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Mat-Systems, Material-Organizations: Silicon Hills Technology Park
Introduction
To regulate systems—existing and designed—is the role of the contemporary architect. Systems are governing practices, rule sets, manners of assembly, part-to-whole relationships, and networks. Increasingly, architectural design can be understood as the management of interrelations and degrees of correspondence between multiple systems—technical, structural, material, ecological, infrastructural, and sociocultural.
The influence of abstract organizational principles on corporeal/material constructs will be a central point of examination for design research. The studio will frame the horizontal spatial planning practices of mat-building typologies and the vertical material constructs of thickened wall-surfaces as distinct but reciprocally related forms of material-organization—systems that exhibit a predisposition toward continuity and a potential for differentiation. We will invent novel systems of organization at the intersection of visual and spatial fields, with the promise of eliciting new formations capable of providing diverse social ecologies and alternative performative characteristics.
Our investigation will depart from traditional modular organizations (uniform and repetitive) in favor of systems of complex repetition. Modernist architectural space sought to establish consistency between parts and wholes through modular logics made possible by the processes of industrialization; these methods relied on regulating systems and planning grids to organize space, particularly in plan organizations. While modules are stable or homogeneous systems of elements that can only be replicated or aggregated, complex repetition is an example of part-to-whole patterning that can become locally specific. While early attempts at complex patterning systems were still periodic (based on filling space with more varied yet still fixed parts), new tools allow us to explore aperiodic and non-recursive part-to-whole relationships, based on variable but specifiable parts and geometries. The studio will explore the possibility to organize flexible part-to-whole relationships that can grow and differentiate to produce complex material-organizations.
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- New Scheme_Plan;Zoom-in / Site+Building mass Secti...
- Interim Review_Study Models_Sanghyuk
- Interim Review_Building Design_Sanghyuk
- Interim Review_Site and Programmatic strategy_Sang...
- Interim Review_Abstract System_Sanghyuk
- Ik Joo, Lee(mid term review)
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- I have discreased the area that my project takes,...
- Benjamin-oct-22
- 10-22-08 Site Strategy
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- Sanghyuk_21 Oct, 2008_urban strategy
- Sanghyuk_21 Oct, 2008_framework + program
- Sanghyuk_21 Oct, 2008_building footprint+layers
- Sanghyuk_21 Oct, 2008_study model
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- SERGIO'S SCHEMES
- Benjamin-oct.21
- Daniel digital post
- Daniel digital post
- This a schematic model of my possible structure
- Use existing building language:research facility a...
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- Vili: Presentation #3
- Daniel carving ribbons
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- Seth: Presentation #3
- Section-case study_sanghyuk_14 oct, 2008
- Zoning+Circulation study_sanghyuk_14 oct, 2008
- 10/14/08 Ik Joo Lee
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- hello class and welcome to our new studio
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Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan 5thirtyone.com. Converted by Blogger Buster. Distributed by : Blogger Blog Templates of the Fractal Blog Network
1 comments:
Dan,
The site plan is only a starting point in catching up with the development of your project. But you know pretty clearly that much more needs to be done given where you are at. At this point you should be developing plans of the different floors, sections, 3D representation through models or renderings, etc. This is the only way you can dissect your system and see how it can perform as a building organization—what works and what does not. Right now you are still stuck "outside" of the building in the same way you were with the earlier model studies; the site plan does not help produce much more information about it, and so you are left with essentially the same geometry you had before in the models. Given how far behind the project is, it is disappointing to see only one drawing submitted, rather than an attempt to quickly build up more knowledge about the project by working across plan, section, views, etc., in a way that would force the overall geometrical system to change or become more specific. You will certainly need all of this documentation for the midreview next week, and not producing them now means losing an opportunity to test them (and have our comments) before you present to outside critics.
Given the lack of documentation, it is difficult to comment more on the specifics of the project itself, other than to say it needs more information to judge. It looks like there is a gradient between more public programs (visitors center, cafeteria) and more private areas (office, research), but this needs to be made explicit in developing the plans. Why is one ratio of solid to void (holes) better for one program versus another? If the public-to-private programs are organized along a more or less linear gradient, what happens in the middle area of the plan where the interior spaces become radically thinner and the circulation bottlenecks? You need to fill in information at a finer scale (space planning module, structural module, circulation pathways, etc.) that can give meaning to the shapes your system produces. It is also totally unclear what happens in section since you have not drawn one.
What is a "decompression space?" I am not sure what you mean by these, especially since they refer to two different spaces ("decompression" in the middle, "internal decompression" at the edge of the building) that look totally different in plan. If there is a diagram of the intended relation between different program areas and the role of these decompression zones, this also needs to be produced.
Please post your missing documentation (plans, sections, renderings) immediately as you produce it over the next week. I will be checking the website for these new drawings.
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