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Intention Midterm presentation
I'm planning to give my midterm presentation for next monday the following contents: - Hypothesis - research questions - testing
- Input & output of research
- Architectural input
- Radiolarian input
- G.C. sketch
- Plan for the next weeks
After I spoke to Michela, Andrew/Elisa and Andre last thursday, I concluded after taking a little time to process their input, to keep the architectural image more in mind while proceding my research. I don't want to focus only on the tesselation of surfaces anymore, without having an architectural image of the output. But more on a complete spatial structure of a pavilion. I will keep in mind the possibilities of tesselating the surfaces and the knowledge I gathered on this specific subject. And apply them later on.
Hi Maria,
ReplyDeletePresentation must be up to 5 minutes – therefore addressing it very precisely is important. Main focus should be your recent and upcoming work – therefore just state your research proposal in one slide.
Here below a summary of recent e-mail discussion we had:
I totally agree on the need of architectural meaning/quality. And I totally agree on the fact that optimizing a certain tessellation, extracted out of a radiolarian or other, does not lead to architecture or architectural quality automatically. I do not think optimizing tessellation is what you are doing – which is in my view more than that.
Being fascinated by a natural shape can be, in my view, a valid architectural inspiration which has to do with aesthetic/perception/emotions. I would not advice following this fascination if purely formal. But you are trying to work with/understand the rules which are behind the beauty of these shapes – related their structural geometry – witch make them able of being strong and light at the same time. It seems to me you want to/are investigating the structural meaning behind the beauty of these shapes - starting from their micro-scale, to investigate the light geometry of these shapes in a building scale. Which is in my view is already an architectural-quality related task (lightness of structures can be an architectural quality). The choice of glass seems to me coherent with the idea of lightness.
Working through geometry/materialization of light structural shape, transforming it from a micro to a large scale (on glass) - by designing a pavilion as result of your process.
Coming therefore to the design of the pavilion you are going to do, I believe that better defining this case study would help your research. Having a context - or an idea of the pavilion you would like to work on - or deciding the kind of shape you are working with – or other similar choices/borderlines that define the starting points of your design, might help.
To summarize, you would have in this case:
1) an architectural case study which is your pavilion - with starting context or chosen shapes or whatever borderline you are interested in
2) an architectural concept/quality - which is lightness (if I right understood your interest in radiolarians – if I am wrong, just tell it)
3) a geometrical/structural investigation which links the two – using radiolarians rules to develop your architectural concept in the pavilion you are designing.
Yes, I agree that main structure should be your starting point. I agree problem should be kept simple: if using tessellation for structural aims leads to too high complexity, yes, using it for addressing cladding might be an idea – even better if geometry still embed structural/constructional meaning (not purely formal).
Hoping it helps - if not, let me know.
Michela
PS: Send me your GC model if needed.