Monday, 28 October 2013

>>> Pin up Thursday Oct. 31st at 9:00-12:00_the Gym

The focus of the pin up will be on communication.
All material (incl. zig-zag book sheets) should be mounted 8:00-9:00. All models are to be placed on
a. the table marked with your team´s number or
b. arranged on the floor in team-specific island" between the two long tables / the blue marking on the floor in such a way that there is a passage in between your "island of models" and the tables / neighboring "islands".
Book sheets are to be pinned up on the wall-mounted soft boards - please note that
a. team 1-9 should pin up on the wall facing the passage from Studsgade to Noerreport, and team 10-18 should pin up on the wall facing the school yard parking lot.
b. immediate relation between your models and your book sheets is not of paramount importance to the pin up discussion.
Team 1-9
1. Claudia & Jasmine / 2. Mads & Logan / 3. Peng & Lasse / 4. Julie & Alexander / 5. Frederik & Dilja / 6. Maya & Anne Kathrine / 7. Marius & Kristoffer / 8. Esther & August / 9. Eva & Lærke / 10. Amalie & Morten
Team 10-18
11. Gabriela / Francisca / 12. Liv & Thea / 13. Quing, Morten & Jannik / 14. Eirin & Iben / 15. Max & Fabian / 16. Erik & Malene / 17. Asger & Frederik / 18. Louise & Victor

Friday, 25 October 2013

>>> Monday Oct. 28th

Relating existing production to the assignment hand-in requirements all teams are asked to produce a time schedule specifying planned production following pin up Oct. 24th till hand-in of Ph. III on Nov. 6th. 9am (1 sheet). Furthermore to establish a "contract" between team members specifying production responsibilities (1 sheet).
The time schedule and "contract" (altogether 2 sheets) should be presented as subject to discussion at the drawing tables Monday, and they should subsequently be expected to be requiring daily revision according to de facto progression.
Please note, that there will be a pin up Thursday Oct. 31st 9am-12 noon (approx.) in the Gym.

Sunday, 6 October 2013

>>> Phase 3 [P3] Constructing membranes


Frei Otto, Roof for the Multihalle in Manheim – installing the grid  (1974-1975) [1]

“(...) The more we reveal nature’s material connections, and the more we feel the need to make our cities true urban landscapes – that is, nature formed by the intellect – the clearer it becomes that the character of the skin or membrane between the exterior space and the dimension of the body basically relates to the way in which the space is defined and dimensioned on a psycho-physical level (…).”
Segfried Ebeling  [2]


In [P1] potential relations between body><covering><environment and materiality<>phenomena<>effects were explored. Applying the same optics, in [P2] the structural and material properties of selected examples from the 20th century Western history of architecture were analysed thus creating a collective archive of exemplary architectural materializations of relations body><covering><environment. Maintaining this focus, through the performance of series of experiments [P3] aims at the generation of space(-s) within potential membranes which embody specific relations between the human body and the phenomenon selected in [P1].


“(…) Field conditions are bottom-up phenomena, defined not by overarching geometrical schemas but by intricate local connections. Form matters, but not so much the forms of things as the form between things. (…)”
Stan Allen [3]

All students are asked to team up, choosing a partner who in the [P1] investigated phenomena which differs from their own. The team is required to choose a structural principle explored and documented in the [P2] archive. On the basis of the commonly selected structural principle each team is asked to perform investigations in which they focus on potential materializations of specific relations human body><covering><environment affected by their chosen weather phenomena.

[m.o. #1] Based on initial intentions regarding relations body><covering ><environment – environment understood as her or his selected phenomenon - each student is asked to define a set of parameters which the student find should guide further production within the team. These parameters should define the delimitations of the team´s negotiation on which common structural principle further investigations are to be based.
The discussion of parameters should be based on an initial testing of consequences materialized in diagrams; test models et.al.


“(…)Time always expresses itself by producing, or more precisely, by drawing matter into a process of becoming ever-different, (…).”
Sanford Kwinter [4]

[m.o. #2] – following the choice of common structural principle, each team is asked to define common parameters concerning:
> ‘time-scale’ or speed – having an impact on the character of differences studied, the team is asked to choose between relating their investigations in [P3] to a 24-hour or a 12-month or a 20-year cycle.
> situation – in this context meaning longitude – latitude; n-e-s-w orientation

[m.o. #3] – development of a series of probes
Within their common parametric framework, each team is asked to initiate the production of a series of probes testing potential materializations of particular relationships between human body><covering ><environment.
The production of each probe should be based on programming a strategy to act upon or against previously investigated phenomena, furthermore on the definition of intentions concerning production of specific effect(s). In other words, the production should be guided by the formulation of clear research questions and followed by analysis of the results in order to extract potential conclusions allowing the development of probes to be performed in a dialogue between intention and discovery.
Thus the production of each probe is expected to inform the production of following. 

Thu. October 10th 12:30
[Pin up #1]
Team presentation of choice of:
> structural principle
> ‘time-scale’ or speed
The presentation should include documentation of the process leading to the specific parametric choices made.

Material to be presented:
Production investigating the potential consequences of the team´s parametric decisions.
1 page announcing preliminary further investigation programme. The following is required:
> preliminary title relating to subject matter of the anticipated investigations
> a description of chosen structural principle
> a description of chosen ‘time-scale’ or speed
> a description of chosen situation
> the first and last names of the authors

> format: an A3 format reduced to 29.7 x 32,7. With a 3 cm zone reserved for gluing, this leaves 29.7cm x 29.7cm for graphic lay out.
>paper code: Technical drawing paper 185 gr.
>font: Times New Roman
>margins: 3,5cm t/b/l/r of the graphic lay out zone.
– for further information, please follow the [P2] layout guide

Thu. October 24th
[Pin up #2]
Team presentation of:
> a minimum of 4 probes
> the parameters guiding the production of each presented probe
> conclusions drawn from the production of each presented probe
> relation between conclusions drawn and their influence on progression in the production of the presented probes

All material should be processed, comprehensively and coherently organized and presented in a zigzag-folded book (one side printed).
>format: an A3 format is reduced to 29.7 x 32,7. With a 3 cm zone reserved for gluing, this leaves 29.7cm x 29.7cm for graphic lay out. Please note that the last page should not have a gluing zone meaning the format of the last page is 29.7 x 29.7 cm.
>paper code: Technical drawing paper 185 gr.
>font: Times New Roman
>margins: 3,5cm t/b/l/r of the graphic lay out zone.

For further information on lay out guidelines, see [P2]. Please note that the specific layout and required number of pages in the book will depend on the nature of the produced and/or collected material, however it should contain:

> 1 revised page announcing programme of investigation focusing on the membrane as a mediator <body><environment>
2 pages per probe
> documenting the particular qualities developed in each probe
> documenting investigations and experiments performed leading to the production of each probe
> announcing subject matter of investigations and announcing parameters framing the performance of experiments
> announcing conclusions drawn from each investigation/experiment/probe
All source material – quotes, references, images etc. – must announce source according to the provided reference system.
All material investigated or developed in relation to the production of probes should be available at the presentation.

Thu. November 7th
[Pin up #3] Hand-in
Team presentation of:
> a series of ʻfinal’ models and/or prototypes that framed by the chosen parameters concerning ʻtime-scale’ or speed and situation, document the materialization of specific relations between the human body><covering ><environment.
All material should be processed, comprehensive and coherently organized and presented in the zigzag-folded book (one side printed). For information on format; paper code et. al., see [Pin up #2].

Please note that the specific layout and required number of pages in the book will depend on the nature of the produced and/or collected material, however in relation to each final’ model and/or prototype as a minimum the following is required:

> announcement of the act of covering: a description of the relation between the investigated phenomena and the covering materialized.
>a description of the covering: its physiognomy, scale, material properties;
>in relation to the human body a description of the effect(s) produced: its/their physical properties and their intentional appearance related to time-scale’ or speed. This should be supplemented by reflections on the character of the potential experiential qualities developed.
>a description of intentional other effects produced.
All material presented in the book should be critically selected in order to document findings during development of the final’ models and/or prototypes.
All source material – quotes, references, images etc. – must announce source according to the provided reference system.
The books are to be delivered both on paper and as a PDF documents uploaded to the shared folder >>>> Shared (R) >Bachelor >Unit 2+3d_AL >F2013 >Phase III
All material investigated or developed in relation to the production of models/prototypes should be available at the presentation.

Method:  
Research by design using model construction as tool of inquiry in the investigation of materialized relationships between the human body-environment. In this context environment is understood as a selected climatic phenomenon and materialization as the development of covering(-s).  
Team work (2 students) in dialogue with individual production.

Media:            
Models, and a process ‘log’ extracted in a contribution to the publication of a book.


Duration:       
Oct. 7th – Nov. 7th.

Objectives:   
delimitation of field of investigation; the application of critically focused data search and processing in the development of a series of architectural probes; using models as a tool of inquiry the construction of experiments enabling relevant conclusions to be drawn in a dialogue intention-discovery; based on conclusions extracting potentials for further development.

Calendar:       
Mon. Oct. 7th      
9:00am: [P3] Introduction/ Glasburet, Paradisga
10:00am Readings discussion/ Glasburet
Thu. Oct. 10th     
12:30pm [Pin up #1]/Studio
Thu. Oct. 24th    
9:00am: [Pin up #2] Laden S/N / Nørreport
Thu. Nov. 7th              
9:00am [Pin up #3] Hand-in/ The Gym, Paradisgade                                

Readings:

ÁBALOS, Iñaki “Thermodynamic Beauty” in: Ábalos + Sentkiewicz, 2G, n56, January 2011, pp. 126-136

ALLEN, Stan (2009) “From Object to Field. Field Conditions in Architecture + Urbanism” in: ALLEN, Stan: Practice: Architecture, technique + representation, New York: Routledge, pp. 217-243

Architectural Design: Energies: New Material Boundaries

HILL, Jonathan (2012) Weather Architecture, Routledge,

KWINTER, Sanford (2002) Architectures of Time. Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture, MIT Press paperback edition, Cambridge, Massachusetts

LEATHERBARROW, David (2009) “Breathing Walls” and “Unscripted Performances” in: LEATHERBARROW, David: Architecture Oriented Otherwise, New York: Princeton Architectural Press

SOMOL, Robert; WHITING, Sarah (2002) “Notes about the Doppler Effect and other Moods of Modernism” in: Perspecta 33, The Yale Architectural Journal, pp. 72-77

Links:




[1] OTTO, Frei, Roof for the Multihalle in Manheim – installing the grid  (1974-1975) in: NERDINGER, Winfried (ed.) (2005) Frei Otto. Complete works. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser, p.289

[2] EBELING, Segfried (2010 [1926]) Space as a Membrane, London: Architectural Association Publications, pp.9-10, (original edition: Der Raum als Membran, Dessau, 1926)

[3] ALLEN, Stan (2009) “From Object to Field. Field Conditions in Architecture + Urbanism” in: ALLEN, Stan: Practice: Architecture, technique + representation, New York: Routledge, p. 218

[4] KWINTER, Sanford (2002) Architectures of Time. Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture, MIT Press paperback edition, Cambridge, Massachusetts, p.4