abstraction design and reuse

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/ ITA Institute of Technology in Architecture / Faculty of Architecture / ETH Zurich / Chair for CAAD / Nikola Marincic / / 22.02Abstraction Design & Reuse

Architects are never working directlywith the object of their thought,

always working at it through some

intervening medium (almost alwaysthe drawing, while painters and

sculptors, who might spend some

time working on preliminary sketches

and models, all ended up working on

the thing itself).

Robin Evans, The Projective Cast, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 286-287.

Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Plan: Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books on


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...design medium

Architects are never working directlywith the object of their thought,

always working at it through some

intervening medium (almost alwaysthe drawing, while painters and

sculptors, who might spend some

time working on preliminary sketches

and models, all ended up working on

the thing itself).

Robin Evans, The Projective Cast, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 286-287.

Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Plan: Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books on


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Layer1

architect

Layer2

design medium

Layer 3

built object

symbolizing, articulating, expressing, memorizing (designing o

building itself (expressing order)

thinking about design: concept, motivation, goal, phenomena


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Layer1

architect

Layer2

design medium

Layer 3

built object

symbolizing, articulating, expressing, memorizing (designing o

building itself (expressing order)

thinking about design: concept, motivation, goal, phenomena



icnografia, ortografia, sceno

Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Plan: Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books on Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. Print. Perspective machine



diagrams, models , photos, filmOMA, Trs Grande Bibliothque (Very Big Library) Paris, F



computers

story of computerized design tools isthe story of how computer programs

are defining this medium

design tools are also concerned with making it

operable in a way that it is possible to describe

certain view on architectural artifacts within itself.



Each program represents a certain

architecture, usually in a form of ima

simulating geometrical virtual space

symbolize architectural elements via

Tools are creating architectural abstr

form of virtuality, and finally renderingof a technical language, necessary t

to reality

How these abstractions are designe

can operate on them is the key of un

power and the limits of contempora



genealogy ofcomputerized

design tools



CAD

point, line, circle...

copy, rotate, scale, trim...

digitizing the analogue

group, layer


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3D CAD / BIM

Surface Modelers / Visualisation

Solid Modelers

Drawing + Modeling Integration


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Issuesmanual work single level of abstraction scale of non-flexible


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Specific modeling

Direct relation between concrete element and symbolization of th

Bounded to the topography of virtual space / simulating euclidian

Geometrical relations between the elements

No abstraction

Top down, representative


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Greg Lynn FORM, drawing comparing composite and spl

Aristocracy of lines, geometry

that is assembled from circular

arcs, his own version of the

Vitruvian Figures aesthetical ethic

of the whole made up of discrete

parts. If any part of the line ischanged, all the others have to be

recalculated and redrawnseparately to be re-integrated into

the line.


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Greg Lynn FORM, drawing comparing composite

... second curve is defined by a

spline geometry based on the flow

of forces through the curve; this

force is regulated by the position

of the triangular handles.

Parametrics


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Flow of forces

Continuity

Control

Rules

Bottom up, operative

Greg Lynn FORM, drawing comparing composite


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control


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EVERYONE DOING THE


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From On Growth and Form, by Darcy Wentworth Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 1917, 1942, 1952

Topology / Topography


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File > New

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How can design

tools challenge IT?


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H d l hi i h


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How can we model architecture withoutspecifying direct relation betweenrepresentational symbol and concrete ele

being modeled, but with relation-ability oarchitectural abstractions?

H d l hi i h


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How can we model architecture withoutspecifying direct relation betweenrepresentational symbol and concrete ele

being modeled, but with relation-ability oarchitectural abstractions?

How can we design tools in a way that w

start from tabula rasa design conditions from abundance of existing contentavailinternet with with which we can empoweabstractions?


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Proposed solution


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Proposed solution

Digital diagrams of levels of abstraction


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Proposed solution


Self-organizing ma


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Proposed solution


Self-organizing ma

Parametric model


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Proposed solution


Self-organizing ma

Parametric model


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Digital diagon different levels of abs


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Operating between form and word,space and language, the diagram is

both constitutive and projective. It is

performative rather than

representational.Anthony Vidler, Architectural Principles in the age of Cybernetics

Kazuyo Sejima, Project for Middle Rise Housing Prototypes, 1995. Plans. Assemblage 30 (August 1996)


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Ludger Hovestadt: A4-digitales Bauen, 1994


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P t i M d l


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Parametric Model and the logic of form


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Michael Hansmeyer, Subdivided Columns - A New


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Self-Organizing Mapand the clustering of architectural concepts


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Self-Organizing

Map

Parame

Mode

Double articulation

ORGAN

formcontent


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D l t f th t


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LEVEL 2: global reuse / internet

Development of these too

LEVEL 1: local reuse / local memory


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