ADS AIR 2012 | Architectural DiscourseElizabeth Caltabiano

Progress JournalDavid Lister

BABIY YAR MEMORIAL2010

Design Director:Roland Snooks

Design Team:Casey Rehm, Fleet Hower, Bryant Netter

This speculative project reconsiders the monument as object, instead positing the formation of an immersive space of remembrance, a space that emerges from the landscape and is carved from within a somber stone monolith – an inverted monument. This project explores the emergence of a space, rich with intricate detail, reflecting the culmination of individual differences within a multitude. The memorial is designed through the use of complex non-linear systems in which coherent order and space emerge from interactions at a local scale.

BABIY YAR MEMORIAL2010

Design Director:Roland Snooks

Design Team:Casey Rehm, Fleet Hower, Bryant Netter

This speculative project reconsiders the monument as object, instead positing the formation of an immersive space of remembrance, a space that emerges from the landscape and is carved from within a somber stone monolith – an inverted monument. This project explores the emergence of a space, rich with intricate detail, reflecting the culmination of individual differences within a multitude. The memorial is designed through the use of complex non-linear systems in which coherent order and space emerge from interactions at a local scale.

BABIY YAR MEMORIAL2010

Design Director:Roland Snooks

Design Team:Casey Rehm, Fleet Hower, Bryant Netter

This speculative project reconsiders the monument as object, instead positing the formation of an immersive space of remembrance, a space that emerges from the landscape and is carved from within a somber stone monolith – an inverted monument. This project explores the emergence of a space, rich with intricate detail, reflecting the culmination of individual differences within a multitude. The memorial is designed through the use of complex non-linear systems in which coherent order and space emerge from interactions at a local scale.

Babiy yar memorial | Kokkugia

Kokkugia has designed a space of “rich and intricate detail”, however the interior lacks consistency and relevance to the outside elements. This, I believe is an indication of the pitfalls engendered throughout the advancement of architectural dis-course. In relation to the Western Gateway Design brief however, I intend to incorporate the virtuosity and exquisite detail of which Kok-kugia has represented in their me-morial project. The creativity of the purely speculative project exudes qualities that translate directly to the installation.

Babiy yar memorial

HIGH RISE TOPOWER

Absolute Towers| Ma Yan-song/ MAD Architects

Although seemingly simple in design, Yansong’s casu-ally twisted high rise towers provide a beacon for the city of Mississauga. The towers themselves seem to radiate a promising future for the sky-line of the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. A new

standard has been set that ensures the progression of a newer, refreshed architectural discourse.

MAD Architects have created a digitally designed building - pretentious in its height yet guileless in its form, of which emanates the beauty of organ-ic architecture and the effect an appropriate level of para-

metric design can create.

It has been recognised as a sculptural form of which has a similar purpose to the Gate-way proposal. Through the in-tegration of Yansong’s forward looking approach, an upgrade of the Wyndam City’s image can be better achieved.

Ma Yansong’s

Forest Veil Pavillion | Elizabeth Caltabiano

‘Forest Veil’, a memorial pavillion dedicated to the Black Saturday bushfires, is a project I designed in response to a brief requiring a pavillion in RMIT’s Bowen Street. Through the process of Digitisation and Fabrication I was able to appro-priately convey my idea for a 3-part plywood pavillion - using CNC ma-chines to pierce the wood and cre-ate an enlightening experience as

the participant walks through. The design embodies the surroundings as well as evoking the emotional tie to Black Saturday. I believe this has been and always will be at the crux of the architectural discourse - archi-tecture that elicits a sense of sym-bolism and meaning. The pavillion is a very relevant example I am pas-sionate about and evidently a very effective way of illustrating my link to the requirements of the proposed installation.

F O R E S T V E I L

“Unbuild-able and

indul-gent?”

THE VERY MANY COMBINE ART, ARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTATION TO PUSH THE LIMITS.

The CHanging ROLE of digital technology

THE VERY MANY directed by Mark Fornes is an unequiovo-cal example of the effects of contemporary computational design techniques. The most up to date programs, plug ins and scripting interfaces such as Rhino and Python are used to create forms that incite emotion and evoke a tangible form pre-

senting the “creative capacities of computing”. As Dr. Stanislav Roudavski states,“ new meth-ods change the conventional relationships between such fundamental categories as idea generation...”. This is evident throughout the work of The Very Many. The ambition of this firm is to deliberately play with

the risky conflict between re-search and design. Their “messy and non linear” approach to the design process is actually deeply rule based and This contrasts di-rectly to Kalay’s methodical reci-pes for design solutions in the text “Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Meth-ods of Computer Aided Design.

nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator | Lyon, France | Sept-Dec 2009

Unroll & Nesting (RhinoNest): Skylar Tibbits

n|Edg” assembly is written within a continuous series of investigations at different scale:+ the overall: development of protocols of sur-face relaxation – in order for the surface to generate best fit curva-ture in response to fix hanging or support points (floor, ceiling, walls) as curvature despite generating ap-parent complexity – also provides natural structural stiffness.+ surface reconstruction (or tessel-

lation): previous work focused on describing complex surfaces with flat components however after working for different “high end” architectural and design practices the director realised the only way to keep pushing non standard environments is to introduce the economy of parts as part of the equation – therefore early tests were first looking at ways to trian-gulate complex surfaces

SAWAPANSawapan Designs, of which _______ Sawako and _______ Pan-agiotis are the leading design-ers are parametric design researchers and conduct their own findings based on informa-tion given to them from iconic architects such as Zaha Hadid etc.

- designed their own software- plug in for rhino- flash example of work dem-onstrate various interactive based designs- Graphemes and Topostruct

Graphemes is an experimen-tal design program based on graph theory and a dynamic spring force model. It has two main functions. First the design of 2 and 3 dimensional structures through the use of topological operations where

the emphasis of the interface design is on connectivity of nodes. The real time spring model simulation will regular-ize the structure automatically. The second function of the program is to try and develop the structural intuition of the user by providing fast structur-al analysis of the design sys-tem. Hence one can observe in near real time how changes in the connectivity graph of a space frame affect its struc-tural behaviour.There are two versions graph-emes and graphemes_sound. The only difference is that graphemes_sound is compiled with directsound support and has some experimental fea-tures of sonification of the cur-rent sructure and its dynamics.

“Our research aims in developing design solutions that respect criteria of structural efficiency and architec-

tural intentions by interrogating the intrinsic properties of forms and their embedding space.”

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