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The project, ‘Unearthing’, is a proposal for a discovery center on Herring Island. Herring Island is located a few minutes from the central business district and is an island filled with the scarce park land missing from the city. This project takes a look back into the past and maps the ongoing conflict between nature and man. It demonstrates the non-linear relationship between the events that have changed the island and becomes the literal representation of conflict with its circulation. The visitors meander through the discovery center and feel physically the jaggered past of human interaction with nature. Unearthing is a representation of Architectural discourse as in built form it is an enclosed structure, but it exists entirely to do with physical experience. The use of computational methods aids the transition from diagram to built form. From a two-dimensional line representation of conflict, it translates through computation a three-dimensional triangular faced structure that hugs the topography of Herring Island. The triangular faces warp around the snake like enclosure and dynamically change the perspective of the building.

PROJECT UNEARTHINGDESIGNED BY VICTOR WONGCOMPLETED 2011

UNEARTHINGHERRING ISLAND

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DISCOURSE AS A DISCUSSIONCASA DE MUSICA

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Office for Metropolition Architecture designed and built the Casa De Musica in Porto, housing its National Orchestra. The concert hall attempts to break away from the traditional norm of a ‘shoebox’ concert hall. It redefines the relationship between the hallowed interior and gerneral public outside (OMA, 2005). The project amplifies architectural discourse through its context in Porto. The sorrounding existing built forms do not mirror the newly built concert hall but rather it creates a dominate contrast. Secondly, the buildling is not only a concert hall but a central hub of the city. The idea of discourse amplifies the need for architecture to be more than just its built form. The building integrates itself within the urban fabric of the city of Porto and invites youths to use its facilities and run community acitivities. In many aspects, the building becomes a social binding point of the people in Porto. Beyond the enclosure and acoustic importance, the discourse exists socially.

The building is an example how the opportunity of computational design and designing something quite avant-garte in such a contrasting setting can generate much interest and interaction from the public. The built form in terms of a sculptural form can amplfy the same aspects with the people who are entering the ‘gateway’and provide a new identifier for the local community.

Discourse as a discussion is amplified by the building. The ongoing question whether it even suits and blends with its local architecture. The documented amature video by ‘checkinarchitecture’ shows how a community based survey about the building becomes an example of this discourse as a discussion. Although the residents and even people who work inside the building have different stylistic views of the building, they all agree how the building works beyond its main title as of social importance. The video also shows how the public interact with the building, outside the building invites them to use the facilities that are spilling out into the streetscape. DISCOURSE DISCUSSION: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tMUPPYIAEtw

“10 years from now it might be sitting here quite perfectly, but right now it’s a bit of a contrast, but contrast is good

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PROJECT CASA DE MUSICADESIGNED BY OMA / REM KOOLHAASCOMPLETED 2005

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04The ongoing relationship between man and the sky scraper is evident in the cities we live in today. The impact of commercialism often changes the design process, evident in the skyscrapers of the city skyline. They show the boundary where innovation has stopped with rationalism and sacrifices made between the concept and the built form.

Evolo is an Architecture and Design Journal on technological advances, sustainability and innovative design of the 21st century. They often provide design competitions calling for innovators from around the world to participate in what is essentially an ideas competition. Often in the built world we are constrained by realities of materials and cost, but by thinking within the freedom of conceptual computation, innovation can occur. By blocking out these limitations, it allows a certain liberation from tradtional norms and outcomes. It encourages innovative ideas that will become the forefront of tomorrows thinking and problem solving, thus contributing to the discourse of architecture. This project, ‘Tree of life’ by Syirid Denis and Gudzenko Anastasiya (Ukraine) shows this discourse of innovation though its concept. The concept of healing the world from the process of extraction (The human need for mining for resources) and attempts to ecologically solve this problem. It works much like an analogy of a tree, where the roots feed the main tower through geothermic power and extend outwards to leaves that collect groundwater and recylces waste water.Although these structures can be seen as a conceptual design, the free thinking and liberation from tradtional norms encourages innovative thinking. On a smaller scale project such as the gateway, this liberation can work as a advantage and encourage innovaive design. The design can become more complex as more avenues for innovation open.This analogy of a tree is a ever existing concept throughout the history of architecture. More famously, Frank Llyod Wright thought of sky scrapers as trees. As you see in this project, the process of computation can lead to more opportunities for innovation by integrating sustainability concerns and engineering into architecture. The need for inter-discipline working also opens more avenues for discourse.

DISCOURSE AS INNOVATIONTREE OF LIFE

PROJECT EVOLO SKY SCRAPER PROJECTDESIGNED BY SYIRID DENIS & GUDZENKO ANATASIYACOMPLETED 2011

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“ THE LIMITS OF MY LANGUAGE MEAN THE LIMITS OF MY WORLD “

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, PHILOSOPHER, 1922

‘Living Morphologies’ is a hundred-square meter conceptual proposal designed by David Pigram of Supermanoeuvre. The project is based in New York, a 1.5 billion dollar project that is a future interpreation of apartment dwellings defined by Parametric modelling. The project intergrates the use of morphogenetic algorithms, a technique where an element in space continually changes its state based on the states of those around it, giving rise to emergent patterns. The series of scripts run based on simple rules that give rise to these emergent patterns. These rules defined the site response and the topology of the dwellings, giving life to the expansive form stretching from New York’s dense urban infastructure into the water. A example of this rule is that the script would act like a bird and this bird could know a good smell from a bad smell, a reference to New York’s industrialisation and polution of air. This would later influence the views, ventilation and built court yards of the concept.

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‘Living Morphologies’ is a hundred-square meter conceptual proposal designed by David Pigram of Supermanoeuvre. The project is based in New York, a 1.5 billion dollar project that is a future interpreation of apartment dwellings defined by Parametric modelling. The project intergrates the use of morphogenetic algorithms, a technique where an element in space continually changes its state based on the states of those around it, giving rise to emergent patterns. The series of scripts run based on simple rules that give rise to these emergent patterns. These rules defined the site response and the topology of the dwellings, giving life to the expansive form stretching from New York’s dense urban infastructure into the water. A example of this rule is that the script would act like a bird and this bird could know a good smell from a bad smell, a reference to New York’s industrialisation and polution of air. This would later influence the views, ventilation and built court yards of the concept.

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LIVING MORPHOLOGIESsupermanoeuvre davepigram