Aug 15, 10:55 pm
STUDIO WORK: SPRING 2005
Studio Agenda
Contemporary architectural discourse has recently renewed its interest in issues of science and materiality. If the 20th century was characterized by the art of technology, the 21st century began with the technology of art. Technology is inextricably linked to the contemporary condition, which advances in parallel with digital media. This new state is shifting the formal attributes of architecture and is generating a new formal language. The most dramatic changes have been taking place in the technology of simulation, visualization and fabrication of space. The focus of the studio is twofold: the study of a particular notion of syntactic and morphological language (typology), and the investigation of geometric configurations (topology). By adopting contemporary form-making practices, a design process was established in the studio such as modeling in physical and digital form, which led to the design of a Science Institute / Urban Science Park, in Dubai. Within this framework, individual programs have been developed to contain inherent dualities: a “scientific” space on one hand and on the other a public or a communal space component. The intention is to achieve an assemblage of linked effects: fusion and interaction. By negotiating between two territories and conditions, which are at times incompatible but always dynamic, a formal reciprocity is to be developed: shared boundaries and overlapped zones that produce unanticipated interpretations, which are ambivalent, reciprocal and ambiguous. Architecture must be projective; it must point to the emergence of new arrangements and to the construction of new institutional forms. The institute will also have a catalyst impact on the social and cultural condition of Dubai.
Studio instructor: George Katodrytis
(image by Tamer)
Contemporary architectural discourse has recently renewed its interest in issues of science and materiality. If the 20th century was characterized by the art of technology, the 21st century began with the technology of art. Technology is inextricably linked to the contemporary condition, which advances in parallel with digital media. This new state is shifting the formal attributes of architecture and is generating a new formal language. The most dramatic changes have been taking place in the technology of simulation, visualization and fabrication of space. The focus of the studio is twofold: the study of a particular notion of syntactic and morphological language (typology), and the investigation of geometric configurations (topology). By adopting contemporary form-making practices, a design process was established in the studio such as modeling in physical and digital form, which led to the design of a Science Institute / Urban Science Park, in Dubai. Within this framework, individual programs have been developed to contain inherent dualities: a “scientific” space on one hand and on the other a public or a communal space component. The intention is to achieve an assemblage of linked effects: fusion and interaction. By negotiating between two territories and conditions, which are at times incompatible but always dynamic, a formal reciprocity is to be developed: shared boundaries and overlapped zones that produce unanticipated interpretations, which are ambivalent, reciprocal and ambiguous. Architecture must be projective; it must point to the emergence of new arrangements and to the construction of new institutional forms. The institute will also have a catalyst impact on the social and cultural condition of Dubai.
Studio instructor: George Katodrytis
(image by Tamer)
Filed under: TEACHING+ Texts-PROCESS-and-FORM
beautiful site
this set of projects reflect the sophisticated nature of “advanced architecture” as the course title suggests. later projects, fall 2005, seems to be replicas of older ones. i am wondering if new students are strongly influenced by these images and start getting preset ideas of how their outcome will look like way early in the semester !