UMN- College of Design School of Architecture Arch 2281: DFII S2014 Instructors: Andrea Johnson + Adam Jarvi Lecture_04: Fabrication and Information
PROJECT 02: This is (k)not Architecture!
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Think: CUBE
now draw a CUBE
does it look like this? or this? or this?
now compare your CUBE with your neighbor s CUBE
now, what if I asked you to build your CUBE?
Abstraction? The experience of seeing a table or sensing a pain somewhere in one s body is no more or no less concrete than that of having an image or idea of something. Any of these experiences may be precise or imprecise, sharp or vague, but they are all invariably concrete. All mental contents are particular, unique items, even if they are also universals, that is, even if they are concepts standing for a kind of object or idea One can express this also by saying that in order to produce a sensible abstraction, a concept should be generative. It should be possible to develop from the concept a more complete image than that offered by the concept itself. Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking
Translation Inasmuch as architects work at a distance from the material reality of their discipline, they necessarily work through the mediation of systems of representation. Architecture itself is marked by this promiscuous mixture of the real and the abstract: at once a collection of activities characterized by a high degree of abstraction, and at the same time directed toward the production of materials and products that are undeniably real. The techniques of representation are never neutral, and architecture s abstract means of imagining and realizing form leave their traces on the work. Projection -Stan Allen, Practice vs. Project What connects thinking to imagination, imagination to drawing, drawing to building, and buildings to our eyes is projection in one guise or another, or processes that we have chosen to model on projection. All are zones of instability. Iteration -Robin Evans, The Projective Cast I only want to make records that inspire me to want to make more records, that open up a window onto a thousand different ways of putting together a record. -Jeff Tweedy, The Wilco Book
Sol Lewitt, Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes
Marcel Breuer, Wassily Chair, 1925-26 Breuer s Inspiration? His Adler Bicycle
CNC TUBULAR STEEL BENDING MACHINE
Charles and Ray Eames
Were the Eames more talented, or merely less focused on the rules of the game?
Charles and Ray Eames, Graphic Design
Charles and Ray Eames, Bent Plywood Splint
Commercial Applications of bent plywood products
Bent Plywood chairs designed for Herman Miller Molded fiberglass chairs designed for Herman Miller
Residential Design Case Study House #8: Charles and Ray Eames, Los Angeles California, 1949
Exhibition Designers The IBM Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair covered 54,038 square feet (1.2 acres) in Flushing Meadow, N.Y. Designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen Associates
Systems and Information Design Flow Chart and diagram for mass producing post-war residential construction
Charles and Ray Eames, Fiberglass chairs
Film: FIBERGLASS CHAIRS Charles and Ray Eames Films Count the number of materials and methods of representation used during the making of the chairs
Herzog and demeuon, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2005
Site Visit: Spantek Minneapolis, MN
Site Visit: Spantek Minneapolis, MN
Site Visit: Spantek Minneapolis, MN
Site Visit: M.G. McGrath, Minneapolis, MN
SURFACE TENSION Hitoshi Abe: K-Museum, Miyagi, Japan, 2005
Hitoshi Abe: K-Museum, Miyagi, 2005
bubble diagram 01
bubble diagram 02
bubble diagram 03
bubble diagram: space, form and structure derived from bubble intersection
bubble diagram: space, form and structure derived from bubble intersection
space, form and structure reinterpreted through physical model
wall panels dimensioned and organized
dimpled wall panel mock-up
wall panels unfolded
wall panels: assembly and construction
wall panels: assembly and construction interior
Finished photos
completed interiors with diagram comparison
completed interiors
Steven Holl: Simmons Hall, MIT Boston, MA 1998-2002
Steven Holl: Simmons Hall, MIT Initial concept of porosity
Steven Holl: Simmons Hall, MIT Porosity developed through the diagram of the sea sponge.
Development of porosity diagram through articulation of voids
Development of porosity diagram through articulation of voids
Voids rendered
Voids constructed by ruled surface (cast in place)
Voids constructed
Voids occupied: Lounges
Precast frame fabricated Precast frame as kit of parts
Precast frame fabricated installed
Precast frame: encoded rebar
Precast frame: encoded rebar