studio
air santiago camarena
Tu t o r M e h r n o u s h K h o r a s g a n i
2017
studio
air
santiago camarena
2017
content Introd uct ion p.4,5
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" Design Futuring " p.8,9,10,11.
" Design Computation " p.12,13, 14,15.
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Santiago Camarena
resume Studing previously at
Iberoamericana University Mexico City Architecture and Urban Design
Environments Melbourne University Autocad Revit Rhino grasshopper (recently) 3ds Max Maya Illustrator Photoshop InDesign
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I have been studying architecture in Mexico for the last 4 years. I started, as many others to study mentally and emotionally young. Where everything around us is based on perceptions, empiric and natural at all times. Initially, the stimulus of the material world starts making sense in our hearts and minds. Then I drenched myself in the humongous study of Architecture. Moreover, as many others I would rather say, I’m lucky to have an intrinsic perception of the world, and how it may function. In this matter talking about the space that surrounds us. Also the way people develop their activities in an endless ways of possibilities. Related in an internal and external survival and adaptation of the conext. And when I mean context I like to picture the biggest reference we have available of our environment, Earth. The question that values my perception of architecture is the importance of the possibilities of human quality of life. And being clear that any hope of a better quality of life will lead a sustainable design. Where the Earth and its own generous environments are the only reason we are here, breathing, growing and learning. The natural environments adapt and regenerate. Now, it is time to adapt and regenerate our urban environment. Therefore, the way I see this world now, goes further than shapes and materials, of full and empty spaces. I like to reach the intangible discover of what can bring more to life than a roof of protection. As architects we have big responsibilities. We must bring beauty closer, also the functionalism and its own context, but look ahead look ahead and feel. Elements that can keep us calmed within ourselves, in our homes, in our cities and in our natural environments. To be part of the evolution of design, pointing forward technology and sensitivity. By bringing qualities that make life enjoyable, responsible and human.
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Science / Technology / Design Computer - Architecture design- production man-machine - praxis
Felix Candela Candela is a great inspiration of shell sculptoric buildings, by 1958 he conceive paraboloids as a new way to propose strcutures. With no intelligent technology he too his own inspiration for reinforced concrete based in nature. The building "Los Manantiales" is a restaurant sited next to Xochimilco River in Mexico City, Where Candela wanted to express the extention of organic shapes of the surrounding landscape towards afunction of interactions between men and nature. With parabolic structures mashing together to create an open plan for a general function. The building lacks of function purpose, and becomes more a sculptoric element. Buti this is a great resemblance example to look forward in this contemporary century.
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design futuring
A1 Design practice is the key to develop society direction. Through history the design content in Architecture has been a study of shapes and forms, function and direction always trying to reinvent itself to grow according its own time. The extend of architecture creativity has expand to technology. The capacities of man-computer avilities to function and think becomes one. They have took-off to the unstopable technological train ahead of us. If we learn how to use technology in the best way of our abilities, our creativity is exploring in different forms, human and computer creativity conceptualized by data.
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Shigeru Ban Architects
Shigeru known as the paper architect has a specific way to apply conventional knowledge to new structural alternatives. Structural sophistication with organic materials. He refers to an architecture that seeks for quick, cheap and sustainable measures to build. “The nine bridges Golf Club“ building has a big roof cover, in a rare tree-form timber columns. This structure was designed according to the regulations of Korea regarding the amount of timber buildings seize. The wooden structures are inspired in summer cushions of Korea called “Bamboo wife”. The big inspiration of Ban is reflected in parametric structures that accomplish a system to be more efficient.
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Architecture along it´s own evolution and the way it has tried to reinvent itself. Towards a manner of uniqueness and exploration of shapes. With technology to satisfy the necesities the new man is living at a period of time. We can encounter different examples of architecture through new technologies. Some of them more than 50 years old where computer creativity wasn't part of the creative design. Felix Candela (p. 8) is a good example of technology of the moment put in practice. Shigeru Van (next example) is another master mind of the use of technology available to propose a structure design that is answering to the system of a new necessity. Human necessities of the present moment are global, are the well-being of all type of ecosystems as we know them. These environmental needs are more than ever the precursor to deďŹ ne a creative way of design. The time we are living requires bigger responsibilities. The ones we are facing today and the ones that are already a warning.
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“ Economic, technical and cultural conditions have change radically. Its is very important for our coulture and our society, as well as for technology industry, to find good solutions…
Along this path industry and technology will join with the forces of thought and culture. “
Mies van der Rhoe, cited in Curtis, architecture since 1900, p.271)
Miguel Angel Aragonés
Mar Adentro1 is an ocean resort, product of Aragones knowledge and inspiration between what he learned from functionality of the Modern Movement and pieces of interaction with new technologies. The nest in the middle of the water breaks the hardness of the concrete surrounding. Result of parametric shell/nest to embrace and give shadow to the cafeteria and bar of this area.
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The project is juxtaposition of the architecture we often know and the one we are starting to conceive. It might be as important to the project that any other structural system. The organic feeling works as a tree to reconcile with nature. Mar Adentro/Miguel Angel Aragones (Archdaily Online, 2016)
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design computation
The judgement of computer interrupting creative thinking and practice has been part of this era. The translation of creativity has now reached a new meaning. Creativity has always been explained through tools that help us make this mental “art” process visual, or reachable for other intuitions. Tools, technology applied to creative design has been part of the media to reach what the mind wants to express in all types of design that we know today. Where does Computer Design is not a tool or a technology? This new era, these new necessities are seeking for technology to work hand by hand. We can refer to the architecture Modern Movement. When architects where trying to find a new language a new technique that had meaning to the time they were living. When they were looking for reactions to function in this past Modern world. The reaction they where trying to discover is part of the same evolution of function. What is really the function nowadays? If the function was a sum of operations, of responses of what this space wants to achieve. These modern ideas where trying to open the possibilities of living, not only related to reinvent shapes, related to new possibilities of leaving facing the Modern world they were experiencing. What are the possibilities of this contemporary world (2017)? What responses we want to achieve?
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“The problem of the modern dwelling is primarily architectural, in spite of its technical and economic aspects. It is a complex problem of planning and can therefore be solved only by creative minds…” Translated by the german by Philip Johnson. From Mies van der Rhoe. (Museum of modern Art. New York, 1947)
ICD, ITKE and Stuggart Biomimetic as a way to develop construction design. We face technology as we usually know it the shapes and formes are restricted to the materials the society has grown in their industries. By investigating the properties of nature and the way their internal systems work as structures is an excellent way to grow this systems in scale and discover structures and freedoms of design. An example of this study is, the Research Pavilion 201320141 of ICD, ITKE and Stuggart. They constructed a bionic research pavilion. By the strategy of biomimetic, studding shells of a bug they developed a robotic way to produce a reinforced fibre polymer structure. Which would allow a hard structure and a big length of freedom. The material, form and robotics lead to the construction of this pavilion. ICD/ITKE Research pavilion 2013-2014, by A. Menges, J, Knippers, Stuggart University, 2014 (online, http://www.achimmenges.net/?p=5713)
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Is time to relate to what we have learned and the circumstances we are living on. Sustainability, Technology, Computer, Man- Computer. The respond of all of that may need to be a sum of all this responses, a technological, environmental, sustainable and computer man. Tecnhology is the respond to make our contemporary necessities achievable. What is necessary in this new century? Maybe the most advanced technology we have, computation, is the one that in hands of designer can shape the world. Is time to relay context of an architecture project to the biggest picture of context available, earth. Does the symbiosis of man and computer will give direction to new systems of reaction?
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ClĂĄsicos de Arquitectura: Restaurante Los Manantiales / FĂŠlix Candela by Karina Duque 5 Julio, 2011 http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/02-95859/clasicos-de-arquitectura-restaurante-losmanantiales-felix-candela Spotlight: Shigeru Ban by Jan Doroteo, 5 August, 2016 http://www.archdaily.com/792108/spotlight-shigeru-ban Mar Adentro/Miguel Angel Aragones (Archdaily Online, 2016) <http://www.archdaily.com/787732/mar-adentro-miguel-angel-aragones/> Mies van der Rhoe, cited in Curtis, architecture since 1900, p.271) Translated by the german by Philip Johnson. From Mies van der Rhoe. (Museum of modern Art. New York, 1947) ICD/ITKE Research pavilion 2013-2014, by A. Menges, J, Knippers, Stuggart University, 2014 (online, http://www.achimmenges.net/?p=5713)
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