Project 01 Poster

This poster serves to reinforce the inter-relationship (and ambiguity) between what is framed and what is sectioned. Although the instances of framing and sectioning may be obvious when first presented with the image, however the viewer may begin to question the elements that compose the frame and the section.

(in traditional architectural graphics, moments of framing and sectioning are often treated simultaneously. any orthographic cut is a section, but nevertheless that cut is often the frame for space or is framed by context.)

Project 01 Presentation Animation

The end animations for 1b and 1c rose from the concept of lofted sections. However, the body motion sequence (with the white lines) was animated after the conception of the lofted surfaced. The sequence conceptually offered the opportunity of a one-directional model, but the model in turn caused me to question the validity of the original intent, which in turn generated the motion sequence that was intended to support the model renders but instead it now offers a new opportunity for another exploration.

01c | Section by Transparent Overlap

Use of transparency to evaluate moments of section

01b | Framing Refinement

Edge as frame and edge as subject along a path

01c | "Sectional" Displacement

The focus of both lighting and framing are selective to articulate specific aspects of the model.

01b | Selective Framing

The model transitions between the frame and the framed.

Greg Lynn's "Folds, Bodies & Blobs"

The following is a response to selective articles from Greg Lynn's Folds, Bobies & Blobs.

"Probable Geometries: The Architecture of Writing in Bodies"
"Blob Tectonics, or why Tectonics is Square and Topology is Groovy"
"Forms of Expression: The Proto-Functional Potential of Diagrams in Architectural Design"

The most power statement here is:

"Until blob organizations develop beyond the proto-type of the shed, they will remain open to such accusations." (p 176)

(The specific accusations are not defined, but it is implied that blobs have not fully developed the potential of simultaneously developing both formal and programmatic aspects of architecture.)

The power of this statement is in its implication of immaturity in the practice of dynamically generated forms, their formal function and their internal use and the relationship thereof. This almost describe the technique as masonry construction, as we have begun with mud bricks but now we must improve upon the construction. And hopefully with the technological potential of today, we can reach "high gothic" in less than millenniums.

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Given the third article, "Forms of Expression", was published in 1998, I presume all projects by Ben Van Burkel was pre-1998 (or at least pre-UNStudio, since the firm was founded in 1998). Before 1998, Ben Van Burkel was affiliated with the firm of Van Berkel & Bos. Nevertheless, the founders of Van Burkel & Bos are also the founders of UNStudio.

"Series" and "pattern" are terms used to describe Van Burkel's conceptual process. The emphasis here is put on Van Burkel's process of design, and not so much the actual artifacts post production.

01b & 01c | Adjusting the Modeling

"Frame" the outlines of the key frames (of original sequences). Done to test communication between .FMZ and .FAC file types.

01b | Lighting Studies (3-in-1)

Studies of selective lighting of the model. Three animations are linked together in one movie.

01b | Non-continuous Surface

Lighting a non-continuous surface. Manipulating the sense of continuity with one light.