016 - Design Review

Main Points to discuss:

Program:

. program first starting point --> reference to OMA

. program can be seen as an active factor

Plan - Section:

. plan as the horizontal expression of a vertical intension. Its all about the horizontal movement.

. section it presents external physical and constructional issues. The section is more real. It involves a tri - part arrangement. 

The Typical Plan:

. typical plan is known to be " a plan without qualities"

. a plan that repeats itself.

. a plan with depth and closure

. a plan that can be seen as bad.

. its purpose is to populate and office.

. it takes no demands.

. by the sixties, it was refined as a science of co-ordination of columns grids, facade modules, ceiling tiles, lighting fixtures, partitions.

. the plan itself is formed up of 4 components: floors, cores, the perimeter, columns. 

A Office for a Metropolitan Architecture:

. A vision fueled by the formal and social multiplicities of urban life. 

. OMA have been termed as "the social condensers of our time"

. the work of Koolhaas is strongly ordered by trajectories of movement through building. 

. mainly focused on vertical movement, i.e stairs, ramps and lifts. This becomes modes of access to fields of encounters of "event-fields". He realizes as a multiple of freedoms.

. he seeks an architecture that encourages an irruption of events and encounters. 

. he concentrates on setting up a spatial structure that creates a multiplicity of choice for individuals and encounters. 

. Koolhaas often design's interiors as if they were exteriors, i.e. The Educatorium. 

. Koolhaas's works enables patterns of free play with spatial order. His work consists off the relationship between the randomness and freedom and the presence of same form. 

. it shifts from a focus of an architectural object to a focus on field relation.

. the idea of a building as a field that an object entails a shift in critique from form to spatial analysis. 

Spatial Syntax:

. Tool that is use to extract deep social structure of a space. 

. explain he method on how the structure can be extracted. 

. configuration and integration analysis

. total depth and reasoning

. considering the possibilities of core wells and courtyard internal spaces. Their effects. 

Art and Media Tech Analysis:

. further plan on where to take this on board. 

. analysis of this by constructing a private and public route.

. extract its structures with the use of syntax innovation.

. compose its internal space, plaster models. 

. compare and contrast the outcomes. 

These points were my main focused that I personally wanted to discuss within the review. Most of them were raised and managed to receive constructive feedback on where I should be heading with this. Here below is a Jpeg example of my presentation that I displayed on the day. As you can see every point that was raised and refined were converted into a diagram. This was my initial intent. On the other side is a strip column of text about each individual step within my research. Most of this was converted into a book. This could be a start for my own thesis.

Thoughts and indications of progress:

. can't you design instinctively rather than method?
. interesting comparisons between the well cores and the court analogy
. no scale and no function - how abstract can you go?
. make generic floors unique?
. should tertiary be in the walls? .. but then a core is tertiary
. could you compare space syntax method and intuitive method?  
. King's Cross Masterplan scheme
. look at consultation and follow ups. 
. be careful if you can use it as a design method. 
. chances are it will go wrong, but in not being successful, it will b interesting. you can then reflect and analyze. 
. get under the skin to fully understand connective and how it actually works. 
. use this to post-rationalize.
. fine something you can test it with, design?
. look at the mediateque.