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.
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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.
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
_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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