Check Out These New Digs

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CHECK OUT THESE NEW DIGS

SCI-ARC GRADUATE THESIS PREP SS 2020 Linzi Ai + Juicheng Hung Thesis Prep Advisor: Devyn Weiser

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CHECK OUT THESE NEW DIGS

SCI-ARC GRADUATE THESIS PREP SS 2020 Linzi Ai + Juicheng Hung Thesis Prep Advisor: Devyn Weiser

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TOP DEFINITION

digs

A home; place of residence "my bro just moved into new digs across town." by bmoc November 05, 2003

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new digs A new place of residence, as in an apartment.

We are checking out Devyn's new digs tonight. #moving#60's slang##house

by Tingle Likes Rupees October 04, 2016

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01 Statement Phygital materials are new materials digitally invented, or certain existing materials manipulated to behave in a manner that can not be achieved in the physical world.

Phygital materials are new materials digitally invented, or certain existing materials manipulated to behave in a manner that can not be achieved in the physical world. The infinite possibilities allowed by 3d software can subvert our perception of materials.

Architects’ attitudes towards materials result in vastly different architectures. From Kahn’s whispering bricks to Venturi’s flattening treatment on surfaces, architects always acknowledge materials, at least in the physical realm, while totally disregarding the digital ones. Although digital materials/ shaders/textures are usually still considered as only a type of surface treatment or representation of the physical world, we believe architects need to take a stance and be more aware of digital materials, in such a time where digital tools are unavoidable in the design process.

This thesis attempts to explore how phygital materials can be more than just surface treatment, but have an impact on other qualities of architecture, such as forms, tectonics, perception of space, etc., and thus changing the way we design architecture and objects. The aim is to take advantage of the limitations and opportunities in the digital operations in 3d software, to explore the hidden qualities that are embedded in the digital world.

Our workflow to investigate phygital materials is to manipulate physical elements in digital environments. In our proposal, phygital materials are always invented acknowledging the physical aspect of materials, either we choose to follow or intentionally disregard the rules. Materials are challenged to do unexpected things and the goal is to create a sense of strange familiarity. Different from most digital textures, we are imagining materials with digital tectonics, three-dimensionality, and sections.

Materials still follow certain rules and have unique properties in a digital manner: thickness, hardness, density, solubility, or even possible ways of virtual fabrications and scale limitations, etc.

A phygital material library/inventory would be designed, generated and then applied on assets extracting from existing architectural projects and objects, with the scales varies from teaspoon to a house. The scale and status of these assets would be disrupted at the same time, with the adoption of this new materiality. By challenging the conventional linear workflow in the design process, we believe new objects/elements can be produced.

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the big flat now

hierachy .

value and labor?

Diversity vs Uniformity?

the Italian domestic landscape 1960s Italy Furnitures, Objects, Houses, Environment

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SCALE/STATUS

Arnoldi Triplex Frank Gehry

Objects?

Products?

Furniture?

House?

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Why Materials Matter Surface Treatment?

Surface Treatment! #AfterImage Rules of Physics?

Rules of Digital?

Robert Venturi

Louis Kahn Peter Zumthor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Wang and Sรถderstrรถm Phygital Studio Richard Artschwager Richard Woods Ron Nagle Ken Price 2020 Spring Thesis Prep

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Automotive Trend Visuals Foam Studio

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02 Precedents Blurring the lines between the physical and the digital, phygital material chanllenges our perception of the digital, showing that it can be used to create seemingly physical objects with unique properties.

We believe that in the age of digital technology, the role of architects needs to be re-defined. We want to address this issue by exploring the opportunities laid in the digital world, which is, to be more precise, the use of phygital material, and how this material can change the way we design architecture.

In the age of The Big Flat Now, there is no hierachy of value in the digital world. Marble and wood is considered the same in the digital space. This allows us to rethink the way we treat materials. We examined differet ways of treating materials by architects/designers/artists, ranging from the most physical towards the more digital ones. Some of them are meterials that are inspired by or created based on exisiting materials, some are materials without physical reference, but fabricated in the real world.

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Table of Contents Wang &Sรถderstrรถm

Table Of Contents is a series of digital modelled objects with customized digital materials. As the designers described: "It is a mixed plate of things that feel familiar and things you have never seen in this world."

Warped

Extracted

Spaces of Tomorrow space 10

Wood In Process Simone Post Graphic approach incorporated digital prints that mimic wooden textures

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Imagined

Toad – Stools/Pagan’s Bastiaan de Nennie

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Flattening

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Interiority

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Mix & Match

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Ron Nagle

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Physical Materials being...

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Opportunity

Indian Institute Of Management Ahmedabad Louis Kahn, 1974

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Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum Peter Zumthor, 2016

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Visual

Seagram Building Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1958

Reedy Creek Fire Station Venturi Scott Brown & Associates, 1992-93

Architects having different attitutes towards materials were also exmained. While Kahn wants to have a conversation with bricks, asking what they want to be, Zumthor sees materials as new opportuties within architectural construction; Mies wants to misuse I beams for decoration on purpose; For Venturi, materials are just like cardboards, flat and purely visual.

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Palais Stoclet, 1911 Josef Hoffman

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03 Acquisitions + Assets Houses vs Furniture Robert Venturi's design assets at two vastly different scales: houses and furniture. Two sets of assets are digitally modelled and used for the following development.

Robert Venturi Assets HOUSES D'Agostino House, 1968-73 Hersey House, 1968 Vanna Venturi House, 1964 Beach House, 1959 Frug House I&II, 1965

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Robert Venturi Assets FURNITURE Swirl Chair, 1994-1995 Chairs for Knoll, 1978-84 Village Tea and Coffee Service for Swid Powell, 1985-86 Candlestick for Swid Powell, 1985-86 William and Mary Bureau for XVII International Triennale, Milan, 1984 Urn Table for Knoll, 1978-84

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HOUSE(S) and everything in the house "Total design has two meanings: first, what might be called the implosion of design, the focusing of design inward on a single intense point; second, what might be called the explosion of design, the expansion of design out to touch every possible point in the world.

In either case, the architect is in control, centralizing, orchestrating, dominating. Total design is a fantasy about control, about architecture as control. " - Mark Wigley "Whatever Happened to Total Design?"

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Sir John Soane's Museum John Soane, 1837

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MULTIPLE HOUSES

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Frank Gehry Arnoldi Triplex, 1981

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Gesamtkunstwerk [ guh-zahmt-koo nst-verk ]

noun German.

1 total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.

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Secession Exhibition Building Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1898

"Over one hundred Secession exhibitions were held there, each of which was considered a total work of art composed of sculptures, fabrics, wallpapers, carpets, friezes, music, etc. ... Much of the art presented in the building was sold, but so too was the decoration: collectors would literally buy the walls."

- Mark Wigley "Whatever Happened to Total Design?"

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Total Design

Houses Series Lebbeus Woods

"At a certain stage of my life, I fervently believed that architecture could sponsor a reunification of the arts, in the service of both public and private life, even though it would have to do so very much against all tendencies and trends."

- lebbeus woods

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Centre Le Corbusier Le Corbusier, 1967

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Osterley Park And House Robert Adam, 1760-177

The house hilights some of the talented craftsmen and women Adam worked with to create his distinctive ethos of ‘Total Design’, and uses Osterley’s interiors to demonstrate his skill and obsession for detail.

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05 Formal + Material Studies We attempted to create some customized materials in Cinema 4d. Our goal is to create a sense of interiority and three-dimensionality, imagining them as actual materials within the digital context, which would have impact on geometries, rather than just surface treatment for pre-exsiting forms.

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COLLECTION BOOK 2020

Material Catalogue Featured New Digs Technical Information

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MATERIALS STRIBLE SUMMER EDITION

MEGA DOT DARK BLUE OFF WHITE

CERABRIC TILES WHITE AQUAMARINE

DUPAURA BLUE PURPLE

MEGA DOT DARK BLUE OFF WHITE

3Dpx CUSTOMIZABLE

MEGA DOT

BOOLEAN

PAPER FOUNTAIN

NEON GREEN DARK BLUE

UNION INTERSECTION

GRAVITY SIMULATED

FRUIT CLAY

BUBOOD

ROCK THE COLUMN

APPLE KIWI FRUIT

FROM 480P TO 4K

GIFTBOX

DIGSCAPE

DIGSCAPE

NEON GREEN NEON PURPLE

NO. 1

NO. 2

GRADIENT

GRADIENT

SHADOW

NO. 1

NO. 2

STRIPES CHECKS

2000PX

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Material Swatch #2

Bubood

now available in 4K 720*720*720 1080*1080*1080 1920*1920*1920 3820*3820*3820

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Material Swatch #2

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Material Swatch #3

3Dpx

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Material Swatch #4

Paper Fountain

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Material Swatch #5

Mega Dots

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Material Swatch #6

Cerabric Tiles

available in multiple scales

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test #1 same material changing scale

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Material Swatch #7

Strible available in

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Furnishing

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test #2 same material same scale

House

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