PROJECTS REVIEW 2008
Intermediate 8 focuses on the rationalisation of logical geometry through the use of computational techniques as demonstrated in architectural space. Development of designed space was achieved with the management of digital tools and their production counterparts, each establishing a pipeline encompassing logic, form, sensibility of space, visualisation and methods of production. Faced with the excess of data that is an unintentional by-product of existing digital tools, it was the unit’s ambition to establish a workflow that could manage information for its directed integration into architecture.
Beginning the year with studies on the development of organisational networks, students gained an ability to author customised logic through geometry. Natural systems involving subdivision, growth and anomaly were studied as the basis for designing a template of implied infrastructure on which to develop the year-long project, a central train station. A strict use of digital modelling, scripting and mapping techniques governed methods of research.
In the absence of a given context, students were responsible for generating their built environments within a wholly integrated dialogue between object and situation. The aim of the year was to develop a feasible design proposal for a train station that would act as a hub for a range of interrelated functions and services as determined by its environment. Visits to train stations across Europe exposed the unit was to the attributes embodied in a range of scales and performance requirements.
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Credits
Unit staff
Eugene Han, Chris Yoo
Students
Kim Diego Azevedo, Michal Ciomek, Johnny Gao, Carlos Hernandez Matos, Sung Kwon Jung, Jin Kim, Sang Eun Kim, Lara Lesmes, Lingyun Tao, Wai Fung Tsui, Adrian Tung, David Wolthers
Intermediate 8
David Wolthers
Diagram of constructed infrastructure based on rules of subdivision influenced by organisational rules in leaf venation
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David Wolthers
Structural diagram of individual base component Type A, which would allow for a wide variety of articulation and variation through integration of non-similar building elements.
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Carlos Hernandez Matos
Aerial rendering of constructed infrastructure organised about a central plaza, as a reprocessing of Mexico CityAerial rendering of constructed infrastructure organised about a central plaza, as a reprocessing of Mexico City
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Kim Diego Azevedo
Diagram of woven structures about a common spiral organisation, serving as the primary conceptual framework for the proposed building.
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Michal Ciomek
Aerial rendering of proposed train station with associated context, developed through an articulation of curvature-derived units along a linear axis.
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Michal Ciomek
Rendering of an isolated wing of the proposed train station, illustrating variation of generated unit spaces from a common axis.
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Adrian Tung
Elevation and section of finalised building proposal illustrating articulation of space and structure through vertical articulation.
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Adrian Tung
Elevation and section of finalised building proposal illustrating articulation of space and structure through vertical articulation.
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Carlos Hernandez Matos
Conceptual structural model of programmatic concentration within the proposed train station, illustrating a hierarchy of structural elements around a global point of focus.Visit Projects Review microsite »