From Control to Design

by Meredith, Michael

• ISBN13: 9788496540798
• ISBN10: 8496540790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-30
• Publisher: Actar

Summary

"This book presents six independent practices that explore current applications of parametric and algorithmic design techniques in architectural production. If the first generation of digital modeling programs allowed designers to conceive new forms and design processes, a new breed of digital techniques is today being discussed for their ability to allow these forms, once conceived, to be controlled and realized. The question today is how these techniques affect architectural practice. What is their future, and what potentials do they offer to the discipline?"--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Michael Meredith	p. 4
Intro	p. 5
Essay: Never enough (transform, repeat ad nausea)	p. 6
Puppet Theater	p. 10
PS1 Competition	p. 18
Ballroom Drive-In	p. 26
AGU, ARUP	p. 34
Manifesto: Advanced Geometry Unit at Amp	p. 35
Geometric Algorithm / Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002	p. 36
Reciprocity, Hierarchy and Discreteness Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005	p. 44
Alishan Tourist Routes	p. 50
Taichung Metropolitan Opera House	p. 54
Spacestacion Diary, Blind Light	p. 60
Mutsuro Sasaki	p. 68
Intro: Morphogenesis of Flux Structure	p. 68
0.0 Preface: Sendai Mediatheque project	p. 70
1.0 Sensitivity Analysis method	p. 72
1.1 Kitagata Community Centre	p. 74
1.2 The Island City Central Park Gringrin, Fukuoka	p. 76
1.3 Extended Evolutionary Structure Optimization method Kakamigahara Crematorium with Toyo Ito	p. 90
2.1 Florence New Station competition proposal	p. 100
2.2 Qatar Education City, Convention Centre	p. 108
p.art at Adams Kara Taylor	p. 116
Intro	p. 117
Open systems: Approaching Novel Parametric Domains	p. 118
BP Sunbury	p. 122
Branching system	p. 124
Open System: branching structures	p. 126
Barnsley Market Roof	p. 128
SIMPLEXITY	p. 130
The REN Building for Shanghai World Expo 2010	p. 144
Digital Efficiency vs. Physical Necessity	p. 150
Workshops at Bauhaus and ITU (AA)	p. 152
Essay: Analysis Modelling- Investigating the Digital Material	p. 158
designtoproduction	p. 160
Essay: The Whole and its Parts	p. 161
Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern	p. 164
Peek&Cloppenburg Weltstadthaus	p. 165
Mercedes-Benz Museum	p. 168
Groningen Stadsbalkon	p. 172
Swissbau Pavilion	p. 174
Inventioneering Architecture, Travelling Exhibition	p. 176
Hungerburg Funicular	p. 180
Libeskind's Futuropolis	p. 186
ZipShape	p. 190
Aranda/Lasch	p. 194
Intro: What is parametric to us?	p. 195
Out of Order	p. 196
The Year 1774	p. 202
Color Shift	p. 206
A conversation between Sanford Kwinter and Jason Payne	p. 218
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