Week 2 Journal

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03.04 Select one project that expresses contemporary scripting/programming cultures and defend/critique the author’s design philosophy. Integrate into the Expression of Interest proposal. What is contemporary scripting? Scripting is a relatively new technique for the exploration of architectural designs and designers are still figuring out new potentials for using scripting as a design tool (Brady Peters). Scripting is learnt through the practice of sharing code through web based platforms and open source. My project that I will choose for this week is from Antoni Gaudi. Antoni Gaudi is probably one of the masters I admire the most. Casa Batllo, one of his projects, is probably one of the greatest feat of architecture design and innovation. The Casa Batllo is probably one of his project that advances discourses on architecture. Through Gaudi’s we can see the extensive use of symbolism, how his buildings has a combination of Gothic, and curvilinear forms, geometric shapes and design through rotation. Our last few weeks discussing in lectures and tutes, I think that Gaudi’s projects relates well to the discussion of architectural discourse. How Gaudi’s shapes and design created through contemporary computational design techniques.

Such architecture during that time, was time consuming. The only technique that was available to create such a piece of architecture was calculate, to visualize it, and to create the flowing form. Nowadays in the world of architecture, designing is much faster and accurate using computational techniques.


This design known as the Nautilus House which was created by the architect Javier Senosiain of Arquitectura Organica. It is a blend of modern architecture and contemporary art. Computer aided design has accelerated the project of the Nautilus House and many more projects. Modern architects uses computational skills to help them produce their projects at a faster rate whilst we have to bear in mind that Gaudi spent much longer time on his projects. It was handmade and time consuming to calculate. However computational skill is accurate to the mm.


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