1.2 Diagramming: Abstraction – Time-Based Systems
Time. While time in architecture may seem to follow a deep fundamental understanding of diagramming, analog parametrics and digital parametrics, time affects the critical aspect of variation in a systems understanding of unit , organization and variation.
How do we draw time? How can our understandings of time be used as a design tool?
The first day of class we spoke about how design communication can empower architects and interior architects to build architecture that responds to the values of the people it serves over time. We will consider James Corner and Stan Allen’s ideas for an adaptive system (Not Unlike Life Itself) and Peter Schwartz’s idea of scenario planning (The Art of the Long View). An including time in drawing may be seen in James Corner’s planting calender (figure 1) that relates material, planometric location and time.