TS Outline
The first of many Technical Studies tutorials happened today with the other 5th years. After an abysmal presentation last Friday, with the research I've carried out on the plight of Los Angeles, I feel as though there's some hope for the future(!?).
TS Outline:
Inverted City Programme. Forum, Void & Filler. The three constituent parts of the Inverted City. For the moment at least, three primary areas for technical studies will be looked at:
Geometry: To create a 3dimensional weave; strands of forum, void and filler that negotiate and mediate between one another, bifurcating, expanding and deviating where necessary to accommodate variables such as forum size and use, movement speeds, light penetration, wind flow (stack effect) and structural configurations. L-systems, scripting and references such as Christopher Alexander will be used to ensure the geometry brings the city back to the scale of the human.
Materiality: Engineered Timber. In the pursuit to design a city that not only reflects the emerging knowledge economy as a sustainable economy, but also uses a material that is fully sustainable in itself. Engineered timber is becoming increasingly used in high rise building projects as a safe, structurally efficient, economically viable, rapidly assembled material. The fast growth of fur trees in California will feed the growth of the Inverted City.
Climatic: Conditions in California look bleak over the next few decades. Droughts will see the Los Angeles River dry. Forest fires will rage and temperatures will rise. The 5th Ecology of The Inverted City will become a refuge from the old city. A new city without distant infrastructure and the reliance on the automobile. A city brought back to the scale of the human, and a city that will become a sanctum from the change in climatic conditions. Water will be harvested from what remains of the Los Angeles River. The city will be self cooling through the void weaving itself through the city.
TS Outline:
Inverted City Programme. Forum, Void & Filler. The three constituent parts of the Inverted City. For the moment at least, three primary areas for technical studies will be looked at:
Geometry: To create a 3dimensional weave; strands of forum, void and filler that negotiate and mediate between one another, bifurcating, expanding and deviating where necessary to accommodate variables such as forum size and use, movement speeds, light penetration, wind flow (stack effect) and structural configurations. L-systems, scripting and references such as Christopher Alexander will be used to ensure the geometry brings the city back to the scale of the human.
Materiality: Engineered Timber. In the pursuit to design a city that not only reflects the emerging knowledge economy as a sustainable economy, but also uses a material that is fully sustainable in itself. Engineered timber is becoming increasingly used in high rise building projects as a safe, structurally efficient, economically viable, rapidly assembled material. The fast growth of fur trees in California will feed the growth of the Inverted City.
Climatic: Conditions in California look bleak over the next few decades. Droughts will see the Los Angeles River dry. Forest fires will rage and temperatures will rise. The 5th Ecology of The Inverted City will become a refuge from the old city. A new city without distant infrastructure and the reliance on the automobile. A city brought back to the scale of the human, and a city that will become a sanctum from the change in climatic conditions. Water will be harvested from what remains of the Los Angeles River. The city will be self cooling through the void weaving itself through the city.
Nice and clear, well done. Can you make sure you write asap the table of contents (as precise as possible) with also the case studies you are planning to research? In your TS you have few topics: geometry, materiality and climatic, and it would be good to start structure them in a clear order. Try to make the table of contents as much specific that you can, so you don't get lost in many things.