Emergent Density

Emergent Density Final Review

2007-07-22T23:18:00.000+02:00

Final review of the Emergent Density module. Friday 20th of July 2007:
The last weeks of work culminated in the final review. The board of critics included Oliver Bertram, head of the company Different Futures and Assistant at Greg Lynns studio of the Angewandte and Rainer Zettl, Assistant at W.D. Prix studio and main coordinator of Urban Strategies. The allover quality of the body of work was appreciated by the board, and some good advises were given about possible further proceedings with the learnt design strategies. It was interesting to see that despite the general design strategy the final results formed a variety of possible solutions. Some projects approched the problem by creating an allover connected architectural entity. Other approaches included the dissolving of mass in fibrous entities, and the creation of cellular aggregations.

GroupPresentation

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Chfwu79 Pres

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Miha Volgemut pres

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TOPOLOGY

One continuous surface

EXTENSIVE vs. INTENSIVE

Building is not measurable, it is configurated with changeable parameters.

STRATIFICATION

Interdependent layering of floors - usable outside area of floors.

EMERGING POPULATION

MANIPULATION MAP

TOPMOD SCREENSHOT

PROJECT

Deformation of topology

Creating architectural condition

Urban body...interiorization of streets...redefining the communication corridors

Researching urban anatomy...area of the site: 700x450m

Section 1 - urban scale

Section 2 - architectural scale

Cityscape

3D print

ReinhardPres

2007-07-20T15:46:00.001+02:00

Gradient

Stratification

Topology

AbstractMachines

Analysis

Analysis

Strategie for the final result

Final result

Model

Aspern area

YuePres

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paluePres

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Gradient:

Eifel Tower, Paris

Topology:

WOS 8 is a Heat Transfer Station, Leidsche Rijn, Netherlands 1998

Transition:

Holocaust Memorial at Berlin, Peter Eisenman

Abstract Machines:

Extensive Maps:

wire manipulations
creating two models
1. model: deformation of the plane surface into a tube
2. model: changing the genus of the surface through additional openings

Intensive Maps
Focus on effects:

Machinic Translations:

Creating three affiliated cells:

Different Viewpoints of the three cells:

Agglomeration of the three affiliated cells

WebThomyPres

2007-07-20T15:22:00.000+02:00

Gradient

Stratification

Transition

AbstractMachines

ExtensiveMap

IntensiveMap

focus on stratification effects

section analysis

Model1

Model2

Model3

Model4

PinUpAbstractMachines1

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PinUpAbstractMachines2

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PinUpabstractMachines3

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Miha Volgemut, 3D Print1

2007-07-19T08:34:00.000+02:00

Here you can see some images of Miha´s Model,
also fresh out of the printer and dedusted. You can compare it to the project here.

Something important for those who have to pic up their model at the 3D Fabrication Lab of the Angewandte. You should get a Spray can of clear acrylic paint and cover your models with a coat of paint. This increases the stability of the model. You will have to be careful with this models anyways, but it helps.

ZülfiyeIntensive Map

2007-07-19T07:34:00.000+02:00

"Spiral Reality" (2)

The parts with transition. Like paravane but the thing continue in wholeness.
From inside to outside to the other dynamic in terms of changes but in the same time could be able to read as history and the ability to have description in the whole system.
The vertical rise and horizontal movement. From one to the other parts connections and same points..

Regarding to concept and its elements

Basic issues & instruments:
•Dynamism
•Harmony-Topographic wholeness
•Differency but relationship / more than communicaiton !
•Spiral Shape: it looks the same if you observe the movement but always different in fact.

You see the spiral movement you think you are in the same spiral movement-yes it is- but not in the same spiral ( the same point of the spiral) the movement is the same but the material is not and also behavioral changes form the reality..

The points are unique and that are not developing in linear way but spiral and more connected to each other .

Yesterday ( history) today and tomorrow are connected but always different means in different point in the spiral reality but they are communicating to each other instead of creating the reality again, connecting this to the existing one and creating together the “future one “…

This saves energy!

Things could seem as “same” but this is actually “similarity” and you see the differency if you focus on. Differency not so much visible to express themselves so much but a little bit in order to describe and put them in the correct order .That is the point .

If you make some of them much more visible than the others then the balance will change ..!

MIhaUrban body II

2007-07-17T23:06:00.000+02:00

MihaUrban body

2007-07-17T10:04:00.000+02:00

I am now researching urban conditions in the model of dimensions 700 x 450m. It is revealing itself as an urban body... a house and a city at one time. The communication corridors are organic - continuous, that means there's no distinction between street, hallway, stairs, elevator, subway... they are all interiorised and intertwined with each other, there are electric cars and transportation. The anatomy of the object is similar to the living body anatomy with veins, organs and functions. So this urban body is a building block, neighborhood and a city center at one time. Beside highly internal connectivity it is also connected to outside world with subway and car traffic under the ground. Quality of living and working in such a "city" is just a state of evolutionary adaptation of humans to environmental conditions. Our environment is rapidly changing, the direct sun is more and more harmful and the daylight is disturbing factor in the digital environment, also outside air is polluted, especially on the streets with traffic smog and noise. And for experiencing the outside qualities there is still a lot of outside space in the holes of the body, from small ones to large public squares, which are a matter of choice and not the necessity.
I am also wandering about the consciousness of the body. Consciousness of the city is the place of terrible mistake, where something is going terribly wrong. Consciousness is dynamic, but can we capture it in the moment with identifiable space/object? Maybe just half real and half symbolic - object out of context, ruining the space configuration, disturbing the balance... So, I placed the cultural program in the charismatic corner of the body, where something is not right, mutation of topology is creating new condition, new exit.

P.S. I am trying to make 3d model more precise with some urban and architectural elements, but it's hardly possible with mesh mode. How can I transform mash object into surface?

Reinhard Hacker 3D print 1

2007-07-15T20:43:00.000+02:00

Here are a couple of images fresh out of the 3D manufacturing Lab of the Angewandte. The model is "still warm" so to speak. This is the 1:500 section model of Reinhard Hackers project. Which shows us right away Do´s and Dont´s of 3D printing..

And this it what happens if you make your model pieces too skinny, they just fall apart when you try to get the out of the dust of the 3D printer:

chfwu79MachinicTranslation1

2007-07-14T00:00:00.000+02:00

_ intensive vs extensive
Genotype

I try to use two different manipulations to transform genotype into phenotype.

I. Based on the temporal condition (the same viewpoint but at different time)

(Phenotype is the interaction between genotype and the environment)

II. Based on the spatial condition (some quality of space was creared)

PS. I am not sure whether "these bones" could be printed. Any suggestion ?

WebthomyMachinicTranslation1

2007-07-13T19:33:00.000+02:00

hi, please note...my images are already only screen prints...and i will do some sections for my analysis...

SaM: your goal was to create a kind of 'gradient of openings' through manipulation of the wire by cutting out openings of different sizes- in addition to the existing hexagonal micro openings of the wire itself. Then you applied the plaster in layers (please add a description of the individual layer's viscosity, e.g. viscosity was nearly the same or I started with layers of low viscosity....; add an approximate number of layers, direction of application)

SaM: Your analysis of the stratification should also cover the various layers that created this expected and unexpected results (think about varying line weight for each plaster application)
then you write about the exciting effects that were created through the aggregation of the plaster around the mid-size? openings.(here you should point out which openings in the wire created this effect)
To demonstrate and examine the cause and effects of this process you are focusing from now on, and that will form the basis for the development of your project, you need a SECTIONAL analysis of the plaster model too.

SaM: Good start,
just two comments:
In your physical model several layers of - we guess - high viscous plaster created this voluptious areas and spaces we've been talking about at the last table crit. (the sectional analysis of your plaster model will help you create more intricate connections)
Within your digital model you tried - too fast - to come to an result that can be interpreted as an architectural or urbanistic situation - the layering effect that created this overhanging effects is missing.
You are right by writing that this structure is open ended, but by repeating the method you apply for your digital model endlessly you might reach a dead end.
1. Think how the method you applied horizontally might develop gradually into a vertical system.
and/or
2. add elements of disturbance or disruption to your system - we want to develop methodologies and design strategies that create behavioural elements, elements that have the capacity to create something unexpected. For example: This moments of disruption or distortion could start at a micro scale taking over or dying back/off as the method is deployed into verticality etc.etc...

ZulfiyeMachinicTranslation1

2007-07-13T14:13:00.000+02:00

Top Mod Modelling

ReinhardMachinicTranslation1

2007-07-13T09:06:00.001+02:00

Final Review 20th of July...

2007-07-12T20:32:00.000+02:00

Dear Students:
We have confirmation for our final Review: It will take place Friday the 20th of July.
Guests will include Wolf. D. Prix, Reiner Zettl and Oliver Bertram.
It will be an evening session from 6pm to 7.30pm. So everyone of you will have aprox. 15 min. of time from presenting. So rehearse your presentations, and densify them to the max! Press the juice out of it!

Furthermore there will be the chance to 3D print on this weekend at the Angewandte, so get in contact with me if you want to make use of the chance, which I highly recommend.

One more thing: Post your results in the blog, we haven´t seen much lately!

PalueMachinicTranslation3Comment

2007-07-12T12:23:00.000+02:00

Thank you Palue for keeping us informed

We'd like you to keep focused on the second step of your work - the green series

As we still think that the maps are an important step in the development of your projects here we posted a few suggestions:
you started creating a tubular and a planar physical model

then you've been analyzing your planar model focusing on the stratification effects depicted on this image

overlapping your tubular and planar physical model created the basis for your project

you started analyzing the planar model - in the following images we provide you with a possible analysis of the tubular model, which should help you (and all others on the blog) to overcome the massing problem and to create the swellings we are talking about constantly ;)

the next images focus on the good start of the 3D translation into the digital model

the model already translates the ideas of massing and stratification effects starting in the center, but also how this swellings would behave on the additional handles (red rectangle)

here the representation of the stratification process is depicted most successfully

gravitational effects are created - also on the left were the boundary condition starts to dissolve by forcing it -carefully - from a planar condition into 3D

PalueMachinicTranslation3

2007-07-12T12:13:00.001+02:00

My latest model! Sorry for the bad renderings . . . I realized a thikness surface and concerning the design I tried to emerge space, density and connected with the appearence of density gradient behaviour. Further I tried to reach a certain agglomeratio of mass at the edges (as we can obeserve it in the plastermodels) of the model - but this effect is unfortunately more visible in the TopMod model! I will see what I can do during the day to get a more mass like structure - means adding some more structural elements in TopMod . . .

Rind Modeling (Thickness)

2007-07-11T18:28:00.000+02:00

Hello!

One further question - is rind modeling necessary to print our models? As we experienced while launching rind modeling "negative effects" emerge.

Concerning printing I will start off tomorrow !

Speed Pinup, Thursday July 5th.

2007-07-06T23:51:00.000+02:00