Emergent E_Scapes

Spring 2017 Advanced Urban Studio Professor: William MacDonald

//Collaborator: Furui Sun

Tourist Culture

INFRASTRUCTURE CULTURE

DOMESTIC CULTURE WORK CULTURE

Hybrid Culture as Qualitative Affective Field

The urban life gives birth to our everyday cultures. These cultures affect the way we perceive our urban space. They interact or counterinteact with each other in various ways. Through interactions and changes through time, qualitative relationships are established spatially.

TOURIST CULTURE

DOMESTIC CULTURE

INFRASTRUCTURE CULTURE

WORK CULTURE

Intensity Mapping

Mapping of culture and qualities as fields in situ.

HYBRID CULTURE A.M.

HYBRID CULTURE P.M.

Intensity Mapping

Hyper Inflective Field placed on site to generate relationship between qualities.

Defense Support

AGGRESSION RESPONSE

DEFENSIVE FORMATION

SUPPORTIVE FORMATION

AGGRESSIVE FORMATION

RESPONSIVE FORMATION

DEFENSIVE FIELD

SUPPORTIVE FIELD

AGGRESSIVE FIELD

RESPONSIVE FIELD

Overlaying Sport Strategy Diagrams

Field Strategy Applied to Existing Site

“Systemic Hybrid”

The ‘Systemic Hybrid’ method allows for the investigation of incremental and aggregative processes and systems in volumetric relations of form, space, and time. The studio will focus on a synthetic design research into complex adaptive geometries, that will eventually yield the potential of ‘open-ended systemic hybrids’. The ‘systemic hybrid’ method leads to continually generative architectural solutions with the potential to respond to sponsored systemic change via evolving variables [such as context, time, use, politics, economy, history, in other words culture at large]. The goal is to create an ‘adaptable’ and ‘anticipatory’ architecture. An architecture able to be altered with time, in time and by time. An architecture with these traits and attributes is especially beneficial when it is deployed as an educational environment.

Building Envelope Analysis

Colours

Example Programs collaborate, communicate

A. Encouraging C. Contingent exhibit rm learn, show

A. Encouraging D. Flexible activity space relax, play office gymnasium activate, nurture café learn, think, nurture, comm. guide educate, manage C. Contingent

C. Contingent B. Compensatory

D. Flexible B. Compensatory multimedia rm show, discover

A. Encouraging B. Compensatory noon

D. Flexible

A. Encouraging B. Compensatory labs practice, experiment, discover

C. Contingent

D. Flexible

A. Encouraging

A. Encouraging C. Contingent music rm practice, create, collaborate garden nurture, experiment, discover

Building Envelope Quality Analysis

B. Compensatory

D. Flexible

B. Compensatory

C. Contingent

D. Flexible noon - evening morning - noon classroom morning - noon morning - evening morning - evening morning morning - evening morning - evening morning

Adaptive Programs

The ‘Systemic Hybrid’ method allows for the investigation of incremental and aggregative processes and systems in volumetric relations of form, space, and time. The studio will focus on a synthetic design research into complex adaptive geometries, that will eventually yield the potential of ‘open-ended systemic hybrids’. The ‘systemic hybrid’ method leads to continually generative architectural solutions with the potential to respond to sponsored systemic change via evolving variables [such as context, time, use, politics, economy, history, in other words culture at large]. The goal is to create an ‘adaptable’ and ‘anticipatory’ architecture. An architecture able to be altered with time, in time and by time. An architecture with these traits and attributes is especially beneficial when it is deployed as an educational environment.