ARCH 5901 FA08 Pongratz
From TTU College of Architecture
Christian R Pongratz
Office: 705 C
Email: Christian.Pongratz@ttu.edu
Studio location: 702
Phone: 806-742-3169-226
Course time:
M,W,F>1-16.20 P.M.
Course Information: ARCH 3502
design studio with focus building envelope
Credits: 5 semester credit hours
manifold ecologies
Manifold Ecologies is a Design Studio that will explore the potentials of the digital craft for the generation of dynamic organizational structures on the urban and architectural scale. The concepts of emergence and deep surface will form the basis of research for the imagination of space.
Emergence is the movement from low-level rules to higher level sophistication,…a higher level pattern arising out of parallel complex interactions between local agents. Johnson S.
Deep surface is The aggregation of air filled voids, which springs from a questionable victory over the solid and appears to turn upside down the natural order within nature. It seems to be emerging from an illegitimate marriage of elements. Sloterdyk P.
As opposed to this common disrespect of the seemingly vague, the latent, the close to arbitrary, and the irregular, the Studio will take the foam model as example and work on a rehabilitation of its inherent processes and expressions. In order to complement the widely used methodologies of becoming, such as drift, repetition with difference, processes of chaos or creative recombination, we will explore the term explication, in the sense of a discrete move from one condition to the next.
The studio will inquire strategies of “vertical urbanism” through the design research of high-rise building by integrating structural characteristics and behavior with evolutionary material systems. Models of exploration related to the geometry, shape and behavior of natural systems will support proposals of surface structures with flexure and stiffness. The design process will implement topological modeling techniques to populate forms for high-rise structure and envelope with hybrid skins as versatile material aggregates.
Do we face the future city households to be only single person households? Does one work/ live in the same space? What is the e-community of the 21st century like? Think about the home-office of the metropolitan “trans-modern” individual?
Residential “i-space” is central to the investigation and the definition of mixed programs for vertical structures and explored as an innovative hybrid with private to public and work atmospheres. The project’ effects of program mix, design culture and customized fabrication, play on the recent development concept of lifestyle environments. Implemented into a contemporary large, public urban development zone in New York, the project’ effects of hyper density, scale and experimental mixed use maximize the function as urban interface into a strategic point of energy to Re-urbanize the city.
studio requirements:
The studio projects must fulfill the comprehensive design requirements according to the NAAB criteria (site, structure, envelope, program, environmental systems, assembly, codes etc..) , but in particular follow the objectives of the instructor, which will be outlined in the course syllabus.
The purpose of education is not the product but the design process. (aias.org)
Emphasis will be placed on the design process integrating many individual parts and being the integrative structure in today’s practice. Teamwork and understanding of roles in project teams are essential skills in the workplace and will be trained as collaborative experiences. Students will be asked to reflect on contemporary design culture especially in terms of the interdisciplinary collaboration and its effects on design performance. The students need to engage in solutions dealing with principles of sustainability and appropriate methods of industrial fabrication.
The studio culture will be based on intense digital media skills and students are afforded strong modeling experiences. Previous work in Maya, Max or Rhino is an advantage, but the unit will explore explicit tactics in tools according to the instructors choice.
The studio is intended to include a site visit in NYC according to instructors schedule.
Additional requirements will be discussed @ initial studio meeting.
research topics
A) High-Rise concepts
B) Natural Systems
C) Design and Fabrication Systems
themes
Living-space:
Work-space:
Urban program mix:
MANifold ECOlogies strategies
A series of inquiries on the made to fit strategy implement research into the studio project with instruments that mediate collected information effectively.
What is a possible generating diagram, the abstract machine, the machine of behavior that will generate the project?
Emergence
Deep Surface
Diagram
Tools & Techniques
MANifold ECOlogies site
All proposals must address the site of the Special West Chelsea District, a large mixed use plot near the historic Chelsea in South West Manhattan.
The recent zoning changes to the Chelsea district in NYC creates unique opportunities for development compared to New York’s history, as they change the use destination and increase floor area and bulk in one of the most popular districts of Manhattan.
reading
Rem Koolhaas, “Delirious New York”, The Monacelli Press, NY 1994
Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, “Collage City”, MITPress,1984
Robert Venturi, “Learning from Las Vegas: The forgotten symbolism of architectural form”, MITPress, 1977
Guy Debord, “Society of the Spectacle”, Black and Red, Detroit, 1983
Gilles Deleuze, “Difference and Repetition”, transl. By Paul Patton, Columbia Press NY, 1994, chapter IV, ideas and the synthesis of difference, pp.208-221
Elisabeth Grosz, “Lived Spatiality, Spaces of Corporeal Desire”, Brian Boigon - Culture Lab 1, Princeton Press, NY 1995
Felix Guattari, “On Machines”, Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, Complexity, 1995
Sanford Kwinter, “The Genealogy of Models: the Hammer and the Song”, Any23, 1998
De Landa Manuel, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
De Landa Manuel, Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy (Continuum Impacts)
Complexity and Emergence:
Prigogine Ilya: Introduction to Thermodynamics of irreversible processes, Wiley, 1967
Shannon and Weaver, The mathematical theory of Communication, Univ. Illinois Press, 1963,
Saunders PT, The collective works of Alan Turing, Vol3, Morphogenesis, The chemical basis of.., Geometrical and descriptive Phyllotaxis…1952
Holland, John H, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems, An introductory analysis with applications to biology, control and Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press 1992
Holland, John H, Hidden order, How adaptation builds complexity, Addison Wesley, 1996
Holland, John H, Emergence from chaos to order, Oxford Un. Press 1998
Johnson Steven, Emergence, the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software, Scribner,2001
Kauffman SA, Antichaos and adaptation, Scientific American 1991
Kauffman SA, The origins of order, Selforganization and selection in evolution, Oxford Press 1993
Kauffman SA, At home in the universe, The search for laws of selforganization and complexity, Oxford Press, 1995
Heylighen Francis, Selforganization, Emergence and the architecture of complexity, Proceedings of 1st European Conference on System science, 1989
Lindenmayer A, Prusinkiewicz P., The Algorithmic beauty of plants, Springer Verlag, 1990
Mitchell, W.,The logic of architecture, MIT Press, 1989
Wolfram Stephen, A new kind of science, Wolfram Media Illinois, 2002
Wolfram Stephen, Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected papers, Addison Wesley, 1994
Hersey George L., Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, On Growth and Form
>Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (?)
>Journal of theroretical biology
SOUND OF THE STUDIO: “Karma”, Delerium (www.nettwerk.com)
FILM OF THE STUDIO: “Brazil”, Terry Gilliam
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