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Relics of Electronic Hallucinations. Gazing at Early Computational Fluid Dynamics Drawings from Los Alamos Nuclear Research Center
2024
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2024
Rules, A Short History Of What We Live By, A book by Lorraine Daston
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Survey and characterisation of the archaeological landscape of Lovo
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Restitution
2024
Stoclet 1911 - Hypothesis
2024
TV Show: 3D Digitization and Built Heritage Preservation
2024
Drawing air: the evolution of the representation of air in architectural drawing from the industrial revolution to the present
2023
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2023
Analysis, Systems & Composition
2023
Code Tracing
2023
Maison du Peuple full scale experience on its original site
2023
From projection to building and vice versa
2023
Emergence of pre-digital algorithmic design
2023
[x] Comparing Randomness
2023
Anthropic Units in Baroque Architecture, the Gallery of the Palazzo Spada and the Roman Palm
2023
Workshop Glyph
2023
Re-presentation as an analytical tool in Baroque Architecture
2022
Crossed Experimentations of Low-Altitude Surveys For The Detection Of Buried Structures
2022
Chamber Music Hall of Horta's Palais des Beaux-Arts: 3D Hypothesis
2022
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music II/II
2022
Misreading, once again...
2022
Perspectives on Dwelling : Architectural Anthropologies of Home
2022
Workshop (fig.22)
2022
Towards a multi-scale semantic characterization of the built heritage
2021
De l'incarnation de la protoarchitecture
2021
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Algorithmic Music I/II
2021
Noise
2021
(Close) Reading Morphosis
2021
Jeu d’échelles / échelles du jeu
2021
Pohlke
2021
Workshop (fig.)
2021
Perspectiva Virtualis
2021
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2020
Exploitation des numérisations pour l'analyse urbaine en contexte archéologique
2020
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2020
Urban Planning Representation
2020
Projection built into Sketchpad III: origin of a critical field in computer graphics
2020
Architectural Analysis, Survey and Documentation of Built Heritage
2019
Exploitation de numérisations hétérogènes pour la représentation et l'analyse d'un site archéologique de grande échelle : Pachacamac 1532
2019
Relecture de vocabulaires d’architecture : apport de la complexité des représentations numériques dans la caractérisation de formes architecturales
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Architectural Analysis and Graphic Representation - Morphosis in the 1980s
2019
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley II/II
2019
Histoires de Représentation
2019
Victor Horta's Maison du Peuple 3D restitution hypothesis
2019
Building Drawings : Decoding and Recoding the Graphic Projection Algorithm in Architectural Representation
2019
Places Royales Françaises. Réflexion d’une logique d’édification à travers une corrélation entre une analyse sémantique et un signal géométrique
2018
Virtual Systems – Actual Objects: Rendition of Morphosis ' Compositional Principles in the mid 1980s
2018
Formal Analysis and Computer Process - Medley I/II
2018

Comparing Randomness

Author(s): Myriem Saoud, Arnaud Naômé

Contribution to the seminar Matters of Abstraction, Intermediating Objects organized by MoA And Thinking/Making, KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture, Ghent on Feb. 3rd 2023.

Abstract:

The Pedagogical Innovation Week is, as its name suggests, a moment for radical pedagogical explorations at the Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta. This one week workshop marks a mid semester break from the architectural project studio and constitutes a compelling laboratory for teachers and students alike. It is within this distinct context that our reflection originates.

This article interrogates how can students produce architectural objects, questioning the role of the physical model in a short span project making exercice? And what systematic process can be put into place to foster the understanding of material inherent properties in the rapid prototyping approach?

The two iterations of our learning activity named (Fig.) and (Fig.22) asked a small group of third and fourth year students to question the limits of three fundamental facets of the architectural project by designing an artefact. Students were randomly assigned one model making material, representation type, one architectural and one element to explore. The main hypothesis of this exercise is that the realm of interpretation is restricted by the serendipity of each random combination. The Making was treated according to two understandings.

The first explores The Making trough the exploration of unusual model making materials such as foundry sand or paraffin wax, each one implying a specific technicality, disrupting students’ model making habits.
The second, also understands the act of drawing as a Making process that generates forms. Each drawing convention implies a specific design attitude. This aspect, coupled with specificities of each material shapes the final object.

The week was punctuated by keynote speakers who’s practices involve resonate the workshop’s themes. As a way to diversify points of views, the talks included two designers, Jonathan Muecke and Bram Vanderbeke, two architects, Trees studio NY and Marius Grootveld, as well as one artist Rafal Zajko. Their plurality and diversity of approaches allowed students to draw knowledge from adjacent fields.

The short-term exercise led to quick decision making which forged uninhibited productions and fruitful incidents coming from the experimentation process. As an added explorative layer, the second edition implemented the use of a drawing machine, linking the digital drawing to analog model making.

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