*파라메트릭 선분 추출하기 [ Ramiro Diaz-Granados/Amorphis ] Go Figure Exhibition + Discussion at SCI-Arc Gallery

건축가는 공간의 볼륨의 구획하기 위하여 다양한 방법으로
정의하며, 분석하고 그에 따르는 적정한 크기와 비례를 찾아 갑니다.
거기에는 주변환경을 분석한 다이어그램과 휴먼스케일, 그리고
다양한 프로그램을 일련의 법칙으로 조닝하여
공간들의 볼륨을 구체화 합니다.
그런데 어느샌가 이와같은 노력은 디지털 패러메트릭 디자인을 만나면서
새로운 도전을 받고 있습니다. 그것은 우리가 해오던 경험적 지식의 수치를 계량화하여
이것을 다시 디지털시뮬레이션을 통한 함수와 방정식으로 정립합니다.
이렇게 정렬된 변수는 건축가의 의도에 따라 프로그램에 따라 주변환경에 따라
다른 변수값을 대입하면서 일정한 패턴의 볼륨들을 형성하게 됩니다.
-우리는 종이위에서의 이와같은 곡선 그래프를 그릴 줄만 알았지
이것이 나중에 우리의 디자인을 정의하는 곡선,유기적인 공간의 볼륨을 정의하는
첫번째 선이 될줄은 몰랐다.-
그리고 그것에 대입되는 변수를 통하여 우리는 지금과 같은 다양한 형태의 곡선과
만날수 있게 된 것입니다. 이와 같이 혁신적인 발전은 지금까지 우리의
머리속에서만 있던 다양한 형태의 볼륨을 정의 및 구현 할 수 있게 도와주는 동시에
그 유기적인 볼륨을 형성시키는 구조적인 선분의 추출도 가능하게 도와준다.

건축을 하면서 이러한 환경을 자주 접하다보면 선을 긋는 행위가
얼마나 신중해야 하는지 느끼게 된다. 디지털 아키텍쳐에게 선이란
몇개의 변수가 만나는 함수에 대한 그래프로 나타나겠지만 나에게는 아직
더 많이 덜어내야 할 볼륨을 구획하는 일부분이기 때문이다.

reviewed by SJ

If you're in Los Angeles this month, don't miss to check out the exhibition Go Figure by LA-based architect Ramiro Diaz-Granados/Amorphis that is currently on view at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Diaz-Granados will discuss the installation with SCI-Arc director Eric Owen Moss on Friday, February 10, at 7pm.
Seeking to shift the role of the figure from a metaphorical device to a subliminal one, Go Figure promotes simultaneity in the evolution of the delineated figure by distributing cartoon and visceral features across a three-dimensional, spline based form.

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Project Description from the Designer:

Problematic

The contemporary architectural figure has evolved into two coherent strains of formal expression: the paedomorphic (simple, juvenile) and the peramorphic (complex, evolved). Borrowed from the field of evolutionary biology, these terms refer to how an individual organism and a species evolve in relation to their ancestors. The paedomorphic variety privileges simple, child-like features, and alludes to the ‘cartoon’ figure while the peramorphic privileges complicated, visceral features, and alludes to bio-morphism.

Go Figure promotes heterochrony in the evolution of the delineated figure by distributing paedomorphic and peramorphic features across a three-dimensional, spline based form. Also borrowed from evolutionary biology, heterochrony has to do with the displacement in time of a particular set of features in an organism. For example, the homo sapien head is heterochronous in terms of the evolution of skull and jaw from its primate ancestors.  The skull is peramorphic in that it has grown larger and more complex while the jaw has become smaller and simpler. In Go Figure, the concept of heterochrony is employed to produce simultaneity with respect to a range of binary attributes (i.e legible vs. sensate, singular vs. multiple, iconic vs. indexical, 2D vs 3D, part vs. whole, graphic vs. material etc.) in the evolution of an iconic figure: the Savoy vase by Alvar Aalto.

The sinuous and undulating top profile of the vase has been associated with the lakes of Finland, thereby granting it an authentic and meaningful status by connecting it to some regional condition. Here, the figure has been scaled up, draped, repeated, and materially reconstituted in order to dislodge it from its previous associations in order to produce novel spatial and affective qualities while retaining its specific attributes as a figure. This project seeks to shift the role of the figure from a metaphorical device to a subliminal one. The figure is legible through its strong profile, contour, and shape, yet is not interested in any pictorial representation. It’s more interested in the use of profile, color, scale, texture, and assembly to produce a physiological response. Its visuality is intended to grab ones attention and lure them into a world of optical and haptic pleasure.

Description

The Savoy figure is scaled up and repeated four times into two symmetrical pairs. Each pair is situated in the gallery according to different transversal regulating lines stemming from the relationship between the ground and the ceiling. One pair is centered within the space, the other is centered under one of the structural bays. Together they fill the space in a composition that confounds the legibility of each figure in favor of more sensate qualities with allusions to calligraphy and graffiti. The figures are made out of powder-coated aluminum sheet, laser cut, and friction-fit. An assembly method has been devised so as to challenge the conventional reliance on hardware. The color palette consists of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. As cmyk is a subtractive color model, this palette is intended to subtract whiteness from the space and produce secondary and tertiary chromas which shift as one moves around and through the installation. Each figure is a unique combination of three of the four colors with a progression from one to the next allowing each color to be used three times.

Project Details:

Project: Go Figure, gallery installation
Location: Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Date: Jan 13 - Feb 24, 2012
Design: Ramiro Diaz-Granados
Design development: Ramiro Diaz-Granados, Daniel Berlin, Mahyoub Aranki
Installation coordinator: Matthew Au
Structural consultant: Bruce Danziger

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