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PATRIK SCHUMACHER STUDIO | FUTURE WORK | AA DRL
Studio Master: Patrik Schumacher
Course tutor: Pierandrea Angius
Team: Madhuri Machchhi (India), Miroslav Naskov (Bulgaria), Qi Liu (China), Xiangfan Chen (China)
Our attention with thesis is to create different and diverse kind of spaces. The typical sense is to free the building its from technical aspect and provide users with the horizon of event scenarios. Navigating between the idea of seasonal change, and comfort discomfort during the period. The exciting part of these architecture will now be that it could generate different environment rather than single one. And the identity of this workspace changes as the building changes with time, seasons, years. Thereby, offering multiple possibilities to the user in the same space. Envisioned as new high res working district Stoke Newington Campus, an approach based on phenomenology is applied to MMVW Vortexture to design a complexity across multiple scales. Due to its strategic location for future developments and high density of new office environments in the campus, the main driver for the proposal is to analyse the people fl ow traversing the area every day. Site analysis including studies of the traffic in this specific area as well as identifying the transportation nodes in the area have been done. Based on the results a computational physics simulation is chosen to simulate systems such as fluid flows. The fluid dynamics and vortex field become the medium used for the project and become the concept of a “flow of people”. Co-working is different from the way standard modernist buildings operate. The traditional typical modernism is the hierarchical relationship of division, classification, and division. Everyone is doing repetitive work and then throwing it aside. Co-working is a dynamic ecosystem. It is a network organization, a cooperative relationship, etc. It brings together all the company’s strengths. These two modes are very different. And the working environment does not need to have clear functional divisions and traffic flow lines like other buildings such as houses. It is more open, fluid and changeable. It makes the world work more efficiently and creates new value. Such buildings are ground-breaking.
Studio Master: Patrik Schumacher
Course Tutor: Pierandrea Angius
Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory
Future Work - Urban and Architectural Semiology
The societal function of urban and architectural design is the innovative ordering of social processes. This function depends on the communicative capacity of the designed environment. The enhancement of this capacity poses the Semiological Project: to design the architectural project as a spatio-visual language.
The life process of society is a communication process that is ordered via rich typology of communicative situations. The built environment is thus society’s physical memory; it functions as a graphic language or map that we all intuitively navigate to find relevant communication partners in pre-structured situations. The designed settings/spaces are themselves communications: they are communications that define, premise and prime the communicative interactions that are expected to take place within the respectively framed territory. Building is communicating.
The studio will start by researching various visual languages like traffic sign systems or graphic notational systems as source domains for semiological design. The design of an architectural semiological system implies the build-up of a system of distinctions with spatial position, shape, morphology, materiality, colour etc. as registers of semantic encoding. The basic unit of architectural communication is the single space, zone or territory as architectural sign defining a particular, distinct social situation.
The programme to be accommodated is best understood in terms of interaction patterns of the users/participants. These patterns of communicative interaction can be modelled via scripted agents that respond to the coded environmental clues. This implies that the meaning of architecture can enter the digital model (design medium) and thus becomes the object of cumulative design elaboration. The system of signification works if the agents consistently respond to the relevant positional and morphological clues so that the behaviours to be expected can be read off the articulated environmental configuration. As agents cross significant thresholds their behavioural rules are modulated. Territorial distinctions thus order and coordinate interaction patterns.