Lecture 01a: Drawing Systems

figure 1, “A Bird Ballet ,” by Neels CASTILLON, more

figure 2, “Baraka” by Ron Fricke 1993, more info

Figure 3, “Flight Patterns,” by Aaron Koblin

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/index.html
Mapping data to visualize emergence of patterns.
Discovery through mapping of unit to whole.
Data visualization.

2014 (today)

2017 (UO graduation)

2027 (Design leadership)

1999/2000…. (UVa, 94-97 all hand media / GSAPP, 00-02 paperless studios)

COURSE OVERVIEW

I. Diagramming: Abstraction + Synthesis

II. Analog Parametrics

III. Digital Parametrics

I.Diagramming: Abstraction + Synthesis

1.1 /// Diagramming

1.2 /// Time-based Diagrams

1.3 /// Generative Diagrams + Precedent

II.Analog Parametrics

2.1 /// 2D Tiling

2.2 /// 3D Tiling

2.3 /// Lighting and Mapping

III.Digital Parametrics

3.1 /// Parametric Material Experience

3.2 /// Final Studio Presentation

3.3 Media Event 1:1 Mockup Digital Fabrication

ABSTRACTION

Abstraction + Synthesis

Abstraction

What is abstraction?
What is the purpose of abstraction?

Abstraction / Representation

What is the difference between abstraction and representation?
What is the difference between diagrammatic and representational?

figure, 14: Napoleon’s March to Moscow, http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard

What data is embedded in the diagram? Is it abstract, diagrammatic, representational?

The individual unit actually has very little meaning by itself because it doesn’t lend itself to any greater understanding that the synthesis of units acting together.

figure x, “Pithoprakta” by Iannis Xenakis, http://www.inderscience.com/jdr/backfiles/articles/issue2004.02/Art2.html

Big Data

Data driven design decisions
Role of data in discovery of design strategies
Data sources

figure x, Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima, great repository for complex diagrams based on data, also http://www.fundacionpalazuelo.com/

figure x, Mapping of Paris

The unit is individuals taking photographs and their geolocation, whole is the delineation of tourist photos and versus non-tourist photos

Suspended Particles and Urban Design Criteria, Speranza-Viader, Urban Design and Computing

Natural Systems

Drawing Water
http://sansumbrella.com/works/2011/drawing-water/
Wind Animation
http://hint.fm/wind/index.html

System = Unit + Organization / External Force

Relationship of unit to whole
Impact that application of external force has on unit and system

figure x, Echelman Sculpture Unit and Force Diagram

Unit – diamond
Whole – sculpture

figure x, “Her Secret is Patience” by Janet Echelman, Philip Speranza and Buro Happold

figure X, “Sky Garden” by Janet Echelman, Philip Speranza and Buro Happold, Richmond-Vancouver 2010 Olympic Oval

GTF Matthew Nyweide

Exercise 01

figure x, “Sendai Media Center,” Toyo Ito,

figure x, Josef Albers, more info

figure x, Peter Eisenman

figure x, Stan Allen

figure x, Iannis Xenakis

Measured Lines

Use Autocad to command the measurement of lines and their arrangement in space. Use Illustrator to control line weight, line type and other design communication characteristics.

Diagram, by Stan Allen

Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos

admire the lines…

Enric’s wiki here. A google search will also provide some great images for exploration especially now as we explored measured drawing. EMBT is the current office headed by his wife Benedetta Tagliabue.

Click here for a good interview with Alejandro Zaera.

Additional article on Miralles and lines