List of Hypotheses for the 3 Clients

These are the hypotheses generated by 2 of our 5 study groups from yesterday's studio. You must email me your group's list or else you need to select your 2 hypotheses for each of the 3 clients from THIS list.

Sigmund Freud:

• Dreams act as the guardians of sleep.
• Analogies make people feel more comfortable.
• Anatomy is destiny.
• Civilisation began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of rock.
• Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
• As humans we become fixated on different and specific objects through three stages of development, known as the oral, anal and phallic stages.
• Repressed emotions will return to haunt a person in one form or another in the future.
• Humans are inherently driven by two conflicting central desires of life and death.
• The human psyche inherently possesses three elements, the Id, the Ego, and the Super-ego.   *Relate to building by stating three elements – idea of balance.
• Religion was conceived as a device to suppress violence and act as a mediator to the conflicts between the central forces of life and death.
• Buildings are like dreams – they express our secret desires.
• Our nature is a competition of our animal and moral instincts.

Isaac Newton:

• Gravity pulls everything to a point.
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
• Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in this state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
• A prism can decompose white light into a spectrum of colours.
• A second prism can recompose the multicoloured spectrum into white light.
• Mathematics is the central principle organizing the physical universe.
• There is an invisible force able to act over vast distances.
• Somewhere in the world, something is pushing back
• Gravity affects the orbits of the planets and explains their irregular patterns.
• Gravity can bend light and create colour.

Maria Agnesi:

• Agnesi’s work on the infinite series and differential equations has had a profound impact on the development of modern mathematics.
• We must all be free to study the divine science of architecture.
• Social commitment is a necessary accompaniment to geometric truth.
• A mathematically sound building is a certain building.
• At its core, social commitment is a necessary accompaniment to mathematical truth.

Some of the Recent Examples

Eduardo Soute de Moura

Stadium Braga, Portugal (2004)

Steven Holl

Horizontal Skyscraper - Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China (2006-2009).

Toshiko Mori

Syracuse Center of Execellence, Syracuse, NY (2010).

EXP 2 - THE SPACE BETWEEN

What is Landform?

Superstudio, 1971.

Shell Petroleum Headquarters Rueil-Malmaison, France. Designed by Kathryn Gustafson, 1989-1991.

When we discuss the idea and the historiography of Landform, we are, regardless the ahistorical tendency of the abundant imaginary forms projected onto the "Land", confronting the notion of Artifice as "the art of the multiple diversifying reality"(1); and the notion of Artifact as "the glory of man (or human kind) brought forth by the builders"(2).
The Imaginary and the Real, the constant players of the ultimate "shaping" of Landform, should guide you through Exp 2.

(1)-Christine Buci-Glucksmann, 2000.
(2)-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel

1- The Tower of Babel, the Imaginary;by Pieter Brueghel the Elder(1563).

2- Grand Canyon, the Real;


3- The Grand Canyon Skywalk, The Real mixed with the Imaginary;




4- Back To the Real;


The Dream of the Architectby Thomas Cole, 1840.

The Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model For Total Urbanisation,By Superstudio, 1969.

Built Form as Landform
Swimming Pool, Leça de Palmeira, Oporto, by Alvaro Siza (1966).

Stair/Built Form as Landform

One of the most photographed houses, Casa Malaparte is that perfect example when building becomes part of the landscape.

After the Quake - Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, by Toyo Ito.

And why does it survive the quake? (click on to read THE STRUCTURE OF SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE)

Courtesy of Jody Verser via Archdaily