design + affect: Presentation Working Outline

11.27.2007

Presentation Working Outline

Theory

Thesis Statement

Definitions

Analytical vs. Systematic

_Isolated vs. Integrated
_Hyrdogen + Chlorine- Hydrochloric Acid- Acid Effect

Architecture

Towards a New Architecture _ Corbusier -
_Greek Temple- Automobile- Maison Domino

Refabricating Architecture _ KTA
_House Frame- Boeing Assembly- KTA Loblolly House

Systems Integration_
_Loblolly House- Coral- Integrated Network Diagram

Integrated Systems Strategies
_Coral- arch + site integration- Modular system which integrates and creates site
_Motorcycle- user+arch integration- Frame facilitates systems which integrate with user to create experience
_Scuba- user + space integration- Body is framework for integrated spatial experience

Context

Water is transforming the edge of our land based reality and architecture is still isolated, not prepared to integrate.
_images_ dhaka, new orleans, united kingdom

NYC_
Sea Level Rise + Hurricanes forcing themselves on city and culture.

Bedrock allows buildings to stand strong but an architectural system must mediate the water + facilitate function once again.

Affect

“Architecture within this context is not a singular entity nor is it permanent, but can become a cooperative and adaptable part of the systematic world.”

Diagram of systems integration (beginning, growth, full integration)

Systems' Effect
Image: Boat in times square
Image: Scuba diving amongst skyscrapers

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Thesis Statement: Systems Integration

Architecture in its current state is isolated because it does not recognize itself as an adaptive system within a larger constantly evolving network. Subtractive, analytical processes serve to isolate the subject from the very factors which define them, while systemic processes derive order from cooperative interaction with dynamic systems.

Systemic integration is a way of understanding and evolving the connections between systems which have previously been understood as singular elements. This thesis specifically explores the ocean as an environmental network and a mechanism to be experienced.

The existing structures of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico provide a framework to which an architectural system can be applied to initiate this investigation. The oil platform as it exists currently is exclusively industrial and does not relate to the oceanic context but draws only from the oil reserves beneath the sea floor. To the oil company; when the reserves are dry, so ends the life of the platform. Thinking about this structural system as a part of a network allows performative and experiential systems to be designed for and integrated into the existing network.

This thesis explores how architecture can be designed through a process of compositing informational systems, which then informs the design network, which becomes the architecture. The architecture as a realized project and a process becomes an integrative tool.

Quotes

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

_Sir Isaac Newton, from Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)

A band pointing towards the ocean epitomizing what human endeavor can accomplish at one scale with geometric clarity but modest deliberation, to give the scaleless sweep of the ocean.

_Louis I. Kahn

All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.

_John F. Kennedy, Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962

Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is a part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

_Paul Feyerabend

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11.27.2007

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