http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/10/bmw-gina-light-visionary-model-revealed/
6.11.2008
5.20.2008
4.10.2008
3/4 Jury
For final jury I need to be more rigorous about the architectural representation of the project. I think the idea of breaking up the vertical presentation format with analytiques or moments of deeper exploration was a good suggestion to bring real intensity to the somewhat fantastical subject matter.
The framework was not presented at all which integrates the architecture with the structure. This hindered the understanding of the project as a whole. the sectional model for final jury must include the framework and it will be a section of the large tower 1/8th which expresses a part of the overall tower model 1/30th. Continuity of the drawings is starting to come together and the architectural methods will reinforce the format.
I need to create working drawings for the physical spaces at human scale, many of these exist as sketches but are not developed to include architectural features such as light quality, sense of human relation and density and common architectural mechanisms like section marks.
This type of analysis will lead to a better understanding of the true nature of social interaction in the spaces and their relationships to one another, keeping in mind fluidity, displacement and also the external environment as a part of the experience of the architecture. So much of the functional aspects create an experiential side effect that I would like the architecture to suppliment the place, not overwhelm it. The experience of systems integration is the one of riding the motorcycle, or scuba diving so that you're perception of the environment (the network) is completely altered by the device. In this case the architecture, which is the device, facilitates this experience of the existing network, it does not artificially create it.
specific details:
connection betweeen modules
connection to structure
artiifical and natural lighting systems
notate life support systems accomodation
The framework was not presented at all which integrates the architecture with the structure. This hindered the understanding of the project as a whole. the sectional model for final jury must include the framework and it will be a section of the large tower 1/8th which expresses a part of the overall tower model 1/30th. Continuity of the drawings is starting to come together and the architectural methods will reinforce the format.
I need to create working drawings for the physical spaces at human scale, many of these exist as sketches but are not developed to include architectural features such as light quality, sense of human relation and density and common architectural mechanisms like section marks.
This type of analysis will lead to a better understanding of the true nature of social interaction in the spaces and their relationships to one another, keeping in mind fluidity, displacement and also the external environment as a part of the experience of the architecture. So much of the functional aspects create an experiential side effect that I would like the architecture to suppliment the place, not overwhelm it. The experience of systems integration is the one of riding the motorcycle, or scuba diving so that you're perception of the environment (the network) is completely altered by the device. In this case the architecture, which is the device, facilitates this experience of the existing network, it does not artificially create it.
specific details:
connection betweeen modules
connection to structure
artiifical and natural lighting systems
notate life support systems accomodation
3.23.2008
Thesis Excerpts of Interest
Ryan Drummond asked, Why the ocean?
The ocean is the only earthly environment which man cannot overpower, the ocean belittles man.
“...our tools are always deployed in the service of some philosophy or ideology. If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature- even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe has to change.” _Janine Benyus
Water in this context is a mechanism, and the architecture; an experiential tool. The power and scale-less immensity of the ocean challenges human significance. The ocean transforms social structure. Community is necessitated by man’s inability to control the force of the sea.
On interdisciplinary exploration (informational systems integration) :
"...in the fertile crests between intellectual habitats. Where ecology meets agriculture, medicine, materials science, energy, computing, [architecture,] and commerce, they are learning that there is more to discover than to invent." _Janine Benyus
The ocean is the only earthly environment which man cannot overpower, the ocean belittles man.
“...our tools are always deployed in the service of some philosophy or ideology. If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature- even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe has to change.” _Janine Benyus
Water in this context is a mechanism, and the architecture; an experiential tool. The power and scale-less immensity of the ocean challenges human significance. The ocean transforms social structure. Community is necessitated by man’s inability to control the force of the sea.
On interdisciplinary exploration (informational systems integration) :
"...in the fertile crests between intellectual habitats. Where ecology meets agriculture, medicine, materials science, energy, computing, [architecture,] and commerce, they are learning that there is more to discover than to invent." _Janine Benyus
3.04.2008
Program Phase 01
Population Data_
Researchers_ 25
Family_ 45
Staff_ 20
Module Data_
A Module =45.3’ Module ≈5 levels ≈10,000 square feet
B Module =28’ Module ≈2 levels ≈1,500 square feet
C Module =17.6’ Module ≈2 levels ≈500 square feet
Solo Module =6.6’ Module =1 person
Topside Level_ 22 modules + 125 units
Recreational Landscape_ 3 A modules
Multi-sport Courts_ 2 A modules
Community Space_ 3 B modules
Exercise Space_ 2 B modules
Restaurant_ B module
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Atmospheric Laboratory_ 2 B modules
Radio + Communications Center_ B module
Solar Desalinization Units_ 100 units (one per capita)
Induction Wind Turbines_ 25 units (1/4 per capita)
Solo Pods_ 8 Solo modules
Volatile Level_ 12 modules
Main Leeward Port Entrance_ B module
Secondary Escape Port_ B module
Floating / Submersible Platform Landscape_ 10 B modules
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Coral Level_ 38 modules
Housing Units_ 12 B modules
Bathrooms_ Integrated
Experiment Frameworks_ 5 C modules
Sample Traps_ Integrated
Coral ‘Moonpool’ Laboratory_ Integrated
Decompression Chambers_ 2 C modules
Dry Specimen Laboratory_ 2 C modules
Community Space_ 2 B modules
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Restaurant_ B module
Movie Theatre_ C module
Public Computer Center / Server_ B module
Solo Pods_ 12 Solo modules
150-200m_ 25 units
Current Driven Turbines_ 25 Units (1/4 per capita)
300m Level_ 13 modulesSaturated Dive Laboratory_ B module
Decompression Chambers_ 2 C modules
Robotics Control Laboratory_ C module
Restaurant_ B module
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Computer Lab_ C moduleMovie Theatre_ C module
Seafloor Level_ 1 module
Uninhabited AUV + Submersible Charge Port_ B Module
Data Port_ Integrated
Sample Receptacle + Lift_ Integrated
Vertical Circulation_ 8 units
Buoyancy Elevators_ 2 units
Infrequent Non-Volatile Carbon Tendon Shuttles_ 3 units
Construction + Maintenance Cranes + Ports_ 3 units
External_
Kelp + Algae Growth Pods_ 100 units (1 per capita)
Fish Farm + Collection Pods_ 50 units (1/2 per capita)
Wave Energy Generation Buoys_ 25 units (1/4 per capita)
Researchers_ 25
Family_ 45
Staff_ 20
Module Data_
A Module =45.3’ Module ≈5 levels ≈10,000 square feet
B Module =28’ Module ≈2 levels ≈1,500 square feet
C Module =17.6’ Module ≈2 levels ≈500 square feet
Solo Module =6.6’ Module =1 person
Topside Level_ 22 modules + 125 units
Recreational Landscape_ 3 A modules
Multi-sport Courts_ 2 A modules
Community Space_ 3 B modules
Exercise Space_ 2 B modules
Restaurant_ B module
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Atmospheric Laboratory_ 2 B modules
Radio + Communications Center_ B module
Solar Desalinization Units_ 100 units (one per capita)
Induction Wind Turbines_ 25 units (1/4 per capita)
Solo Pods_ 8 Solo modules
Volatile Level_ 12 modules
Main Leeward Port Entrance_ B module
Secondary Escape Port_ B module
Floating / Submersible Platform Landscape_ 10 B modules
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Coral Level_ 38 modules
Housing Units_ 12 B modules
Bathrooms_ Integrated
Experiment Frameworks_ 5 C modules
Sample Traps_ Integrated
Coral ‘Moonpool’ Laboratory_ Integrated
Decompression Chambers_ 2 C modules
Dry Specimen Laboratory_ 2 C modules
Community Space_ 2 B modules
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Restaurant_ B module
Movie Theatre_ C module
Public Computer Center / Server_ B module
Solo Pods_ 12 Solo modules
150-200m_ 25 units
Current Driven Turbines_ 25 Units (1/4 per capita)
300m Level_ 13 modulesSaturated Dive Laboratory_ B module
Decompression Chambers_ 2 C modules
Robotics Control Laboratory_ C module
Restaurant_ B module
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Computer Lab_ C moduleMovie Theatre_ C module
Submersible Dry Port_ B module
Solo Pods_ 5 Solo ModulesSeafloor Level_ 1 module
Uninhabited AUV + Submersible Charge Port_ B Module
Data Port_ Integrated
Sample Receptacle + Lift_ Integrated
Vertical Circulation_ 8 units
Buoyancy Elevators_ 2 units
Infrequent Non-Volatile Carbon Tendon Shuttles_ 3 units
Construction + Maintenance Cranes + Ports_ 3 units
External_
Kelp + Algae Growth Pods_ 100 units (1 per capita)
Fish Farm + Collection Pods_ 50 units (1/2 per capita)
Wave Energy Generation Buoys_ 25 units (1/4 per capita)
Pre-Jury-Jury Reactions
I apologize to all for leaving but it was an emergency or I would not have left. I'm very glad we had this pre-jury-jury and I wish I could have seen the others because I think we're really gaining momentum and showing direction. I have been designing too much in my head still, being too careful to make everything presentable and as a result I haven't gotten to the models and perspectives which make this a real project to the jurors. I also need to clearly outline what the physical pragmatic constraints of underwater construction / architecture are. Andrew pointed out that this can be very straight forward and because the experiential aspects are entirely different. I feel that this relates to the dual nature of this project that has interested me all along and will help me show that I intend to merge the performative engineering side with the experiential poetics to create the architecture. This poetic experience however cannot be realized without a narrative. In addition to experience this gives the dimensions of the modules legitimacy showing that they can indeed fit the program in a comfortable way.
The scribble of a site plan, program level-list, and repair maintenance robotics will be enlarged and clarified for thursday along with the narrative perspectives. As Lisa pointed out it is better to show the best example of each system rather than working out the entire project to a lesser degree. In that line of thought, the perspective become a background for overlaying the information (plan, section, detail, 3D view) about each module which facilitates that experience. Hopefully with the jury upcoming we can discuss which parts of the project hold the most potential for being taking to larger scales and worked out in more detail.
Narrative Perspectives for Thursday: Surface Port Entry> Main Coral Level Lobby / Divers> Topside Courtyard> Housing Unit> Deep Laboratory> Solo Cathedral Pod
Also the NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association) IOOS (Integrated Ocean Observing System) Diagram which I forgot to present last night will help put this in a scientific context.
The overall structure of the presentation can then be first pragmatic and then the experiential one of the user and follow the narrative I have layed out above. Perfomance + Experience as Design + Affect.
The scribble of a site plan, program level-list, and repair maintenance robotics will be enlarged and clarified for thursday along with the narrative perspectives. As Lisa pointed out it is better to show the best example of each system rather than working out the entire project to a lesser degree. In that line of thought, the perspective become a background for overlaying the information (plan, section, detail, 3D view) about each module which facilitates that experience. Hopefully with the jury upcoming we can discuss which parts of the project hold the most potential for being taking to larger scales and worked out in more detail.
Narrative Perspectives for Thursday: Surface Port Entry> Main Coral Level Lobby / Divers> Topside Courtyard> Housing Unit> Deep Laboratory> Solo Cathedral Pod
Also the NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association) IOOS (Integrated Ocean Observing System) Diagram which I forgot to present last night will help put this in a scientific context.
The overall structure of the presentation can then be first pragmatic and then the experiential one of the user and follow the narrative I have layed out above. Perfomance + Experience as Design + Affect.
2.17.2008
Abstract 01
Systemic 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 relationship between water and architecture to develop a connection with the ocean as an environment to be understood and 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 within this context is never complete but is continuously responsive to the dynamic network of which it is a system.
240 words.
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 relationship between water and architecture to develop a connection with the ocean as an environment to be understood and 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 within this context is never complete but is continuously responsive to the dynamic network of which it is a system.
240 words.
2.13.2008
Quarter Jury
I was immediately thrown off by the juror's question about my position on systems thinking. I think my case studies from last semester would have been helpful in stating my position and creating architectural strategies which relate to the systemic architectural process. I think this unclear stance on systems and the difference between systemic v. systematic negated the architectural ideas about experience, program, displacement and construction which i thought the jury was going to be about. Instead of taking in the juror's comments I was trying to defend ideas that I wasn't expecting to defend. If you have any comments and ideas that were mentioned I'd appreciate if you could re-state those for me.
I think the jurors understood the idea that it was a growing and biological concept and the DNA reference as it applied to other oil platforms and programs. One juror even questioned the twin duplication of architecture on separate but identical platforms.
Some Points:
Clarify and Define Systems thinking; Systemic v. Systematic:
Systematic: Done or acting according to a fixed plan or system.
Systemic: Of or relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part
Use Case Studies to illustrate Systemic Devices + Explore and Diagram design process to serve as framework for Systemic Architectural Design Process
Clarify Quotes for possible interpretation.
Extend the architectural DNA to other rigs and programs to exemplify the systemic nature and process of the architecture.
I think the jurors understood the idea that it was a growing and biological concept and the DNA reference as it applied to other oil platforms and programs. One juror even questioned the twin duplication of architecture on separate but identical platforms.
Some Points:
Clarify and Define Systems thinking; Systemic v. Systematic:
Systematic: Done or acting according to a fixed plan or system.
Systemic: Of or relating to a system, especially as opposed to a particular part
Use Case Studies to illustrate Systemic Devices + Explore and Diagram design process to serve as framework for Systemic Architectural Design Process
Clarify Quotes for possible interpretation.
Extend the architectural DNA to other rigs and programs to exemplify the systemic nature and process of the architecture.
2.09.2008
Added.
I've added some quotes on the side bar as well as i wanted to share these drawings I was refered to that i would like to use as reference for my own process and presentation. These drawings aren't singular but contain layered and composed elements or systesms of information from many different mediums and types of studies in conjunction with reference material to support the process of each study. The process systems are composed into a network of information. http://www.1-ab.com/kulper.htm
1.30.2008
New Schedule
Break:
Redefine Theory.
Schedule
Digital Site Model
Programmatic Diagrams
Case Studies: Salk Institute, Mobius House, Yokohama International Terminal
Basic Dimensional Information for Models
1/8_
1 Stewardson Competition
2 PARTI and Site Analysis
Quarter Jury 2/8 DESIGN PARTI
Parti: SPATIAL + PROGRAMMATIC
1 Develop conceptual systems diagrams (1= diagrams)
2 Create presentation site sections in autoCAD to draw over synthesis drawing
conceptual model (scale 1"=100' (tentative)) for gestural, spatial and programmatic relationships
experiential / spatial perspectives with superimposed plan and sectional information
Update Thesis Document
3/8_
MATERIAL + TECTONIC
1 develop tectonic language + materials
2 Module + Module Connection Sections
mid jury 4/8 SCHEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF PARTI
REPRESENT EXPERIENCE + TRANSFORMATION
1 Mapping integrated informational network of Oilrigs in Gulf of Mexico
2 Update Thesis Document
5/8_
1 merges and perspectives
2 Update + Design Final Thesis Document
3Quarter JURY 6/8_ DETAILED DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
1 REFINE SMALL SCALE: Module Model @ 8th Scale
2THESIS DOCUMENT DUE
7/8
1 Format Final Presentation:
Scale Previous Drawings
Large format hand drawn Transformational sections over AutoCAD Drawings
refine + develop previous drawings
2 1/4" scale details +
experience perspectives
8/8 final jury_
1 Final Model Prep: Welding + more experience perspectives
2 FINAL MODEL + Presentation Idea
Large Scale Section model or Entire Tower Welded + Intervention
Rig=1900’ = 19” @ 100th = 1.5’
=38” @ 50th = 2.1’
=43” @ 32nd = 3.7’
=76” @ 25th = 6.3’
Section=500’= 5” @ 100th = .45’
=10” @ 50th = .8’
=41.6” @ 12th = 3.5’
Module= TBD
Redefine Theory.
Schedule
Digital Site Model
Programmatic Diagrams
Case Studies: Salk Institute, Mobius House, Yokohama International Terminal
Basic Dimensional Information for Models
1/8_
1 Stewardson Competition
2 PARTI and Site Analysis
Quarter Jury 2/8 DESIGN PARTI
Parti: SPATIAL + PROGRAMMATIC
1 Develop conceptual systems diagrams (1= diagrams)
2 Create presentation site sections in autoCAD to draw over synthesis drawing
conceptual model (scale 1"=100' (tentative)) for gestural, spatial and programmatic relationships
experiential / spatial perspectives with superimposed plan and sectional information
Update Thesis Document
3/8_
MATERIAL + TECTONIC
1 develop tectonic language + materials
2 Module + Module Connection Sections
mid jury 4/8 SCHEMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF PARTI
REPRESENT EXPERIENCE + TRANSFORMATION
1 Mapping integrated informational network of Oilrigs in Gulf of Mexico
2 Update Thesis Document
5/8_
1 merges and perspectives
2 Update + Design Final Thesis Document
3Quarter JURY 6/8_ DETAILED DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
1 REFINE SMALL SCALE: Module Model @ 8th Scale
2THESIS DOCUMENT DUE
7/8
1 Format Final Presentation:
Scale Previous Drawings
Large format hand drawn Transformational sections over AutoCAD Drawings
refine + develop previous drawings
2 1/4" scale details +
experience perspectives
8/8 final jury_
1 Final Model Prep: Welding + more experience perspectives
2 FINAL MODEL + Presentation Idea
Large Scale Section model or Entire Tower Welded + Intervention
Rig=1900’ = 19” @ 100th = 1.5’
=38” @ 50th = 2.1’
=43” @ 32nd = 3.7’
=76” @ 25th = 6.3’
Section=500’= 5” @ 100th = .45’
=10” @ 50th = .8’
=41.6” @ 12th = 3.5’
Module= TBD
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