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Diagram

My program is concerned with food and it will be a combine space with a gourmet shop, restaurant and cooking studio. So I made my diagram with a recipe. I chose a Cuban Chinese recipe because I am interested in mixed culture especially combined with different characters like western and eastern. This is an ingredient part of the recipe.

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Cuban Chinese Roast Loin of Pork
c.1997, M.S. Milliken & S. Feniger, all rights reserved

4 to 5 pound boneless pork loin, trimmed

1 bottle beer
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

1/4 cup orange juice

1/4 cup honey

3 tablespoons soy sauce

3 tablespoons sherry

2 tablespoons hoisin sauce

1/4 cup cooked back beans, mashed with a fork

2 tablespoons FiveSpice powder

4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

4 mandarin oranges or tangerines, peel and pith removed and cut into supremes

1/2 small bunch watercress, coarse stems removed

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I paid my attention to ingredients because I could find mixed culture in here. I classifid each ingredients. Where it came from. The center of black line means nutral, left part contains Chinese ingredients and right part includes Cuban ingredients. Moreover, each color means its own color of ingredients.

Suspension

I found these images of nests and hives and thought they related to my first diagram. I am thinking about using this idea in my program, perhaps to allow a different vantage of the Highline below.

James Turrell

This is the "James Turrell's Meeting" - a long-term installation at P.S.1.
I could remember this after the class. anyway, this exhibition focuses on perceptions of light.
There is a room and just rectangular holes cut into the ceiling exposing the open sky, but, by changing the sky light and color, the space creates beautiful 'lights' quality'.

Chimpanzee Nest

Apparantly chimps build nests in the canopies of trees. I did not know this. The above photo is of a chimp nest in the Kanyanchu Rainforest in Uganda.

During her observations of chimpanzees in the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, Jane Goodall discovered that each individual chimpanzee builds a fresh sleeping nest every night at dusk. Normally, this work takes no more than 3-5 minutes. The animal chooses a firm foundation in the crown of the tree, such as an upright fork or two horizontal branches. Then he reaches out and bends over smaller branches onto this foundation, keeping each one in place with his feet. Finally he tucks in the little leafy twigs growing around the rim of the nest and lies down, pressing the whole cushion down with his body. In some nests, she found evidence of complicated interweaving of branches notwithstanding the speed with which they were constructed.

Ha Jung, I thought about your monkey zoo when I read this. Also, the way you were peeling and overlapping pieces of your model to create spaces seems similar to this idea of nest building...

I myself would like to learn more about other instances where a living creature uses its own weight to inform the architecture. Like with my model, since I did not have string running the both ways across the volume, it leaned to one side. But once human force pulled the strings in opposite directions, it stood straight. What if dynamic forces altered architecture? Or architecture responded to varying conditions such as physical surroundings or human forces? Where can I see an example of that? I once saw a conceptual model of a structure built out of strips of material that hung off the edge of the land into the water. At high tide, the strips were pushed upwards into an arc and created a space below. At low tide, the strips descended with the water and laid flat. This meant that the space could only be occupied at high tide. Or another thing I think of is when Bill Gates designed his home so that when someone entered the room, the lights/temperature/music etc. changed depending on their personal tastes. But I am more interested in architecture that adapts to human or natural conditions as opposed to microchips and software.

Valleaceron Chapel

Jeong,

This chapel resembles the one of the individual pieces of your model.

strandbeest.

The 'responsive kinetic architecture' post reminded me of Theo Jansen's animal-machines: PVC/cable ties/tape creatures that crawl on wet sand, propelled by the wind. Must watch the short quicktime films.



http://www.strandbeestmovie.com/

did you ever read this?

post your diagrams and write about them...ask questions about the model if you need to ...it should be diagrammatic...yet spatial

Responsive Kinetic Architecture

Some sources about Responsive Kinetic Architecture that I tought could be helpful to young ji.

HUGGY WALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deLMg9JOMKc


EAMEXJapanese EAP company
http://www.thelivingnewyork.com/lab/kurage.wmv
http://www.eamex.co.jp/index_e.html

AETHER ARCHITECTURE
http://www.aether.hu/

CASE STUDIES IN KINETIC ARCHITECTUREby MIT KDG
http://kdg.mit.edu/Matrix/matrix.html

MICHAEL A. FOX ROBOTECTURE
http://robotecture.com/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=40

INTERACTIVEARCHITECTURE.ORG
http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/

HYPERBODY RESEARCH GROUP AT TU DELFT Directed by Kas Oosterhuis
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=f878960b-0ab5-4a32-bbe6-4e5e7e903887&lang=nl

MIT RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS GROUP
http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/

OMNIVISU
http://www.designberuehrtherz.de/projects.php?stud=19&proj=3&img=1&lang=de

STREAMSIDE DAY FOLLIESby Pierre Huyghe
http://www.stage-directions.com/articles/dia.shtml

CHRISTIAN MOELLER"A Time and Place" website
http://www.christian-moeller.com/

507 MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS
http://www.amazon.com/507-Mechanical-Movements-Mechanisms-Devices/dp/0486443604/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_1_img/104-3605674-6315103

AMBIENT DEVICES
http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/index.html

FREE-ENERGY WATCHER DON
http://www.theverylastpageoftheinternet.com/

POWERPAPER
http://www.powerpaper.com/


PARTY WALLBY nARCHITECTS
http://www.narchitects.com/frameset-party%20wall.htm

More at:
LIVING ARCHITECTURE AT COLUMBIA AND PRATT
http://lasp06c.blogspot.com/
http://lafa06c.blogspot.com/
http://lasp07c.blogspot.com/
http://lasp06p.blogspot.com/
http://lafa06p.blogspot.com/
http://lasp07p.blogspot.com/

Site

I think I will use the W Hotel Union Square as a case study for my project, but I'd like to propose this as my site. It is one (if not the only) building that straddles the Highline and has infinite possibilities. What do you think?

Modernist in Loincloth and Feathers

Osanbashi international passenger terminal

penelope

This is international passenger terminal in Japen. I don't know about concept of this design, but it's shape is really amaging. Also here is website of this terminal. http://www.osanbashi.com/index.html

It is all written in japaness but you can see pictures. :)

blogs

i have asked my arch thesis class to join our blog (and vice versa)...please do so...we can all get alot from each other...

Biomimetic Architecture

Termite Mound Cross Sections

The Eastgate Centre and a Termite Mound
The passive cooling system at Eastgate Centre

This building is the Eastgate Center, a highrise in Zimbabwe. It employs a passive cooling system that was inspired by the local termite mounds. I was reading about termite mounds in Animal Architecture by Karl von Frisch. The termites cool their mounds by way of ducts and chambers. The walls are porous and allow carbon dioxide to escape and oxygen to come in. The air is cooled during its passage through ridges towards the cellar by way of wide ducts. From there it returns to the nest replacing the rising warm air.

Spider Web

I was thinking about my hanging diagram and also about how most animals build homes for function, not beauty (with the exception of the Bower Bird). But the functional home ultimately embodies an inherent beauty which is something I would like to emulate. Also, the nests, burrows and webs these animals build are generally a result of a focused, methodical process of repition and often built with materials that are weak as individuals but very strong once they are employed in the building process. For example, this spider web. It reminds me of my menu diagram and also how the laborious process for creating a home and a place to catch food can be so beautiful.

The Living Glass

Young Ji,

I did a 6-week summer session at Columbia's School of Architecture a couple of summers ago, and one of my critics (David Benjamin) focused his thesis research on a "breathing wall." You can find out more info about it at his website www.thelivingnewyork.com. Also, here is an article about some of his interactive architecture...http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=2215

diagrams

post your diagrams and write about them...
ask questions about the model if you need to ...
it should be diagrammatic...yet spatial

post

we need to keep of this practice of posting...
i expect something posted from each of you by friday if not earlier...
also...my architecture thesis students will have some reviews on thursday as we didnt get thru the whole class on monday...
you are welcome to stop by on thursday from 2-4...we will be in Higgins hall north in room 209...
could be helpful if oyu have time...
otherwise i will invite you to our next review...this one is largely complete (it is a class of 15)

This is ths story why I want to make Gallery in chelsea.

Last month, One artist came from Korea with Dream. This is the most well known city for artist, so he expected lots audiances and convieniences. He planed performance in his openning day. He wanted to show what is defferences his artwork with others. But his hotel was so far from the gallery, it was not easy to carry all stuff for the performance.

The gallery was not big enough to hang his huge artworks. Audiances were just few because of no advertisement and their location. The gallery is located in midtown. He went back to his country with big disappoitment. Maybe this is the reality. Sometimes to artist, emotion is verey important even anger. they could buster his work. But not disappointment. Oh, no!! This is the one of his paintings.

moving moving

Penelope this is simiar with what I want to do. This is moving wall response from circumstance such as people's movement and sound.

The Aegis Hyposurface is a dECOi project, designed principally by Mark Goulthorpe and the dECOi office with a large multi-disciplinary team of architects, engineers, mathematicians and computer programmers, among others. This team included a Professor Mark Burry, who was working at Deakin University at the time, along with various others from Deakin, including Professor Saeid Navahandi and Dr Abbas Kouzani. Please see below for a full list of the members of the project team. This project was developed for a competition for an interactive art-work for the foyer of The Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre. The piece is a facetted metallic surface that has potential to deform physically in response to electronic stimuli from the environment (movement, sound, light,etc). Driven by a bed of 896 pneumatic pistons, the dynamic 'terrains' are generated as real-time calculations. The piece marks the transition from autoplastic (determinate) to alloplastic (interactive, indeterminate) space, a new species of reciprocal architecture.

http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Aegis_Hyposurface.php