research why it is 'high' houses, or 'slow' house, or 'instant' dwelling unit- Cuishicle (Cuishicle is a "Speculative design for a personal, individual and portable dwelling unit which may be ‘worn’ for transport and unpacked for occupation." http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/project.php?id=92)
3. identify how the design delivered the idea of 'high', 'slow', or 'instant' house using the term, mechanism, space, structure, surface...
4. highlight the components that are relevant to you lab design and show how you 'adapted' it.

from Device to Lab

These are some students' work from the Bartlett School of 2007.

A device can be exploded or unfolded to make a lab.


See the spatial trails marked by the device.


The relationship between a device and a lab - use the device mechanism for a lab but its form or space needs to be adjusted to accommodate the functions of a lab.

Ad mobilis

project 1b. Ad mobilis

My line in blurbing poetry has usually been the take it or leave it attitude - with the implication - this is F&F (fact & fiction) poetry… [yet] that is not the best advertising method, T. S. Eliot

You continue expressing, here, not in the form of monologue but incipient dialogue, that is, to bring up an intimate relationship between yourself and another person (e.g. your classmate). For the task, you transform the prosthetic mechanism (1a) into a lab which not merely accommodates you but allows you to exchange the means and contents of identification with the other. Half-enclosed, or more or less, it shall be capable of moving within the range of the site. It shall be spatially interactive, perhaps even transformable, yet in a rather two-dimensional way, as corresponding to the almost horizontal topography of the site. Operating the lab, you go deeper than perceptual interpretation. You encode and decode identities together with a particular historical layer embedded in the site to provide a preliminary infrastructure sharable for further blurbing.


term: 4 weeks
design:a lab whereby you blurb about yourself (your site, your prosthetic device) in relation to another
tasks: see below
options:intensity of use - from pastime/chatting to working and living
range of movement, speed, cycle
level of autonomy in relation to urban infrastructure
- e.g. solar panel surfacing - electricity, water purification

refs:
Georges Perec, 1998, Species of spaces and other pieces
Anthony Vidler, 1994, The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Krzysztof Wodiczko, 1999, Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews
(http://atelier7othersworks.blogspot.com/)
Aaron Betsky, 2003, Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio

Archigram, Capsule Homes


Archigram,Cushicle


tasks:
Week 4 (26 Oct) - Lab mechanism
Transform the mechanism of your prosthetic device into a lab
- Lab:
a spatial unit that allows you to work (blurb about your site and activity) inside and interact/converse with another person either inside or outside
- should be mobile

Process:
-Define a spatial boundary, surfaces for an enclosure, openings for interactions
with the physical site contexts, and circulation of yourself and your guest.
-semi-indoor & outdoor
- Research the historical layers of your site to incorporate them into your blurb.
‘The street/place was used for….lived by…. well known for….’

Outcome:
- Site plan collage of your lab and historical layer
- Your BLURB
- Description of lab (100 words) – what is it/what does it do/what do I do there
- Plan diagrams (of boundaries, surfaces, circulations)
- Section

Week 5 (2 Nov) - 3d rhino model
Outcome: site plan, plans, sections, elevations, perspectives exported from rhino model

Week 6. (9 Nov) - Study of Integrated Surface, Space and Structure
Process:
-Use the drawings exported from the 3d model as a base
-Develop the spatial arrangement, surface and structural mechanism, materials.

Week 7. (16 Nov) - Complete Ad-Mobilis

Earlier Outcomes:
- Site plan collage of your lab and historical layer
- Description of lab(100 words) – what is it/what does it do/what do I do there
- Plan diagrams (of boundaries, surfaces, circulations)
- Section Perspective

Final Outcomes:
-‘ Your BLURB’
- Site plan (show how the lab responds to the context)
- Plans (show how the lab is used, enclosed and open, how you and your guest circulates around)

see also- http://atelier7previousworks.blogspot.com/