Animate Form by: Greg Lynn
(1) Unfolding of an internal system
(2) Infolding of contextual information fields
"The context of design becomes an active abstract space that directs from within a current of forces that can be stored as information in the shape of the form."
Such forces may include environmental conditions (wind and sun), contextual phenomena (pedestrian and vehicular movement), urban vistas, configuration, patterns and intensities of use... etc...
"... above all, a space for mobility, a container in which movement was prefigured."Ignasi de Sola Morales
ARCHITECTURE OF MOTION, not architecture of movement. Preconditions of motiont to trigger the formal. formal is prioritized over space.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Quick Thoughts 2
These forces means to act on the traveler but with complete disregard, the place leaves no impact on the traveler. And because they have no where else to go, these forces, building up, gathering tension with no means to subside, causes strain on the bridge. The bridge is always in tension, as it strings together two land masses.
Quick Thoughts.
So once I have these lines drawn on a model, i am looking at the natural and the artificial lines, what they mean. I think of internal and external forces, acting upon one another, they have no where to go, no means of transitioning. so they diminish. Mode of travel, lets us forget them. The architecture must counter the lost of place, by understanding these forces and concentrating them into a point of knowing. This is where things pivot, centers, align. This is where the traveling remembers the land he travels on.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
One Place After Another by: Miwon Kwon
One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity
by: Miwon Kwon
To be "specific" to such a site, in turn, is to decode and/or recode the institutional conventions so as to expose their hidden operations- to reveal the ways in which institutions mold art's meaning to modulate its cultural and economic value; to undercut the fallacy of art's and its institutions' autonomy by making apparent their relationship to the broader socioeconomic and political procecsses of the day. Again, in Buren's somewhat militant words from 1970:
Art, whatever else it may be, is exclusively political. What is called for is the analysis of formal and cultural limits (and not one or the other) within which art exists and struggles. These limits are many and of different intensities. Although the prevailing ideology and the associated artists try in every way to camouflage them, and although it is too early- the conditions are not met- to blow them up, the time has come to unviel them.
pg14
by: Miwon Kwon
To be "specific" to such a site, in turn, is to decode and/or recode the institutional conventions so as to expose their hidden operations- to reveal the ways in which institutions mold art's meaning to modulate its cultural and economic value; to undercut the fallacy of art's and its institutions' autonomy by making apparent their relationship to the broader socioeconomic and political procecsses of the day. Again, in Buren's somewhat militant words from 1970:
Art, whatever else it may be, is exclusively political. What is called for is the analysis of formal and cultural limits (and not one or the other) within which art exists and struggles. These limits are many and of different intensities. Although the prevailing ideology and the associated artists try in every way to camouflage them, and although it is too early- the conditions are not met- to blow them up, the time has come to unviel them.
pg14
The Mutuality of Movement by: Doreen Massey
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007
Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen
The Mutuality of Movement
by: Doreen Massey
"What is interesting is the desire that this ambition evinces, and also the lack of acknowledgment of the importance of the journey itself, and not just the arrival." p75
"On the other hand, the notion that distance (and thus the journey) is only unwelcome friction displays a desire to transcend our earthboundness, to dematerialize into that virtual world of instantaneous communication that allows us to escape the friction of intervening encounters- precisely that element of surprise, the event of unexpected interaction, and thus the need to negotiate, that is inherent to space." p75
Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen
The Mutuality of Movement
by: Doreen Massey
"What is interesting is the desire that this ambition evinces, and also the lack of acknowledgment of the importance of the journey itself, and not just the arrival." p75
"On the other hand, the notion that distance (and thus the journey) is only unwelcome friction displays a desire to transcend our earthboundness, to dematerialize into that virtual world of instantaneous communication that allows us to escape the friction of intervening encounters- precisely that element of surprise, the event of unexpected interaction, and thus the need to negotiate, that is inherent to space." p75
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