tank farm one

test of the flywheel system

these are the basic numbers on the hubs to get an idea of overall distribution. The entire program would fit if all 35 hubs were filled solid with program.... It also shows the four hub types

this is a programmatic diagram
this is a massing diagram picking up from a scheme by Jessica and Ed where the west side of the site shows solids in water and the east side of the site shows voids carved out of poche. Also included is the primary circulation route that links the site together... five figures dominate the setting: one flower, two boomerangs [one small, one large], a flywheel and a single dot...

possible flywheel organization

this diagram juxtaposes the composition and the aggregate structure from which it was made... aggregate infrastructure beneath a compositional superstructure...

the ultimate intention is not to make the grid illegible in the final composition, but to simultaneously aggregate and compose relative to the needs of each program area. The example above is apparently compositional with very little indication of the 50 meter grid which constitutes its aggregate structure....

the circles represent collective programs of any size while the stretchy space between supports these collective spaces with ancillary facilities when needed. When not needed, and collective areas support themselves, no bands occur. Alternately, the stretchy space can be cleared out for a larger collective space. In their capacity as formal theatre spaces, the single center space functions as an arena stage while the combined centers function as a proscenium theatre.... The grid is spaced at approximately 50 meters...

OMA: GENOA PORT, ITALY, GENOA, 1997

The port of Genoa is the geophysical condition, beautifully located on the slopes of the coastal mountains the city overlooks the Mare Ligure and the harbour. There the steep seashore forces the city and the harbour to coexist on the same stretch of coast. Result is the historical city in front of an ever modernising harbour: nostalgia facing the pure contemporary condition. So we realised that no conventional waterfront rehabilitation could be the answer.

As by magic the economic growth of South East Asia has forced the re-emergence of Genoa as an important European harbour. This is the incentive for a drastic change in the scope and the ambition. Our plan proposes an aggressive welcome to the new condition: the further improvement of the harbour, preparing quays for more berth and the newest logistics for ships, cranes, trains and lorries. At the same time our plan proposes to reclaim Genoa’s relationship with the seaboard.

After the outward expansion of the post war era Genoa is forced to expand and improve on actually occupied territory. Genoa has the chance - almost non existent in Italy - to restructure an area central in the city, important to both civic life and economic activity.

We propose a combination of manipulations; efficient infrastructure and logistics restructure a former infrastructure clot, freeing land for new program. Mutual exchange of territory between city and harbour improve conditions for development. The introduction of port related manufacturing and assemblage allows the city to generate income from the passing flow of commodities between sea and hinterland.

OMA, Hafencity Hamburg

Same object rotated... pixelated void becomes theater in vertical and atrium in horizontal 

Hollow Shape

"While trying to save shape for (modernist) art, Michael Fried nevertheless reveals that shape is generally involved with the contextual and situational. In his critique of minimalism he observes that its investment in shape produces a pervasive effect of "hollowness." -Somol (see more in link below)

Somol, 12 Reasons to Get Into Shape

 “The shape is the object: at any rate, what secures the wholeness of the object is the singleness of the shape. It is, I believe, this emphasis on shape that accounts for the impression, which numerous critics have mentioned that Judd’s and Morris’s pieces are hollow.” - Fried (see more in link below)

Fried, Art and Objecthood

cypher distributed

possible sectional distribution of the cypher in packed box.....

copy/translate/scale, search space

The above sketch is a "search space" which constitutes an "optimization table" which is generated by a simple copy/translate/scale algorithm. An optimization process selects a single instance which satisfies, not a single need, but all the needs of a programmatically divergent project. As a one size fits all proposition, optimization is the opposite of customization.

Search space is similar to typology in that it is produced by an inherent formal logic. Said another way, form follows form. Search Space is different from typology in that it multiplies possibilities rather than reducing them down to a platonic essence.

The selected instance [orange circle] is deployed in http://rsataiwan.blogspot.com/2010/04/cypher.html

rotate/rotate/rotate, OMA, Prada Transformer

OMA,Prada Transformer, 2008. The Transformer actually rotates to accomodate 4 different functions in different orientations... There is no copying or translation in the transformer, only a never-ending rotation of a single [incoherent] object.

copy/translate/rotate, Robert Morris, 3 L-Beams

3 L-Beams, Robert Morris, 1965

copy/translate, Michael Heizer, "Adjacent, Against, Upon"

the didactic project of minimalist art....

copy/translate/rotate/scale

A single shape is deployed in three orientations [right-side up, vertical, upside down], with three relationships to the ground plane [below, above, within], and with three different scales [S,M,L]. These variables [12 state, 3 scales] satisfy all diverse programmatic requirements with a single, scalable, highly refined specification......

With each deployment of the unit, the project increases in speed and decreases in cost.

copy/translate/scale, SANAA, New Museum

copy/translate/scale.... SANAA, New Museum..five boxes stacked above a void all issue from a simple rectangle that is copied and then is translated and scaled vertically.

copy/translate/rotate [x,y], Mies, 860-880 Lakeshore Drive

860-880 Lakeshore Drive,1951. Mies created the original double state object — copy/translate/rotate... he also gave copying an aura

copy/translate/rotate [x,z, ], OMA, Ascot Residence

copy/translate/rotate... OMA, Ascot Residence, 2003. Duplication is at work in a series of OMA projects that flip an identical object from horizontal to vertical in order to produce an emphatic unity in otherwise opposing states... The dual state projects such as the Ascot House and the Hamburg eventually gave rise to the Prada Transformer which is a single object that rotates to accomodate 4 different functions in 4 distinct orientations...

copy/translate/scale/rotate, REX, Vakko Fashion Center

copy/translate/scale/rotate.... standardized steel sections in REX vakko... In general, this project is all about speedy construction... even to the extent that it was based on another office project. The five boxes in the center are all copies with the same length, different depth, to facilitate steel fabrication.....

http://archinect.com/features/article_print.php?id=97579_0_23_0_M