October 2009 Archives
I think this is the best view, cutting through 3 floors. Only one problem, we wont see people on the fron, only on the back of the floors. Or I could try to print people on the front, over the dome, with the acetone technique but not sure how confusing that'd be.
I like the people in the interior but not the exterior yet, I am trying to create the swirl movement on the outside crowd... any suggestions? maybe i will have to render the people because is hard to do it from a photograph.
I like the people in the interior but not the exterior yet, I am trying to create the swirl movement on the outside crowd... any suggestions? maybe i will have to render the people because is hard to do it from a photograph.
here 2 options for the 3d model of the Guggenheim inside the dome. I think the smaller one works better (top image). Thickness and top surface yet to finish (nowthe ramp ijust interrupted) but the white lines show the section given by the dome.
Also!! I found out I can transfer ink with acetone to the plastic domes, which means I can print over a curved surface. good.
Also!! I found out I can transfer ink with acetone to the plastic domes, which means I can print over a curved surface. good.
cloudy texture for the "world made by bits and pieces" side and crack texture for the "world deprived from Form" side. All the moulds for vac. forming will be ready tomorrow (I hope)...
Form looks at the world and sees formlessness, shapes generated by bits and parts...
They did not listen, so She punished them and deprived them from form. [...missing... explanation of a world deprived from form...]. Men asked for forgiveness and Form posed an exercise on formalization in which she would be more than dignified. Deified.
Form looked at Architecture and saw the result of formlessness. She found no expression in Herself. Men had undervalued Her and, thus, disabled Her. She looked at men and asked for dignification and ennoblement, as She had been their means to physical existence, their former.
"To think for a moment of what a home holds - not just the phisycal allotments we accumulate, but it is place that holds the occasions and events, the memories and hopes, worries and joys, love and loneliness. It is not in tall theatres, stoic churches or magnificent museums; it is in rooms of small proportions and mundane spaces that our days are played out."
"Ghost Houses Long Gone". Nigel Peake 2007
FORMALIZATION TAKES COMMAND. An exercise on shape.
"There are not concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies."[1]
Form forgotten
Form forborne
Form forbidden
Form foredoomed
Form forfended
Form forfeited
Form forlorn
Form looked at Architecture and saw the result of formlessness. She found no expression in Herself. Men had undervalued Her and, thus, disabled Her. She looked at men and asked for dignification and ennoblement, as She had been their means to physical existence, their former. They did not listen, so She punished them and deprived them from form. [...missing... explanation of a world deprived from form...]. Men asked for forgiveness and Form posed an exercise on formalization in which she would be more than dignified. Deified.
First She asked men to express Circulation. This should be its one and only trait, any other characteristic inherent to architecture should be changeable except the way its circulated. And not only this but it should also be the pure manifestation of it, a monument to the concept.
And men built an ascending spiral towards heaven, a spiritual promenade towards the Divine, an endless walk to the fields of deification.
It allowed them to create space inside or light to come through, could be done with different materials or be held in diverse ways, but it will never loose its ability to express the Circulation.
Secondly, Light should be expressed. A volume that serves light, men should create. The formalization of illumination.
And they gave shape to a conical form, catcher and spreader of light, servant to the inexhaustible source, capturing its radiation and regulating it to suit the human eye.
The third exercise was the formalization of Space. The volumetric expression of the spatial quality.
The response was the inflated volume, the container of air within the minimal surface area, representation of the divine Star and endless Universe at a once, the formalization of infinitude, which is the pure space.
The expression of Material would be the fourth one. Formalize the substantial, the embodier of the tangible.
And men casted volume. The formalization of material would be the one that exploits the properties of it and is moulded by men hands. It should not be carved, they thought, as creation should not imply destruction or waste, but it will be given form from its mass as mankind was moulded from mud.
Fifth was the expression of Structure. Give form to the capability of standing, incarnate that, what we can feel but not see.
Then they did the arch, the perfect transmitter of vertical loads, the absorber of gravity, the perfect harmonizer of the Force that rules our equilibrium. The pure gravitational volume.
Last, She asked for Function to be expressed. Men failed. On and on. They could not find the expression of function. In the previous exercises they formalized the concepts at their pure state. Now they just could not find the pure function. Form cannot express mundane uses, product of men superficiality, of men need for the absurd. Those functions born from men self-generation of artificial necessities could never be expressed in pure form. They had to find the pure function, the inherent to self-existence, the one that embraces our intensest emotions, our lives. The House.
[1] Pablo Picasso
FORMALIZATION TAKES COMMAND.pdf
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"There are not concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies."[1]
Form forgotten
Form forborne
Form forbidden
Form foredoomed
Form forfended
Form forfeited
Form forlorn
Form looked at Architecture and saw the result of formlessness. She found no expression in Herself. Men had undervalued Her and, thus, disabled Her. She looked at men and asked for dignification and ennoblement, as She had been their means to physical existence, their former. They did not listen, so She punished them and deprived them from form. [...missing... explanation of a world deprived from form...]. Men asked for forgiveness and Form posed an exercise on formalization in which she would be more than dignified. Deified.
First She asked men to express Circulation. This should be its one and only trait, any other characteristic inherent to architecture should be changeable except the way its circulated. And not only this but it should also be the pure manifestation of it, a monument to the concept.
And men built an ascending spiral towards heaven, a spiritual promenade towards the Divine, an endless walk to the fields of deification.
It allowed them to create space inside or light to come through, could be done with different materials or be held in diverse ways, but it will never loose its ability to express the Circulation.
Secondly, Light should be expressed. A volume that serves light, men should create. The formalization of illumination.
And they gave shape to a conical form, catcher and spreader of light, servant to the inexhaustible source, capturing its radiation and regulating it to suit the human eye.
The third exercise was the formalization of Space. The volumetric expression of the spatial quality.
The response was the inflated volume, the container of air within the minimal surface area, representation of the divine Star and endless Universe at a once, the formalization of infinitude, which is the pure space.
The expression of Material would be the fourth one. Formalize the substantial, the embodier of the tangible.
And men casted volume. The formalization of material would be the one that exploits the properties of it and is moulded by men hands. It should not be carved, they thought, as creation should not imply destruction or waste, but it will be given form from its mass as mankind was moulded from mud.
Fifth was the expression of Structure. Give form to the capability of standing, incarnate that, what we can feel but not see.
Then they did the arch, the perfect transmitter of vertical loads, the absorber of gravity, the perfect harmonizer of the Force that rules our equilibrium. The pure gravitational volume.
Last, She asked for Function to be expressed. Men failed. On and on. They could not find the expression of function. In the previous exercises they formalized the concepts at their pure state. Now they just could not find the pure function. Form cannot express mundane uses, product of men superficiality, of men need for the absurd. Those functions born from men self-generation of artificial necessities could never be expressed in pure form. They had to find the pure function, the inherent to self-existence, the one that embraces our intensest emotions, our lives. The House.
[1] Pablo Picasso
FORMALIZATION TAKES COMMAND.pdf
here some of the work done before, very relevant still.
some general information on the 3 projects selected:
then an understanding of the comparison of their scale conditions:
finding the volume main characteristic:
volume conditions mix:
some general information on the 3 projects selected:
then an understanding of the comparison of their scale conditions:
understanding the formal reminiscences of the volumes:
finding the volume main characteristic:
volume conditions mix:
