When I think about organic, I also think movement. Using the movement approach to promote an organic concept, I was inspired by voids and other elements that can contribute to creating a connection between my concept and the environment in which it is located. I have considered using the Manhattan site located at Broome street and Avenue of The Americas in SOHO (South of Houston). This site expresses many conditions including strict zoning restrictions, noisy major streets and other factors, but I want to challenge myself to express more connections to the site, which many buildings lack in the city.
1. This concept shows shows a major element in the middle, and surrounded by other smaller elements with a movement.
2. This concept shows a piercing movement, expressing the noisy and piercing sounds of noisy cars around the Manhattan site area.
3. This Concept expresses shifting of movements.
4. This Concept expresses spreading of movement from a focal point.
5. This Concept expresses intertwining, yet creating open space whiles enclosed.
6.This concept expresses the connection of two separated major elements, yet they move freely.
7. This concept expresses major movements towards a meeting point.
8. This concept shows a crossing movement.
9. This concept expresses elements showing freedom in space.
10. This concept shows busy elements at the knot areas, while the middle parts are left undisturbed. Also represent the noise on the streets at the outside of the hotel, while the interiors encourage privacy.
Sarah,
ReplyDeleteThese seem to be experiments in the collision of using various types of material structure and directional movement to derive form. Regardless, all organic forms no matter how complex are a series of simple or complex geometrical operations. Euclid's propositions can be start points to orient geometric determinations. The architect Vittorio Giorgini, was the first architect to successfully make topological structures through his observations of structures present in nature, to consider them as building and functioning techniques. He is considered the first morphological architect as forerunner in the study of objects present in nature with the relation to the formation of their shape. Casa Saldarini, 1962 is a great example of organic form derived from structural intent, architectural intent and program. http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=4350. Spatiology was a term he coined in 1965. This concept, started from the analysis of the sonic figures of the Swiss cardiologist Hans Jenny confirmed the translation which holds geometrical study to be a mathematical discipline, the backbone of statics, systemics and technology. Evolution of specific forms are contributed to the synthesis of the material and the philosophical as in the transformation of a sphere into a torus, or the Giorgini sphere which depicts the synthesis of the mobeus strip and the sphere. Also, referencing your studies within rectalinear volumes to provide analysis would be helpful. Euclidean geometry always becomes the gauge between non-euclidean geometry. Lastly, is it important to produce a figure which resonates within your assemblage. This figure should be free of recognizably mundane forms, yet allude to a penetrating resonating figure that remains and holds our attention. Henry Moore the sculptor achieved a type of "formlessness resonating form".
Peter Z