Compound Geometries

Polygon Manipulation | Constructed Morphologies

[using a Model 95 Polaroid Camera and Maya]

Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space

"With out the surface, there is no space"

[Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani]

Blurring the line between surface and space has become evident in contemporary architecture. When designing we are not looking at the exterior as a separate entity from the spaces created inside. The skin helps define the geometries that compose the building. In their article, Versioning: Connubial Reciprocities of Surface and Space, Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani mention the Yokohama Port Terminal as “the only significant building to attempt to absorb programmatic and structural mandates into the envelope.” Incorporating the structure, spaces and skin together, allowed Foreign Office Architects to create a complex and sophisticated building. I think interdisciplinary design can help us achieve the level of complexity in which the exterior and interior of a building merge.

Roller-Coaster Construction by Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Origami Architecture

I've always had a deep admiration for the complexity of shapes one can make through the folding of paper. Foreign Office Architects developed an intricate structure inspired by origami. The work of Masahiro Chatani came to mind when reading Alejandro Zaera-Polo’s article on Roller-Coaster Construction. The translation of a folded paper into folding metal plates to create the structure of the Yokohama Port Terminal is fascinating.

Infinity by Masahiro Chatani [www.thedesignfiles.net]

Matrix

Geometric Manipulation

[Architectural Morphosis]

Week One

"An Architecture of Endless Folds"

[folds, blobs, nets, skins, diagrams]

Water Cube PTW Architects and Arup

[cuts, rifts, faults, negations]

Parc de la Villette Bernard Tschumi

[types, signs, structures, morphologies]

Casa del Fascio Giuseppi Terragni

The description of "an architecture of endless folds" in Skin and Bones [Folded Forms from Leibniz to Lynn] by Anthony Vidler was the most striking to me. Vidler compares the ideas of Deleuze and Leibniz to the characteristics of contemporary architecture. The idea of an architecture of endless folds brings to my mind images of Zaha Hadid's work, not that of the Baroque. As Vidler explains, "architects, always searching for the tangible attribute of an abstract thought; but its not at all clear that folds, in the sense of folded forms, correspond in any way to Deleuze's concept, or even less to Leibniz's model". Its intresting to note the histery and realize that the evolution of these ideas has been able to happen through the innovation in technology.

Opera House Zaha Hadid

Compound Geometries

Surface Manipulation | Constructed Morphologies

[using a Model 95 Polaroid Camera and Rhinoceros]

[Process Photoshop]

Image Plane Tutorial

Great tutorial for adding an image into Maya!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRq1_XZIr7E&list=UUlDOGNECdKi2j3FpD08jcXA&index=21&feature=plcp