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Architecture and virtuality / Antoine Picon
Because of its merely formal nature, most of digital architecture production
has stood aside from present culture relevant discussions. More than
blobs, CAD/CAM technologies are related to social and political issues
that make clear how architecture is supposed to engage material world
needs..
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Generative
matter / Jorge
Godoy, Daniel Aisenson
Architecture has usually reduced its distance to other disciplines.
It used to be music or sociology; today natural sciences lead big part
of architectural research, within digital media support. A renewed time
dimension allows the project to interact with external agents, through
programming and simulation processes.
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Computer aided design and manufacture / Claudio
Labarca
When moved to more sophisticated markets, even the weekly grocery shopping
engages identity, ideological choices and formal quality. Within the
first world society, this is the statement M Preis supermarkets seem
to make: there’s a link between communication, design, branding,
space and capital gain.
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Translation
and/or representation / Joseph
Rykwert
Thinking, looking at, drawing, building... architecture is always proposing
shifts from abstract territories (digital or mental) to material bodies.
This information transfer needs some synthesis to be done within its
associated representation. Just like in Borges’ maps, what is
the point of representation if there is no interpretation involved?.
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Skyscrapers
ground floor / Marcelo
Faiden
The engagement between architecture and gravity force is particularly
noticeable within the ground floor of any building. This stratum displays
the unavoidable link of architectural project with material world, including
carrying of loads, support, structure and even its considerations to
context.
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On shells and blobs / Martin
Bechthold
New representation techniques have expanded the possibilities of architectural
form, such as it is understood as an expansion for creative freedom.
How can we relate this new potential with the engagement that gravity
force (as weight, thrust and resistance) demands on built work?.
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Digital
materiality / Daniel
Rosenberg
As long as building processes relay on craftsmanship practices and intensive
use of labour force, constructive appropriateness of new digital tools
will be questioned. However, thinking this relation backwards could
be enlightening: what about associating specific digital commands to
specific building procedures?.
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Atracttion
to virtuality, willing for reality / Juan
Ignacio Baixas
Mostly used at previous design stages, the incorporation of digital
tools into construction processes is quite recent. But this displacement
from design field to work and building is the first step of a change
that just began; this shift should reinforce the relation between architecture
and built reality.
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Unbearable
/ Manuel
Corrada
For architecture has always existed a gap between project and built
work. This gap involves inevitable distortion due lost in translation:
passing from paper to the built domain demands attention on how images
are perceived and supported once out of his abstract origin.
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Siamese
towers, Santiago, Chile / Alejandro Aravena
We live in a culture that depends on sophisticated, highly cryptic processes,
in spite of an increasing lack of resources. How does architecture deal
with these facts? This time, a university computer laboratory depends
on elemental physic principles that regulate temperature, ventilation
and light levels.
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Plastic
forest - Mutek 2005, Valparaíso, Chile / Advanced Studio Spaces
of - for performance. Text: R. Tisi
How many strategies does architecture have to communicate an idea? How
can digital tools improve the interaction between buildings and its
inhabitants? New technologies not only have changed the way buildings
are designed and built but also the way we perceive and move within
space.
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Philips
Pavilion, Brussels, Belgium / Le
Corbusier. Text: F. Pérez Oyarzun
The
Philips pavilion proposes a synthesis that integrates architecture,
music, engineering and visual arts sheltered under a geometrically complex
surface. Before media culture, events or computer aided design became
widespread all over the world, this surface was at the same time a laboratory
for building procedures and a particular projection screen.
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Ibere
Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brasil / A. Siza. Text: F. Rihl
Although the completion date of the first building by Siza in Brazil
will be December 2006, it is already possible to see it finished on
the outside. A single-material strategy and an innovative, bold use
of concrete have brought closer both project and site work.
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Remota
Hotel, Puerto Natales, Chile / Germán Del Sol
Building in a distant land implies at least two things: the invention
of a landscape and certain demands upon materials. Besides traveling
distance issues, the materials involved in this construction have been
left to their fate, facing the same abandon that shaped the territory
where it stands.
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Faculty
News
South Park project, Santiago
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