Reiser & Umemoto Discussion

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nanako umemoto

jesse reiser

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nanako umemoto 1980-1983 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York 1971-1975 Bachelor of Art in Urban Design and Landscape Design, Osaka University of Art, Japan

jesse reiser Master of Architecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1984 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, NY 1981

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nanako umemoto 1980-1983 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York 1971-1975 Bachelor of Art in Urban Design and Landscape Design, Osaka University of Art, Japan Visiting Professor -Columbia University GSAPP -Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA -École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Principal, RUR Architecture PC Born Kyoto, Japan

jesse reiser Master of Architecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1984 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, NY 1981 Licensed Architect, AIA F.A.A.R. Professor of Architecture - Princeton University School of Architecture Visiting Professor - Columbia University GSAPP Principal, RUR Architecture PC Born Manhattan, New York, 1958

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nanako umemoto 1980-1983 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York 1971-1975 Bachelor of Art in Urban Design and Landscape Design, Osaka University of Art, Japan Visiting Professor -Columbia University GSAPP -Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA -École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Principal, RUR Architecture PC Born Kyoto, Japan

jesse reiser Master of Architecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1984 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, NY 1981 Licensed Architect, AIA F.A.A.R. Professor of Architecture - Princeton University School of Architecture Visiting Professor - Columbia University GSAPP Principal, RUR Architecture PC Born Manhattan, New York, 1958

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nanako umemoto 1980-1983 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, New York 1971-1975 Bachelor of Art in Urban Design and Landscape Design, Osaka University of Art, Japan Visiting Professor -Columbia University GSAPP -Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA -École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Principal, RUR Architecture PC Born Kyoto, Japan

jesse reiser Master of Architecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1984 Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union, NY 1981 Licensed Architect, AIA F.A.A.R. Professor of Architecture - Princeton University School of Architecture Visiting Professor - Columbia University GSAPP Bernard Tschumi - Dean Principal, RUR Architecture PC Born Manhattan, New York, 1958 (PAPERLESS STUDIO)

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Reiser + Umemoto

ATLAS OF NOVEL TECTONICS

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ATLAS OF NOVEL TECTONICS -

Hone in on the many facets and theories of architecture.

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Reiser + Umemoto

ATLAS OF NOVEL TECTONICS -

Hone in on the many facets and theories of architecture.

Questions about the role of architecture and architects on the cusp of the twenty-first century that concern issues of place, difference and systematics, notation and geometry.

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Reiser + Umemoto

ATLAS OF NOVEL TECTONICS -

Hone in on the many facets and theories of architecture.

Questions about the role of architecture and architects on the cusp of the twenty-first century that concern issues of place, difference and systematics, notation and geometry.

See architectural design as a series of problem situations.

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Reiser + Umemoto

ATLAS OF NOVEL TECTONICS -

Hone in on the many facets and theories of architecture.

Questions about the role of architecture and architects on the cusp of the twenty-first century that concern issues of place, difference and systematics, notation and geometry.

See architectural design as a series of problem situations.

Provide a cross-section of thinking and inspiration.

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R + U try to articulate their multidisciplinary concept of the diagram in terms and concepts derived primarily from the natural sciences and engineering.

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R + U try to articulate their multidisciplinary concept of the diagram in terms and concepts derived primarily from the natural sciences and engineering.

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Reiser + Umemoto

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R + U try to articulate their multidisciplinary concept of the diagram in terms and concepts derived primarily from the natural sciences and engineering.

The significance of the diagram to architecture through the metaphor of the birth of guncotton which Kwinter credits to the birth of vertical propulsion (space travel).

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R + U try to articulate their multidisciplinary concept of the diagram in terms and concepts derived primarily from the natural sciences and engineering.

The significance of the diagram to architecture through the metaphor of the birth of guncotton which Kwinter credits to the birth of vertical propulsion (space travel).

R + U is a research project that aims to discover architecture as a rhythmic pattern that is embedded everywhere in matter but that can be harvested only by subjecting matter to the action of a structuring diagram.

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R + U try to articulate their multidisciplinary concept of the diagram in terms and concepts derived primarily from the natural sciences and engineering.

The significance of the diagram to architecture through the metaphor of the birth of guncotton which Kwinter credits to the birth of vertical propulsion (space travel).

R + U is a research project that aims to discover architecture as a rhythmic pattern that is embedded everywhere in matter but that can be harvested only by subjecting matter to the action of a structuring diagram.

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Here we see significant correlation between this guncotton and diagramming. The key to the power of guncotton was actually a reduction in efficiency in the moment (a big BOOM!) which increased efficiency over time (lots of little booms). Likewise, the diagram is the key to an organized distribution of knowledge (perhaps a set of 1-step diagrams vs. a diagram with many steps confusingly placed into one).

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R + U try to articulate their multidisciplinary concept of the diagram in terms and concepts derived primarily from the natural sciences and engineering.

The significance of the diagram to architecture through the metaphor of the birth of guncotton which Kwinter credits to the birth of vertical propulsion (space travel).

R + U is a research project that aims to discover architecture as a rhythmic pattern that is embedded everywhere in matter but that can be harvested only by subjecting matter to the action of a structuring diagram.

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Here we see significant correlation between this guncotton and diagramming. The key to the power of guncotton was actually a reduction in efficiency in the moment (a big BOOM!) which increased efficiency over time (lots of little booms). Likewise, the diagram is the key to an organized distribution of knowledge (perhaps a set of 1-step diagrams vs. a diagram with many steps confusingly placed into one).

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Their interest lies in the use of the diagram to model, deploy and optimise dynamic, heterogeneous varieties, multi-scalar systems, gradients, fields and forces.

Reiser + Umemoto the diagram

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‘The diagram is an invisible matrix, a set of instructions, which underlies – and most importantly, organises – the expression of features in any material construct.’ Sanford Kwinter

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Reiser + Umemoto the diagram

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‘The diagram is an invisible matrix, a set of instructions, which underlies – and most importantly, organises – the expression of features in any material construct.’ Sanford Kwinter Diagram provides an abstract model of materiality. Diagrams are elastic yet precise and can acquire other material systems such as architecture and have the capacity to affect those systems in ways specific only to architecture.

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Reiser + Umemoto the diagram

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‘The diagram is an invisible matrix, a set of instructions, which underlies – and most importantly, organises – the expression of features in any material construct.’ Sanford Kwinter Diagram provides an abstract model of materiality. Diagrams are elastic yet precise and can acquire other material systems such as architecture and have the capacity to affect those systems in ways specific only to architecture.

‘The diagram is a field of relationships awaiting a scale and materiality’ Sanford Kwinter

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Yokohama Airport Terminal Competition 1995 A response to the inherent duality between global systems of transport and exchange and the condition of the specific sites upon which such systems cross.

Reiser + Umemoto scale of normativity

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Using the same diagram at different scales can produce drastically different effects.

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Reiser + Umemoto scale of normativity

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Using the same diagram at different scales can produce drastically different effects.

Diagrams considered conventional at the large end of the spectrum – the scale of the city or the neighbourhood – or at the small end – the scale of clothing – are regarded as radical at the middle scales of architecture.

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Reiser + Umemoto scale of normativity

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At the intermediate scale (that of the interior), the form is interminately furniture and partition.

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The form approaches the scale of a small landscape feature but runs the risk of being mimetic. At this scale domestic networks may interact with the form in a non-normative way.

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At this scale the form, while alien as a building type, begins to become coextensive with urban networks, the natural/artificial geography of the city.

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At this scale both the form and the network have slipped back into conventional relationships: folds appear in cloth and rock alike.

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University of Applied Arts, Vienna 2012 Multiple types of structural systems for different programs, and de-establishes a routine experience of the city.

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Chihuahua Cloud, The Cloud is architecture that travels with the dog, a second skin that communicates the uniqueness of any given Chihuahua’s body and temperament. The puffed, bespoke skin of the Cloud translates the movement, speed, and personality of the Chihuahua into a pattern of undulations. As the mediating link between pet and owner, the leash is treated with the importance of a joint within the dog’s body.

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Reiser + Umemoto abuse of the diagram

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‘The use of several models within a single project is a more nuanced and productive mode of operation, fosters necessitating and incorporating transitions and the novelty they promote.’ Atlas of Novel Tectonics

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Reiser + Umemoto abuse of the diagram

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‘The use of several models within a single project is a more nuanced and productive mode of operation, fosters necessitating and incorporating transitions and the novelty they promote.’ Atlas of Novel Tectonics Any one organisational model has its limits.

To have one model throughout the design process is exhaustive and reductive.

Many different models should be used at different scales.

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Reiser + Umemoto part-to-whole relationships

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Modernism deals exclusive with top-down hierarchy - each piece plays a specific role and has a specific relationship with the next piece.

They do not reject the idea of hierarchy but use it in a new way.

Complex hierarchy - Use organisational principles that promote communication across scales.

Use a methodology that involves both top-down and bottom-up logics operating in a feedback loop.

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Reiser + Umemoto part-to-whole relationships

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In contrast to the reductive models of urbanism, enables the emergence of new architectural organisations and effects out of wholes that are not reducible to their parts.

Legible not as parts to a whole but as whole-whole (part-part) relationships.

In other words, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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BMW Plant at LEIPZIG, Germany, 2002 a new typology, larger than a building yet smaller than a city.

This mega building smoothly integrates the urban elements of factory, landscape and infrastructure into a coherent spatial unity. The resulting composition engenders effects that are greater than the sum of its parts.

Reiser + Umemoto a holistic approach

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The Water Garden, 1997

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The Water Garden, 1997 Architecture of the garden – exemplifies man’s engagement with the material environment.

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The Water Garden, 1997 Architecture of the garden – exemplifies man’s engagement with the material environment.

R + U wanted to create a landscape whose dynamic forms would interact with nature, contrasted with the ‘dull’ geometry and passivity of the historic formal garden.

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The Water Garden, 1997 Architecture of the garden – exemplifies man’s engagement with the material environment.

R + U wanted to create a landscape whose dynamic forms would interact with nature, contrasted with the ‘dull’ geometry and passivity of the historic formal garden.

Water garden aims to produce instability in order to produce novelty Blurred distinction between organic and non-organic life

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The Water Garden, 1997 Project developed in two directions: 1) Development of the garden in the earth as a series of linked pools

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The Water Garden, 1997 Project developed in two directions: 1) Development of the garden in the earth as a series of linked pools 2) Development of the garden as a ‘grooved laminar system’ in a concrete slab (laminar means the process in which fluid moves smoothly in individual layers or streams)

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The Water Garden, 1997 The laminar system consists of a hierarchal series of global and local transformations – warps, dimples and folds.

This is done to create discontinuities in the evolution of the media (water, soil, plants, chemical salts) flowing on it

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