Compound Geometries

These two images illustrate compound geometries created using the inside of a wheel rim. I took the inner portion where the bolts usually are and inverted or mirrored them back to back. Then repeated that volume to create a strip or "bar" form.

Inchoate: An Experiment in Architectural Education

Architecture has been dominated by three concepts: visual appearance (stylistic, typological, spatial), authorship (a creator architect, a personal signature), and primacy of the object (the existence of the object in pristine condition). Marc Angelil seeks to take the concept of inchoate and utilize that as a method of designing.

Angelil suggest that modern method of teaching starts at an origin and moves towards a higher point in a very linear, dictated fashion. He feels that this method of learning creates disciplinary boundaries limits the full extent of knowledge people can have. He proposes an idea whereby teaching occurs from outside the discipline at study and knowledge moves inwards towards the circle, instead of linearly outward. This allows for teaching and learning to "constitute acts of trangression, interrogation from both within and without". The end result of this method being that architects are learning and working out of their comfort zone in an area where there is no "secure basis in terms of form and content". Allowing them the opportunity to experiment and develop ideas not possible in a linear learning pattern.

Ali Rahim "Potential Performative Effects"

Ali Rahim discusses how contemporary design techniques create for new effects that result in further cultural transformation that previous techniques could not accomplish. This is done through a feedback loop that are temporal process-driven methods that produce new effects in cultural, political and social production. Rahim emphasizes that techniques have always contributed to human production but it has been refined and accelerated after the industrial revolution.

Rahim states that the path of evolution that a building, company, or career produces a lineage which can be political, social, commercial, scientific etc. These lineages produce an effect in our culture and then are transmitted to other cultures as memes. Memes can either be hereditary when details and forms are copied, variation in which behavior is copied with errors, or selection in which only some behaviors are copied.

I think the analogy of the computer serves as a good example of technology being immersed in its cultural context and having qualitative effects. The computer was created as a result of contribution from scholars, philosophers, mathematicians etc. and its creation was stimulated over time by a shared vision. Everyone shared different economic, commercial, political and scientific pressure and eventually a new technology emerged as the computer. The computer as an object in a “vacuum” would merely be “linear and casual” with no formal expression. When viewed in its cultural context, we realize the technology can produce effects that are larger that originally anticipated. The internet was created for military purposes, but now is the largest holder of data anywhere in the world. The analogy serves to illustrate how to fully maximize potential provided by contemporary techniques

Assignment 2_The Matrix _Wheel Spokes

Anthony Vidler- Skin and Bones

Vidler has introduced the idea of folds as more than just bending planes to create spaces and objects. He discusses folding through theorists and concepts with the first one being a house designed by Gilles Deleuze called "Le maison baroque". The house contains a lower portion and an upper portion in which there are 5 openings that allow for "emanations" from below. The upper portion represents the head and the lower portion represents the body. The 5 openings represent the senses and the concept illustrates how the head and body are connected through the senses. The curtain is what receives the imagery which is alluded to as a "Camera".

These two images are surface renderings of a Nissan GT-R. The top image is a view of the interior volume placed against the precedent images. The bottom image is an exterior surface rendering that seeks to display the massing of the car. I included wireframe to place an emphasis on how the contours curve and widen when the original rectangular plane is twisted into a different direction