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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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- Interim Review_Study Models_Sanghyuk
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- 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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1 comments:
Ik Joo,
The plans are certainly more developed than what you showed at the last review. I appreciate that the drawings are more accurate, with the real program areas indicated clearly, and accurate building sections, etc. The organization also seems to have changed into something simpler than before: basically a linear building that has certain "bulges" or fingers along its sides, that accomodate specific program areas (visitors center, public service, etc.). This might work better than what you had before, but you also lose some of the potential to create shortcuts or "loops" between different programs in plan when there is more than one route. A linear circulation (a big spine with fingers on either side) is a very particular kind of organization for work spaces, but you may want to keep other kinds of connections.
It is not so clear from the plans just how wide this linear middle area is. In "Roof Plan" it looks like a series of thinner linear pieces that overlap in plan (the three lines with three different grey colors); but in "1st Plan" and "2nd Plan" the building looks much wider in the middle. You should adjust the line weights and the information that is visible (dotted in, etc.) in 1st Plan and 2nd Plan so it is more clear where the perimeter of each floor is, and how exactly the different floors connect to each other.
I am very interested in the new "cores" you show in the plans and sections: "visitor center core", "auditorium core", etc. Does this mean that you are using certain programs in these cores to create vertical connections that link the different open areas on each floor? This could be a way of combining the vertical structural elements that hold your megastructure above the landscape with particular programs that connect the generic or open areas of the plan. (Look at Zaha Hadid's Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg for a good example of how these vertical programs or "cones" can be used both for structure, circulation, program, etc.) But it is not so clear in the section, where you also have ramped or sloped connections between the floors outside of these cores.
I do think you can go much farther in putting more specific information in your plans, sections, and renderings. Draw the desk areas in your plans, so we know exactly how one circulates through the office areas, or through the laboratory spaces, etc. Draw the structural grid that determines how far your megastructure can cantilever over the landscape. Show us the real thickness of floors, walls, etc. in your renderings, which are now very basic. Draw more detailed sections of specific building areas. You should also start making interior perspectives or views from the site that show us what your building looks like from the point of view of a person, inside or outside.
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