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Stained Glass

Using Nodebox, I extracted a colorlist of about 4,800 colours from photos I’ve taken of stained glass windows, and printed them to an 80×60 grid.

Architecture at Venice Biennale 2009

The general consensus from art blog reports such as WMMNA is that the predominant conceptual motivation in the minds of innovative artchitects is the city as an organism that evolves and grows over time, and the architectural problems that arise as a result.

To take a quote from this year’s curator, Aaron Betsky: “Architecture is not building. Architecture must go beyond buildings because buildings are not enough. They are big and wasteful accumulations of natural resources that are difficult to adapt to the continually changing conditions of modern life.”

Even the Biennale’s title “Out There: Architecture Beyond Building” enforces the idea that the architectural structure as a singular and static unit is reaching it’s end.

Concepts for Future Apartment Living addresses this problem. An “Ersilia Tower” is never completed, so perhaps it is a building in the most literal and transient sense of the word, in that is never actually built but in a constant state of transformation. It is simply a modular form reminiscent of lego blocks in a child’s playroom: An apartment design that can be placed anywhere on the existing building as its need is called into existence.

MoMA - Linz, Austria: A building that uses screens as part of its design. As a result, it has the potential to change its appearance over time as its surroundings evolve.

Architectural Proposals

A large number of ambitious architectural projects have been undertaken as technology and engineering knowledge has rapidly improved. New locations, like Dubai in the UAE, have grown out of a desert to become an oasis of quantum leaps in architectural hysteria.

A lot of this innovation has focused on stylisation, and the production of new technology as a result.

In an Ersilia-style tower, design remains innovative, but also optimised for function. It is ideal for a site where space is restricted. It is also suitable for dynamic spaces, as an Ersilia apartment is designed so it can be added onto the structure if the capacity demands are not met over time.

Modular Apartment Structure

This building can evolve as the city evolves around it.

Some Nodebox Visualisations

Images generated using python based mac app Nodebox. Fantastic for 2d imagemaking/animating/interacting with the possibilities for visualising complex systems such as semantic networks and Lindenmayer systems.

Nodebox site

Some Nodebox images:

Grid.

Repeated and rotated geometric form.

Flying Squares