Reflection on readings

The Economices of Elegance

• human, economic and architectural movement.
• Factors such as privacy, maximizing views to the surroundings and emergency exit paths should be incorporated.
• Twisting? can this work for the flow of water?
• "The relationships between structure, emergency stair core and unit change not only between floors, but also in response to the unique effects of each user" - in my building, I should make each part of the building respond differently to water.

Elegance in the Age of Digital Technique

•  More parameters = more formal features to emerge.
• Elaboration of refined surfaces to develop transformations between formal features, which should be attenuated and gradual.

Innovative Techniques of Generating form

• Morphological-conceptual experimentation - Very similar to what we are doing now for this assignment, putting ideas into a site and then developing these ideas through morphological elements. (eg. For my concept of landmarks, boundaries and edges, placing forces in these three spaces and see how particles develop from the folie. What forms are created? How can I transform this into a building?)
• Effects to be incorporated into my design and experimentation.. SPACIAL, MATERIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL.
• An element of my concept is transitional spaces. The reading discusses how to blur the traditional distinctions between interior and exterior, above and below. That is, how to blur the transitional spaces.
• Morphing techniques - used to transform one form into another. - blender experiments.
• Site - variable conditions and reactions to the activities so that the design melds into the landscape.