1.6 site_parti shape

One precisely needs to define “the problem” to engage into the disciplinary discourse. The discourse of architecture traditionally often referred to a series of dialectics such as inside –outside, vertical – horizontal, center – periphery, frontality – rotation, solid – void, point – plane, figure - ground etc..

Just as Jesse Reiser’s Sagaponac house, which has became an extended elaboration of the way in which relations between inside and outside becomer actualized through the action of new architectural paradigms on a modernist type.Sagaponac house, Reiser Umemoto

Museum Cagliari, Zaha Hadid

Do certain techniques accelerate new strategies towards the formation of original organizational structures? Can one push the underlying principle to its limits? What is the right tactic to get to the point when the systemic behavior proliferates variations?

At the basis of the following exploration of geometries towards new organizational structures, the strategies of transformation need to be guided by a series of concepts.

a) Inversion:

b) Continuity:

Taichung Opera house, Toyo Ito

c)Incongruity:

see pdf on server for further descriptions of concepts!

Code:
The design intent and way how the form is generated is to be documented explicitly. All transformations applied are to be explained via serial drawings such that each transformation is defined in time and can be traced back or repeated.
There needs to be an index on the formwork surface in a way to code form, transformation and time.

"The building evades its cartesian definition: not representing an essential form, but a form of 'becoming'" (P.Eisenman, commentary on the Alteka office building Japan, in Architectural Design Profile, n. 102, p.28)

Assignment:

You should localize the inherent characteristics in your design process, and specifically in the initial diagram, considering the Deleuzian notion of “repeating with difference”. In this sense one adheres to certain rules of an existing language or a pattern armature, but trangresses the underpinnings of the project referred to.

literature:
Manuel de Landa: a thousand years of nonlinear history (class reader)
Libeskind/Balmond: Unfolding
Stan Allen: Diagrams Matter

Jesse Reiser: Atlas of novel tectonics

Eisenman Architects: Diagram Diaries
Eisenman Architects: Selected and Current Works
Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques
work of early Eisenman, Hejduk, ..

Tufte: Visual Explanations and Envisioning Information

prelim. review m sep 28
1st review w sep 30 & f oct 2