gh_floral entities_parametric urbanism 001_nss::.
work in progress…I’ll keep you posted with the design process…
wave porosity_ nss::.
“An elegant building should entail an elegant structure and both together should be able to spatialize considerable organizational complexity without descending into visual disorder. Like in natural systems, all forms are the result of lawfully interacting forces.” – Patrick Schumacher – Engineering Elegance
The first example is more about curvilinear tubes which function as a branching network, the number and the position of a branch in the hierarchy of branches from the outermost twig to the trunk, and the length of each branch, have a logarithmic relation.
The second example is based on the idea of formation process of radiolaria, which belong to the order of marine planktonic protozoa and feature a central protoplasm comprising a chitinous capsule and siliceous spicules that are perforated by pores. The porous mass of the cell encasements of radiolaria deliver an interesting model for differentiated texture in architecture that may feature a variety of specific performance capacities.
Each object is unique and consists of curvilinear surface (first example) or honeycomb (second example) like components. As a field, these components act collectively to express properties of porosity, color, and the interplay of light and shadow. This collection of properties generates a moment in a continuous state of change. It can also absorb thermal energy and release it to the airflow enabled by the porosity, and the double curvature can be utilized for thermal exposure or self-shading.
threshold concept_urban space_ nss::.
Studying new ways of representing a site and searching for shaping concepts suitable for that area, some disclosing relations between architecture and landscape that are normally overlooked begin to emerge: Reciprocity/Materiality/Threshold/Insertion/Infrastructure. All represent alternative ways of looking at the construction and representations of relationships between architecture and landscape.
The 5 operations explored here, each challenge disciplinary percepts that have served to maintain a rigid dichotomy between architecture and landscape architecture. Thus, reciprocity stands against hierarchy, and ordering principle through which architecture has historically subjugated landscape; materiality challenges an aesthetic tradition of disembodied contemplation; threshold precludes a fixed and static conception of boundary; insertion calls into question a figure/ground formulation of the city; and infrastructure critiques an assumption of landscape as originally ground. Each operation functions at several levels within a project, including its practical activity-the “nuts and bolts”-and also becoming its representational content: for instance, both constructing and representing reciprocity.
The five operations are not static, preexisting categories that a project must fit, nor do they prescribe particular criteria that projects need to fulfill. They become legible and acquire substance through the interpretation of projects, each of which builds a small piece of their conceptual framework. Each of the five initiates an alternative way of looking. Each one leads in a different direction , they present opportunities for design outside the scope of conventional discourse.
rev_enton house_nss::.
The investor wanted to build a new house for two families, one for his family (front-family with four members) and one
for those who own the parcel (back-family with two members).
The idea was to create a house which, even if it will serve two families, will have the characteristics of a single house, a plausible idea as long as the specific typology is similar to that of adjacent dwellings. The whole design is based on the idea of transition, gradual consistence, gradual density (front four persons – back two persons), gradual transition urban-domestic interface, gradual transition “gable” roof – flat roof, gradual privacy and from here all the spatial hierarchy that result.
The project was designed as a series of triangle surfaces adjacent to a zone of turbulence, oriented to the two sides of the site. The building mass, although static, reveals openings and alternating high points, that by successive overlaping creates new perspectives and a dynamic character. The surface is divided into triangular surfaces, folded triangular surfaces in some areas, folds that serves as structure.
Shape behavior is similar to that of an object captured in a zone of turbulence, the closer the object is the higher deformation and vice versa. When this occurs, we will have two secondary images that create a main one, front interface – which is more urban and dynamic as an expression, and back interface – which is more domestic and more tectonic as an expression. The closer the urban space, urban activities vs public area, is to house shape, the bigger the surface division factor is. The shape interacts with the environment and adjacent activities.
The same principles were followed in terms of functions, so the function and the shape work together as one body (it is no longer the idea presented by catastrophe theory where a point can be catastrophic macro-and micro non-catastrophic). “Front” house and “Back” house are divided in 3 main privacy areas: public-private, private , private +, recalling the idea of telescopic space. All the functions are displayed and organized around those 3 main privacy areas.
