DIGIReal Architecture

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DIGIReal Architecture

• New roles for the model

Dr.Ir. Henri Achten February 2004, CVUT,
Prague Molab/Gappa, Faculty of Architecture
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DIGIReal Architecture

• New roles for the model

Dr.Ir. Henri Achten February 2004, CVUT,
Prague Molab/Gappa, Faculty of Architecture
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DIGIReal Architecture

• New roles for the model

Dr.Ir. Henri Achten February 2004, CVUT,
Prague Molab/Gappa, Faculty of Architecture
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DIGIReal Architecture

• New roles for the model

Dr.Ir. Henri Achten February 2004, CVUT,
Prague Molab/Gappa, Faculty of Architecture
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DIGIReal Architecture

• Part I Current trends

• Part II DIGIReal architects

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DIGIReal Architecture

• Current trends in architecture

Part One Current trends
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DIGIReal Architecture

• Current trends in society

Part One Current trends
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DIGIReal Architecture

• Architect between architecture and society

Part One Current trends
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DIGIReal Architecture

• New strategies

Part One Current trends
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DIGIReal Architecture

• New role of the model
• Increased rigour in form-finding process
• Feasibility tests during design process
• Accurate and reliable costing
• Increased degree of prediction
• Use of CAM techniques

Part One Current trends
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DIGIReal Architects
Method
Theory
Model

• Peter Eisenman
• UN Studio
• Greg Lynn
• Frank Gehry

Part Two DIGIReal architects
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DIGIReal Architects
Method
Theory
Model

• Peter Eisenman
• UN Studio
• Greg Lynn
• Frank Gehry

Part Two DIGIReal architects
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Peter Eisenman
Theory

• Techniques
• Shear
• Interference
• Intersection
• Distortion
• Scaling
• Superposition
• Rotation

• Concepts
• Artificialexcavation
• Tracing
• Layering
• Deformation

Some books Peter Eisenman Diagram diaries Luca
Galofaro Digital Eisenman Jean-François
Bédard Cities of artificial excavation
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Peter Eisenman
Theory

• Artificial excavation
• Site as palimpsest.
• Find traces of history.
• Interpret form and meaning.
• Derive new forms and meaning by layering and
  deforming.

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Peter Eisenman
Theory

• Shear
• Skew objects
• Interference
• Study interactions
• Intersection
• Emergent shapes
• Distortion
• Transform shapes
• Scaling
• Rotation

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Peter Eisenman
Theory

• Superposition
• Layer historical analysis.

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Peter Eisenman
Method

• Historical reading of the site
• Superposition
• Deformation strategy
• Diagrammatic image
• Elaboration
• Design

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Peter Eisenman

• Indexical Time
• The trace and superposition form points in time.
• Movement in time from one location.
• Dynamics of the design are forced by changing
  perspectives.

Method
Wexner Centre,83-89
Columbus Conven-tion Centre,89-93
Wexner Centre,83-89
Aronoff Centre,88-96
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Peter Eisenman
Method

• Diagrammatic image
• Additional elements
• Outside architecture
• Related to project
• Informing and deforming

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Peter Eisenman
Method

• Diagrammatic image
• Add to superposition
• Deform composition

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Peter Eisenman
Model

• Diagrammatic model
• Physical scale model
• Computer model

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DIGIReal Architecture
Method
Theory
Model

• Peter Eisenman
• UN Studio
• Greg Lynn
• Frank Gehry

Part Two DIGIReal architects
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UN Studio

• Techniques
• Movement patterns
• Continuous surfaces
• Non-orientable surfaces

• Concepts
• Deep plan
• Public construction
• Diagram
• Hybrid

Theory
Some books Van Berkel Bos Move 1-3 Van Berkel
Bos UN Studio UN Fold
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UN Studio

• Deep Plan
• Connection of movement, urban design, structural
  design, and brief.
• Public construction
• Plan results from forces
• Play with influences. End of hierarchy.
• New task of the architect
• Searching for complexity.
• Between art and airports.

Theory
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UN Studio

• Hybrid
• Manimal
• Continuity
• No edges

Theory
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UN Studio
Method

• Analysis site
• Urban space
• Movement patterns
• Analysis brief/design task
• Activities in time
• Public/private relationships
• Concept for the design task

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UN Studio

• Choose a diagram
• Image with multiple meanings
• Multiply, generate, instrumentalise
• Against typological fixation
• Introduction of concepts outside architecture

Method
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UN Studio

• Diagram is not a blueprint
• Activate via format of diagram
• Use via a mediator

Method
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UN Studio
Model
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DIGIReal Architecture
Method
Theory
Model

• Peter Eisenman
• UN Studio
• Greg Lynn
• Frank Gehry

Part Two DIGIReal architects
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Greg Lynn

• Techniques
• Spline
• NURBS Surface
• Animation
• Metaballs
• Blebs, flowers, strands, lattices

• Concepts
• Force
• Curvature
• Multi-type of performance envelope
• Topology
• Multiplicities

Theory
Some books Greg Lynn Folds, Bodies and
Blobs Greg Lynn Animate Form Greg Lynn Hani
Rashid Architectural Laboratories Greg
Lynn www.glform.com
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Greg Lynn
Theory

• Type and instances
• Ideal type notion
• Multi-type of performance envelope
• Size, position, rotation, direction, speed are
  determined by elements of the design
• Surface results from elements

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Greg Lynn
Theory

• When space is not neutral
• When architectural elements are responsive
• When structure is in a process of becoming
• How to investigate architecture?

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Greg Lynn
Theory

• Study of architecture via computer model
• The computer mediates
• Topology
• Time
• Parameters

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Greg Lynn
Theory

• Topological elements are the result of a
  calculation
• Topological line is a movement through control
  points (spline)
• Topological surface is also movement through
  control points (nurbs surface)

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Greg Lynn
Theory
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Greg Lynn
Theory

• Spline and NURBS surface denote influence of
  vectors
• Multiplicities
• Curvature of line or surface reflects conditions
• Relations can be studied with animation

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Greg Lynn
Method

• Analyse brief for major spaces.
• Decide on computational structure.
• Relate structure to the site.
• Determine forces on structure.

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Greg Lynn
Method

• Keyframe major conditions on structure.
• Animate and study interactions.
• Freeze and develop one or more instances of the
  animation.

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Greg Lynn

• Bleb A volume that appears from a
  self-intersecting surface

Model
bleb
NURBS-surface
sections
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Greg Lynn

• Flower The transformation of a tube to a plane
  by increased flattening of section.

Model
sections
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Greg Lynn

• Shred Creating openings by means of duplicate
  control curves.

Model
Duplicatecontrol lines
Surface per twocontrol lines
Continued surface of othercontrol lines
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Greg Lynn

• Strand Creating spaces as bundles of lines.

Model
Profiles
Path curves
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Greg Lynn

• Lattice Space grid structure

Model
Surface
Surface aftercreation oflattice
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Greg Lynn
Model

• Rapid prototyping and CNC milling techniques.

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DIGIReal Architecture
Method
Theory
Model

• Peter Eisenman
• UN Studio
• Greg Lynn
• Frank Gehry

Part Two DIGIReal architects
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Frank Gehry

• Techniques
• Model
• Incremental search
• Physical to digital model
• Verification model

• Concepts
• Continuous form
• Surface
• Complexity
• Contradiction

Theory
Some books Walker Art CenterThe
Architectureof Frank Gehry Mildred
FriedmanGehry Talks Coosje van
BruggenGuggenheim Museum Bilbao Irena
FialovaDancing Building
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Frank Gehry
Theory
Loyola Law School, LA1981-1984
Architects house,Santa Monica 1977-1978
Benson house, Calabasas,1981-1984
DeMenill house, New York1978 (not completed)
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Frank Gehry
Theory
Vitra Furniture Museum, Weil am Rhein,1987-1989
Lewis residence, 1985-1995Lyndhurst, (not
completed)
Nationale Nederlanden building, Prague,1992-1996
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Frank Gehry
Theory
Walt Disney Concert Hall,LA, 1987-2003
Experience Music Project, Seattle, 1995-2000
Neue Zollhof, Dusseldorf, 1994-1999
Guggenheim museum, Bilbao1991-1997
www.greatbuildings.com
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Frank Gehry
Method

• 1989
• 20 Employees
• 2 Computers (word processing and accounting)
• Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles project
  (1987 - )

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Frank Gehry
Method
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Frank Gehry
Method

• James Glymph joins office
• The Barcelona fish
• Very fast realisation
• CATIA (Computer Aided Three-Dimensional
  Interactive Application), Dassault Systèmes

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Frank Gehry

• Dancing house, Prague
• First building with CATIA
• Gehry/ Milunic

Method
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Frank Gehry

• Sketches
• Scale models
• CAD models
• Verification models
• Finalised design

Method
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Frank Gehry
Method
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Frank Gehry
Gehry office workshop
Start of the design process
Method
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Frank Gehry
Model
Building studies of Nationale Nederlanden
Building, Prague
Studies of Ginger part of Nationale Nederlanden
Building, Prague
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DZ Bank, Berlin
Frank Gehry
Nationale Nederlanden building, Prague
Model
Experience Music Project
Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA
Telluride residence
Physical model to digital model, Guggenheim
Museum, Bilbao
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Frank Gehry

• Verification models to check
• Design
• Database
• For
• Drawings
• CAM

Model
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Frank Gehry
Model
Realised building
Verification model
Verification model
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DIGIReal Architecture
Method
Theory
Model

• Peter Eisenman
• UN Studio
• Greg Lynn
• Frank Gehry

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Workshop 2004

• Design of a conference centre.
• Work method of one of the architects
• Peter Eisenman, UN Studio, Greg Lynn, Frank Gehry
• Explore and study role of the model.
• Final result is design.

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Workshop 2004

• Program
• Monday Lecture, start of workshop
• Tuesday Consultation (morning)
• Wednesday Consultation, short presentation of
  project (1330h)
• Thursday Consultation (morning, afternoon)
• Friday Final presentation (1000h)

• E-shop
• 1700
• 1100
• 1100,1630
• 1100
• 1630

• All information on
• http//www.e-architekt.cz/workshop04