IaaC Lecture Series_Apr 06 < Angel Beccassino

The Necessity of What is Obviously is Not Necessary
Angel Beccassino
Journalist and Photographer

A journalist and photographer that works creating arguments and eventual situations as a member of the Center of Possibilities and other think tanks in Latin America. A man with great talent, be it in advertising as well as in poetry, and with the handling of images as well as sounds. Each word he writes has cadence, each image is a poem. Whatever Angel does has a “hook” that captivates anyone.

He also shoots artistic videos as well as publish beautiful profound books. A tireless traveler, he has gone around the world as if it were a trip to a soccer field. Angel was born in Argentina and now lives in Colombia. He always surprises people with his works because of their originality and simplicity. Angel Becassino was born in Buenos Aires in 1948.  He has been the creative director of  important publicity agencies in his native country of Argentina and in different Latin-American cities such as Mexico and Bogota.

In the nineties he worked in public management communication, where he developed successful diffusion strategies for governmental agencies and private enterprises.  As a journalist he worked as a Latin American graphic media correspondent covering the war in Lebanon, armed conflicts in Colombia, and other events in Asia and Europe.

He has authored books in photography, urbanism and journalism and was the second place recipient of the Emece Novel Prize (Argentina.  1970).  Within the artistic field he has had gallery installations and performances in New York, Tokyo, Rio of Janeiro, Berlin, among others cities.  At present he consults in electoral strategies, management marketing and crisis management for the Colombian, Venezuelan, Peruvian and Ecuadorian government.

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ASSIGNMENT I-II Solar Enviromental-Performatine (ARDUINO +)

A traves de este conjunto de ejemplos como idea de partida se intenta crear un filtro “vivo” interior-exterior

Se opto por la compra de un conjunto de lentes antiguas para extraer el mecanismo perfecto, ya que se trata de un sistema muy muy preciso y dificil de emular. esto me hizo decidirme por el metal ya que necesitaba rigidez y cierta densidad. el metal finalmente fue el acero INIOX pulido ya que asi este mecaismo refleja el exterior y se camufla con el propio cielo reflejando al mismo tiempo la luz como un espejo.

Mas adelante se hizo el patron perfecto de corte, patron que dio como resusltado una gran cantidad de piezas la menor de menos de un milimetro que despues se ensamblaron para crear este patron de ventana con distintos tamaños, a escala para que se pudieran ensamblar LIBREMENTE i crear un patron plano sin huecos por tanto la mejor geometria fue el cuadrado con el obturador en su interior como circumferencia circumscrita…

Despiece de una sola de las piezas

Primeros patrones y mecanismo final

DEFINICION

esta definicion lo que me permitio es averiguar si las distintas cuchillas se ensamblavan perfectamente y creaban un mecanismo que realmente se cerrara con la geometria que se habia copiado de los obturadres antiguos.

En este pasword fotografico se muestra que el mecanismo acaba fucionando a la perfecion cerrando-y-abreiendo  sin ningun problema.

Forma final fijada con acrilico para que el material se aprecie y se puedan fijar las distintas partes

Exteriores (reflejo-funcion-proyeccion)

A traves del microcontrolador Arduino podemos conectar un conjunto de motores i sensores de luz que reaccionan con el hambiente i se programa de manera que los 2shutters2 se cierren al recibir luz, por tanto los light sensors al recibir luz dejan pasar energia energia que se transforma en orden a traves del codigo orden cierra mas luz mas energia cierre del todo.

Idea de patron final de gran complejidad a modo de organismo-ARTIFICIAL

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The Future of Suburbs – analysis (1)

Suburbs can be divided into three distinct areas: Green Pockets, Roads/Infrastructure, and Built Residential.

Ideas to pursue:

- Green pockets currently divided up into small private backyards will be joined and converted into communal green pockets that will serve as public recreational parks and, where possible, local farm land where some of the food for the community will be grown.

- Roads/infrastructure area currently takes up too much space of the site. Bike paths will be created in some of the smaller roads, contributing to the overall green area. Public transit (trains) systems will be implemented on the major roads, operating mostly to and from the Downtown and the areas of suburbs that are even further away

- Built residential area will highly densified, with the idea of keeping as much as possible of the existing structure, from an environmental point of view (construction uses up a lot of energy), an economical perspective ( demolishing costs money already), and a historical mind set (it will stimulate a local identity and remind the population of their past, while at the same time creating a new, unique typology)

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IaaC Lecture Series_Mar 26 < Sean Hanna

Architectural Complexity and Thinking Machines

Sean Hanna

Co-Director of the Bartlett Masters in Adaptive Architecture and Computation

Sean Hanna is an RCUK Academic Fellow in Space and Adaptive Architectures at the Bartlett, UCL, where he co-directs the masters courses in Adaptive Architecture and Computation. His research covers computational methods for dealing with complex systems in design and the built environment, particularly involving computation and machine intelligence, and his publications address the fields of artificial intelligence, collaborative creativity and the design process, and the optimisation of structures and materials.
Prior to joining UCL he practiced architecture and design, and maintains research links including collaboration with Foster + Partners and Antony Gormley. He is a member of the advisory committee of Space Syntax Limited and Complex Matters Limited, a member of the editorial boards of AI EDAM and the Journal of Engineering Design, and is currently Investigator at UCL on several research projects on digital design and fabrication technologies, and the modelling of complex global dynamics and their effect on cities.

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30ha Site. trial/error

We took the initial diagrams and looked into the processes of turning that information to guide our design process. We decided that no “one” plan should be designed, yet the concentration should be at setting up a series of guidelines (bylaws) that would incorporate all the data information, programmatic relationships, zoning, densities, ecological functions, and systems to optimize energy efficiency.
A few sketch diagrams to improvise on the ideas…very quickly we realized that they needed to be reviewed and refined…

guideline table – one column concentrating on site coverage, the other on programmatic relationships (maximum distances between programs, densities, mobility)

Plan with the layers of the city.
The plan was divided into four sections (one area for harvesting, orchards, recreation and a forested area) with a building density varying in each. A spinal circulation path connection the various sections and central nodal point for the neighbourhood activity centre.


Section
We chose to use slopped site where we can explore how the topography can further enhance how programs, functions, and systems are connected.
This section shows the layering of functions/ programs.
Next Round…
using these initial sketch diagrams and rules – we have taken a more precise subject to drive the project design. Maintaining the programmatic relationships in our initial investigations, we have decided to use use 3 key factors to drive the layout/ design. Hydrology (collection, filtration, retention, and re-use) Mobility, Programmatic Diversity. Together they are moulded together with a inverted topography where citizens can easily move through the neighbourhood, and building typologies incorporating multiple ground planes.

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Reverie Hotel_interior skin manipulation

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RSII. Self Sufficient Buildings

The last Class before Easter Break was on the Site Proposal and Master planning of the self-sufficient buildings. Students were divided into groups and were deciding on where their location site which will be in Mumbai, India, Each group was involved in the master planning of their Neighbourhood. There were intense discussions with Faculty willy Muller and Maite Bravo, which by the end of the day brought some concrete conclusions.

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