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 Studio 6 Advanced Architecture StudioInstructor:
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Visual Constructions- Surface Versus Volume
Historically, constructions have been in relation to space and volume, existing primarily in our physical environment. Today the visual and virtual environment associated with it seem to have become as/or more important than the physical presence. The invention of the large vertical tower is clearly an optimization of the land use. Nevertheless, the visual and iconic aspect of the vertical fa?ade has become the essential component of almost all skyscrapers. Skyscrapers today could be argued to be build more for their visual, virtual and symbolic presence. When the World Trade Center was destroyed, the physical destruction was tremendous, but the most shocking aspect was the destruction of the skyline, of a symbol, of an image. How is the visual/virtual environment modifying our design strategies? How much has the surface/visual presence taken over the haptic, spatial and volumetric component of an architectural presence.
The studio proposal researched the transformation from a space constituted as a volume to a space emerging from an accumulation of surfaces - sometimes called hypersurface and digitally animated surfaces. The study of surfaces related to its potential volume include topological surfaces, knotting and folding. The studio - using the WTC former site - will develop visual strategies to define new materializations of vertical fa?ade/visual surfaces - in the process of a materialization of a representation to optimize or resist its presence as a virtual/visual construction. In parallel, a recent historical analysis of the Skyscraper in relation to its materialization as a "surface/image presence" versus its "volumetric necessities" were developed.
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John Jones
Tae Y. Kim
Casper Mork-Ulnes
Dae Park
Hohyun Park
Brandon Walt
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