Lecture 01: Drawing Systems

 

 

figure 1, “A Bird Ballet,” by Neels CASTILLON, more

figure 2 (jump to 4:21m), “Baraka” by Ron Fricke 1993, more info

Figure 3, “Flight Patterns,” by Aaron Koblin

1. http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/index.html
2. Mapping data to visualize emergence of patterns.
3. Discovery through mapping of unit to whole.
4. Data visualization.

2020 (today)

2025 (UO graduation)

2035 (Design leadership)

1999/2000…. (Philip at UVa, 94-97 all hand media / Columbia GSAPP, 00-02 paperless studios)

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COURSE OVERVIEW

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I. Diagramming: Abstraction + Synthesis

II. Analog Parametric Design

III. Digital Parametric Design

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1.1  /// Diagramming

1.2 /// Time-based Diagrams

1.3 /// Generative Diagrams + Precedent

2.1  /// 2D Tiling

2.2  /// 3D Tiling

 

2.3  /// Lighting and Mapping

 

3.1  /// Parametric Material Experience

2  /// Final Presentation

3.3  Media Event 1:1 Mockup Digital Fabrication

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ABSTRACTION

Abstraction + Synthesis

Abstraction

1. What is abstraction?
2. What is the purpose of abstraction?

Abstraction / Representation

1. What is the difference between abstraction and representation?
2. What is the difference between diagrammatic and representational?

figure: Napoleon’s March to Moscow, Charles Joseph Minard (1790-1870), Paris, 20 November 1869

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/229-vital-statistics-of-a-deadly-campaign-the-minard-map

It integrates 6 types of data:

• Geographic features
• Path of travel
• Invasion and retreat in color
• Number of troops in width
• Temperature
• Time

• Geography: rivers, cities and battles are named and placed according to their occurrence on a regular map.

• The army’s course: the path’s flow follows the way in and out that Napoleon followed.

• The army’s direction: indicated by the colour of the path, gold leading into Russia, black leading out of it.

• The number of soldiers remaining: the path gets successively narrower, a plain reminder of the campaigns human toll, as each millimetre represents 10.000 men.

• Temperature: the freezing cold of the Russian winter on the return trip is indicated at the bottom, in the republican measurement of degrees of réaumur (water freezes at 0° réaumur, boils at 80° réaumur).

• Time: in relation to the temperature indicated at the bottom, from right to left, starting 24 October (pluie, i.e. ‘rain’) to 7 December (-27°)

 

 

What data is embedded in the diagram? Is it abstract, diagrammatic, representational?

The individual unit actually has very little meaning by itself because it doesn’t lend itself to any greater understanding that the synthesis of units acting together.

figure x, “Pithoprakta” by Iannis Xenakis, http://www.inderscience.com/jdr/backfiles/articles/issue2004.02/Art2.html

Big Data

1. Data driven design decisions
2. Role of data in discovery of design strategies
3. Data sources

  

figure x, Visual Complexity,  Manuel Lima, great repository for complex diagrams based on data, also http://www.fundacionpalazuelo.com/

figure. Mapping of Paris

The unit is individuals taking photographs and their geolocation, whole is the delineation of tourist photos and versus non-tourist photos

 

 

Suspended Particles and Urban Design Criteria, Speranza-Viader, Urban Design and Computing

 

 

 

Natural Systems

1. Drawing Water
2. http://sansumbrella.com/works/2011/drawing-water/
3. Wind Animation
4. http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

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System  = Unit + Organization / External Force

1. Relationship of unit to whole
2. Impact of external force has on unit variation and system

figure, Echelman Sculpture Unit and Force Diagram

1. Unit – diamond
2. Whole – sculpture

figure, “Her Secret is Patience” by Janet Echelman, Philip Speranza and Buro Happold (Ian Keough, Dynamo developer for Revit) et al

figure, “Sky Garden” by Janet Echelman, Philip Speranza and Buro Happold, Richmond-Vancouver 2010 Olympic Oval

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GEs Courtney Sigloh and Cary Chu

Labs with lab notes page tab

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Exercise 01

figure, “Sendai Media Center,”  Toyo Ito, 

 

 

Figure, Agnes Denes (images from Shed exhibit, NYC)

figure,  Peter Eisenman

figure, Stan Allen

figure, Iannis Xenakis

1. http://www.iannis-xenakis.org/xen/
2. http://people.mills.edu/toda/chance/noframes.html
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWdQBblec0M&list=PLFy0d5qEa3gj1_lNQzVFeL9cHjjCihyT3

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Measured Lines

Use Rhino to carefully control the measurement of lines and their arrangement in space.

Use Illustrator to control line weight, line type and other design communication characteristics.

Diagram, by Stan Allen

Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos

admire the lines…

Enric’s wiki here.  A google search will also provide some great images for exploration especially now as we explored measured drawing. EMBT is the current office headed by his wife Benedetta Tagliabue.

Click here for a good interview with Alejandro Zaera.

Additional article on Miralles and lines

 

figure x, Plaza de Bergonya, by Carme Pinos

figure x, Parti Diagrams, by Carme Pinos Estudio

    

figures x, Mercat de Santa Caterina by Enric Miralles and Benetta Tagliabue, EMBT, Barcelona, Catalunya

figure X, Gas Natural by Enric Miralles and Benetta Tagliabue, EMBT, Barcelona, Catalunya

 

figure X, Palafolls Public Libary, by EMBT

figure x, Piso en Mercador, by Enric Miralles, Barcelona, Catalunya

figures X, Archery Range for the 1992 Olympic Games, Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos.

The elegant single-line drawings of the section are of particular value.  Lines!