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The red series lists de main diagrammatic tools used to contain, structure and organize a set of differences. It describes the function of architecture in passing from a formless situation to a formal configuration. La serie roja lista las principales herramientas diagramáticas utilizadas para contener, estructurar y organizar un conjunto de diferencias. Describe la función de la arquitectura en pasar de una situación sin forma a una configuración formal. The blue series presents a number of conceptual diagrams that try to break down codes and boundaries like those of the "architectural" structures of the red series. The aim is to bring architecture closer to the themes of the new sciences and poststructuralist philosophies. La serie azul presenta un número de esquemas conceptuales que tratan de romper los códigos y los límites como los de las estructuras "arquitectónicas" de la serie roja. El objetivo es acercar la arquitectura a los temas de las nuevas ciencias y filosofías post-estructuralistas.

SERIE ROJA GRID “Laying down a grid should be a mapping of the possible, not restraining order. A grid is a necklace, folded in a certain way, which at any instant can be pulled apart and shifted dramatically – a moveable feast, not necessarily serious, fixed one moment, vanishing and refigured in the other. Each point on grid is allowed a charm life.” (Cecil Balmond) While the grid is traditionally seen as a more or less regular Cartesian structure of repetition that generates static and rational forms, for some contemporary approaches to design it is a means of coming up with unpredictable and mutable forms and spaces. Brought to life and rendered malleable through the use of increasingly advanced computer programs, such meshes are deformed and moved around to materialize complex relationships and connections between the different variables of the architecture and the environment taken into consideration by designers. Eisenman, for example, in modeling the spatial and formal relations of his designs, transforms his initially Cartesian grids into evolutionary and flexible working matrices that assist the generative process of diagrams through an operation called morphing, a technique adopted by the cinema and used to obtain a fusion of different figures into a single image so that no one of them dominates over another. YK

GRILLA "El establecimiento de una grilla debería ser una cartografía de los posible, no una orden de restricción. Una grilla es un collar, doblado de una manera determinada, que en cualquier instante puede ser separado y cambia dramáticamente -París era una fiesta, no necesariamente solemne, fijó un momento, desapareciendo y reconfigurado en el otro. Cada punto de la grilla se permite una vida encantadora." (Cecil Balmond) Mientras que la grilla está considerada tradicionalmente como una estructura cartesiana de


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