2009.06.13
2009.06.12
2009.06.08
Paragothic Interiorities
0RN8 - Paragothic Interiorities
0RN8 is interested in pursuing the creation of novel interiorities through the articulated elaboration of experimental and existing structural systems. The unfolding and differentiation of each tectonic system that is under analysis occurs within the defining parameters of the system’s own inherent logic. The team’s design research work commenced with a variety of parametric design studies, where the issues of frame and fabric were investigated, along with the idea of generating multilayered, tectonic systems, where each of the layers would be generated in an autopoietic manner. After experimenting with generic parametric systems, the filigree interiors of the gothic tectonic systems were chosen, as historical precedents that are the most efficient, in terms of qualitative differentiation, piecemeal construction and part-to-whole relationship intensities. Using the gothic vault bay tectonic system as a starting point, an analysis of rib curvatures and variable thicknesses and depths takes place, in an attempt to parametrize the entire vault bay and flying buttress structural system. This parametrization will eventually lead to the creation of a novel parametric, proto-design system, which will give birth to a variety of inherently adaptive interiorities.
2009.05.28
2009.05.07
re-interpreting gothic _ toward interiority
team ORN8: Cruz_Kaprinis_Popik_Tsironi We look at the Gothic architecture as architecture
of controlled aesthetics. The clustered columns support ribs springing in
different directions that enable the insertion of large windows. For example, in an ogee arch, the construction begins
with an equilateral triangle, all sides are equal; to half the length of the
baseline and from point construct a semicircular arch. We aim to incorporate fractal and bifurcating
system; fractal-substructure and bifurcation-porosity. Applying gothic rules,
single columns, column splits at the bottom, column splits and merges again,
columns splits at the top and merges again with another column are introduced
in order to create flexible and porous structural systems. Fractal System The structural column variables : X F constants : + − start
: X angle
: 30° F means "draw forward", - means
"turn left 30°", and + means "turn right 30°". The gothic structure is based on relationship of
the ribs. We look at the variation in a vault design that almost acquires textile
properties. Transverse arches, split ridge ribs, interlacing of interlinked
vaults, triple ridge ribs, diagonal ribs, fan ribs with rounded patterns, the
interlacing, the networking of curved lines form a series of complex
configurations that has a distinction between primary and secondary structure. The aim Is to develop a structural differential
relationship, building up a multi-layered complexity with a lawful
differentiation within each system.
We looked at the variability of a rib vault that is
directly connected to an emergent effect of configuration. The Gothic vault is
a surface that starts with a zero thickness and build up of curves that are
splitting in series of the lines, i.e. the columns. A surface is generated of a series of splitting
lines that seamlessly create continuity across the structure. The structural
basis of interlaced curves develops geometrical articulation of massing into an
exploration of structural matters.
2009.04.28
STAIR FETISH
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2009.04.26
DEFINING CONSTRUCTIVISM -------- RODCHENKO ---- POPOVA
Long loved Russian Constructivism period, I visited an exhibition "Defining Constructivism - Rodchenko and Popova" at Tate Modern.
"Russia has given birth to its own art and its name is non-objectivity" Rodchenko [1918]
"The line has revolutionized our view of pictorial surface by changing an idea that form is no more than a patch of color" Rodchenko [1921]
"I don't think that non-objective form is a final form; it is a revolutionary condition of form" Popova [1921]
"The line becomes an independent graphic element as well as a border of form or its continuation of space" Popova [1923]
2009.04.20
Information is the currency of life_METAXY
metaxy is an architectural practice at the cutting edge of the creation and implementation of new concepts for architecture and design based on the genetic paradigm. The studio deploys computation as a generative engine to arrive at the construction of possible worlds of architecture that are imaginative, surreal and enigmatic. As such, architecture is conceived as ageneric construct situated within the emerging concept of the global brain:sublimation of collective intelligence through architectural form.
