fix our energy addiction

Just like the recent competition of Metropolis indicates, the current studio topic proves to be wit the Zeitgeist:
Rising energy costs present new design problems.

Redesign the broken models of the 20th century. Challenge our patterns of living and working in a fuel-hungry world…come up with solutions that connect us, make us more efficient, more humane.

Ask yourself…
How would I bring work closer to home?
Can a product help eliminate long commutes?
What can I do to revitalize old ideas such as living above the store?
What kind of interiors or furnishings does a telecommuter really need?
Or follow your own dreams…what calls out for a major redesign?

Focus on one area that needs fixing—products, interiors, buildings and landscape, communication systems, or anything else you can imagine—and develop your idea fully.

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metropolitan dreams and visions

SCALE: Consider the visionary statements from the architectural field in the period of the 1960-1970's that were able to condense a critical leap forward, and featuring such firms as Archigram, Archizoom, Superstudio, Friedman, Eckhard Schulze Fielitz etc..
It seems being paralleled by the current similar approach between art and architecture. There is also an exhibition currently in Berlin on the topic, "Megastructure reloaded" until 2. November
images by NOX (NYC) and schulze Fielitz on his design for the canal building to England.

see following links
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megastructure reloaded

fluid continuity

“Architecture has to follow the diversity of society, and has to reflect that a simple square or cube can’t contain that diversity.”
Toyo Ito













Toyo Ito
Taichung Metropolitan Opera House
Taichung City, Taiwan

reading list

for the presentation on your reading, there are no images necessary, unless you choose to do underline some concepts with it.
You should extract the relevant ideas and concepts which pertain to our studio topic on natural systems as the model for generative processes and formulate those in three pages to be presented to the class.

images Venice Bienal, surface explorations with multiple orientations and surface continuity> this is one idea for the generation of a deep surface.

minimal surfaces exploration

http://www.b-l-u-s-h.com

This group of students undertook a similar approach, where a single pattern component is based on a principle of surface transformation.














In a second stage it is multiplied and varied within the larger surface assembly, where particular edge conditions show a street wall solution or eruptions become towers. The first two images show the pattern layout by blush and the surface buildout with surface decreases and increases in areas of densification.


The second set shows the sectional development of the surface for the base buildout and the structural doubling of the surface in certain areas.