Dynamic Variables I. Basic Bibliography: Edward R. TUFTE: Envisioning Information. DYNAMIC Variables I

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1 Dynamic Variables I Basic Bibliography: Edward R. TUFTE: Envisioning Information

2 ALL VISUAL PROCEDURE that: REPRESENTS, EXPLAINS, REPLACES, INSTRUCTS and/or INVENTS objects, information, data, concepts, realities, abstractions, relations, intentions and/or phenomenon whose final aim is TO COMMUNICATE them to oneself or to others.

3 Drawing is a way of thinking/definition Drawing is a way of comunication/persuasion Drawing is the main language of architects. As in any language it can be explained in three levels: normative, figurative and creative. During this semester we will deal, especially, with the first two levels. When you draw and when you are learning to draw it is equally relevant WHAT you draw HOW you draw For a complete and comprehensive understanding of drawing, it is necessary to address in parallel both views.

4 When you draw, there are a number of aspects or properties always come into play and are revealed or manifested in any drawing. These properties will be studied during the all course. The use of these parameters is never the same and is closely related to the very act of drawing. In some drawings, they are a direct tool to say what and in other cases they are a simple how to say so. Dimension Scale Hierarchy Color Information Deviation

5 Dimension DYNAMIC Variables I Dimension 1. (often plural) A measurement of the size of something in a particular direction, such as the length, width, height, or diameter 2. (often plural) Scope; size; extent 3. Aspect 4. mathematics. the number of coordinates required to locate a point in space 5. physics The product or the quotient of the fundamental physical quantities (such as mass, length, or time) raised to the appropriate power in a derived physical quantity. The power to which such a fundamental quantity has to be raised in a derived quantity. Dimensión (Del lat. dimensĭo, -ōnis) 1. f. Aspecto o faceta de algo. 2. f. Longitud, área o volumen de una línea, una superficie o un cuerpo, respectivamente. 3. f. Fís. Cada una de las magnitudes de un conjunto que sirven para definir un fenómeno. 4. f. Fís. Expresión de una magnitud mediante el producto de potencias de las magnitudes fundamentales. The purpose of Drawing, belongs to the real world or to the imaginary and has infinite dimensions. The common support on which the drawing is done has two dimensions One of the targets with drawing is to increase the number of dimensions drawn. In other words, we aim to increase the density or amount of information per unit of surface/area. There are many strategies to achieve this. 5. f. Mús. Medida de los compases.

6 increase the amount of information per unit of surface area DYNAMIC Variables I To combine several systems of graphic representation in the same drawing OMA (Rem Koolhaas) Park of la Villette, Paris

7 increase the amount of information per unit of surface area To mix different times o moments in the same drawing Sarah Wigglesworth & Jeremy Till. Increasing disorder in a dining table

8 Diller + Scofidio Slow House, Long Island, 1991 DYNAMIC Variables I increase the amount of information per unit of surface area To combine several points of view in the same drawing

9 increase the amount of information per unit of surface area DYNAMIC Variables I To combine several Conventional elements in the same drawing shape, image, text Esther Navarro Velasco Cosmética del enemigo, 2008

10 scale The support on which the drawing is done demands to set a proportional RELATIONSHIP between the real size or the natural size of the object to draw and the support in which it is drawn. This relationship implies a process of abstraction. The scale can be numerical, graphical and/or visual. The more abstract way of expressing the scale is the numerical. Scale amplifies (enlarges) or synthesizes (diminishes). Architects generally synthesize or simplify the information rather than amplify it. And at the same time, we seek to increase the density of information. Therefore, we must find a balance between the amount of information and the scale of each drawing.

11 Vivienda Móvil, Concurso Misawa Homes, 1970

12 balance between the amount of information and the scale of each drawing TO MIX zooms DYNAMIC Variables I Adrián Beltrán, Gala Calatayud, Mary Pepa Ramos y Belén Gómez HAMA (R) KUM Exercise developed in the School of Architecture of Alicante, Professor Ivan Capdevila, Project s course..

13 Adrián Beltrán, Gala Calatayud, Mary Pepa Ramos y Belén Gómez HAMA (R) KUM Ejercicio desarrollado en la Escuela de Arquitectura de Alicante , estudio del Profesor Iván Capdevila. Reference Seul: nº7 Dongdaemun Market invisible infrestructures creates the market balance between the amount of information and the scale of each drawing micro & macro readings

14 hierarchy Hierarchy means to order, to separate, to differ, to categorize the information within a system, arranged in groups in a graded order. It is a visual gradation, an increasing or decreasing sequence. The easiest development is composed of two steps or phases: yes/no, full/empty, built/not built, section/projection, static/mobile, first plane / back plane, up/down, etc. There are infinite ways to separate information: by the type of drawing, by the conventional elements, thickness, intensity, type and color of lines; hatches, color, scale, overall composition of the drawing, etc.

15 to order, to separate, to differ, to categorize the information within a system, arranged in groups in a graded order. DYNAMIC Variables I Lebbeus Woods High Houses, Sarajevo,

16 DYNAMIC Variables I Saul Steinberg

17 color To paint well is simple this: to put the right color in the right place. Paul Klee Color in drawing can assume different roles or functions: To label (color as noun) To order (color as hierarchy) To measure (color as quantity) To represent or imitate reality (color as representation) To enleven or decorate (color as beauty)

18 Color as quantity Color to measure DYNAMIC Variables I

19 Ana Arana TV Show, 2010 Color como representación Uso del color para imitar la realidad

20 informacion Like any language, Drawing deals with information. The codification, or rather, the drawing s information coding degree, also establishes a base to define possible drawings classifications.

21 El Lissitzsky El constructor, 1925 DYNAMIC Variables I

22 Libeskind Micromegas, 1981 DYNAMIC Variables I

23 deviation Deviation has to do with using graphic language in an unusual or figured way (rhetoric). Through a parallelism with verbal/writing language, drawing frequently relies on the use of Deviations of meaning, Deviations of structure Deviations from standardization Trope: An artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification of a word. Scheme: An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words

24 DYNAMIC Variables I Saul Steinberg

25 DYNAMIC Variables I Madelein Vriesendorp Delirius New York