DESIGN STUDIO M1 TYPES VS SPECIES- Hernan
Diaz Alonso
ioud INSTITUTE OF URBAN DESIGN
Innsbruck/Austria
This
studio will use the program of a house as a tool to study the shift towards a
paradigm of Species as opposed to the ubiquitous platform of Types. If Types
are traditionally viewed as categories of standardization, and symbolic
expressions of form, then Species are malleable entities that are in constant
metamorphosis; adaptation and mutation are the main characteristics from
Species.
A
Species needs a lineage to be acknowledged as such, indeed a Type also needs a
lineage to become such. But a Species has more freedom, because it can mutate.
A Type can change, but it cannot mutate, it can be combined, or renewed, but it
will always be a type.
Computation
plays a fundamental role in the production of species; current software
technology has given architecture the possibility to produce change at a rapid
pace. We now can visualize and
manipulate geometry as active matter, forms are never static, they are constantly
actualized. A sphere is never a primitive, it is instead an active network of
points that mutates, it is globular, sharp, soft and faceted at the same time.
The
studio proposes, to conduct an extensive research in the cellular logic and
construction of structural instability. To radicalize the agenda of the
autonomy of form, using the possibilities of kinetic and movement.
Mirco-techniques
for combining the thresholds of the horrific-becoming-beautiful and the
beautiful-becoming-horrific (grotesque) have imprinted themselves as visual-temporal
cues on the current design retina. The importance of the multiplicity has
finally opened the door for mutation as a permanent state of the present
Head: Hernan
Diaz Alonso
Head of the institute: Peter Trummer
Teaching: Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes
Head of the institute: Peter Trummer
Teaching: Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes
Further
info: http://ioud-hda.blogspot.co.at/
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at: http://www.ioud.org/
