Folding in Architecture

ARCH 465 CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE & THEORY

FOLDING

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INDEX INTRODUCTION Architecture of the Digital Key Concepts FOLDING IN ARCHITECTURE Visions Unfolding Evolution of Data Geometrical Transformation Folding As An Alternative Vision FOLDED SPACES OF EISENMAN Alteka Office Bıilding Rebstockpark Masterplan City of Culture of Galicia REFERENCES

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INTRODUCTION

ARCHITECTURE OF THE DIGITAL

DETAIL NEED NOT BE THE REDUCTION OR CONCENTRATION OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INTO A DISCRETE MOMENT IN AN INTRICATE NETWORK, THERE ARE NO DETAILS PER SE. DETAIL IS EVERYWHERE. Folding In Architecture, Greg Lynn

It's not a modern kind of architecture or an architectural style, indeed. Details of a new method that is applicable to addressing architectural objectives.

Architectural architecture, conceived and completed by digital computing.

It ultimately influences the creation, representation, and produce of architecture in a manner that is basically digitally controlled:

ARCHITECTURE OF THE DIGITAL.

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Curvilinearity The cooperation of the utilization of digital software with calculus provide a new tool for architects to design forms that are fluid, curvilinear, or a intricate within a concept of continuity. Peter Eisenman can be seen as one of the pioneers of this architectural phenomenon.

Intricacy

Folding

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Design for Haus Immendorff, Peter Eisenman.

KEY CONCEPTS

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"FOLDING" BY EISENMAN

VISIONS UNFOLDING

PEOPLE BEHIND THE "FOLDING"

A ‘CRYPTOGRAPHER’ IS NEEDED, SOMEONE WHO CAN AT ONCE ACCOUNT FOR NATURE AND DECIPHER THE SOUL, WHO CAN PEER INTO THE CRANNIES OF MATTER AND READ INTO THE FOLDS OF THE SOUL.

GILLES DELEUZE

WILHEM GOTRIED LEIBNIZ

Gilles Deleuze

INTEREST IN SCIENTIFIC MODELS OF COMPLEXITY DELEUZIAN FOCUS ON SPATIAL MODELS

Peter Eisenman has been producing a manifesto on architectural paradigm transitions. He is deeply inspired and influenced by Gilles Deleuze's work, entitled "the fold Leibniz and the Baroque," which Deleuze himself obtained from numerous books and papers from Wilhem Gotfried Leibniz; "Discourse on Metaphysics and The Monadology" is an important viewpoint of the Baroque era.

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EVOLUTION OF DATA

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EVOLUTION OF DUPLICATED VISUAL DATA

THE SHIFT FROM THE MECHANICAL PARADIGM TO THE ELECTRONIC ONE

EVOLUTION OF DRAWN DATA THE NOTION THAT DATA SHOULD BE MALLEABLE, TANGIBLE AND THAT CAN BE MORPHED OR REFINED. Peter Eisenman

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Peter Eisenman states in his paper that the terms of vision and perspective are the dominant discourses in architecture. He notes that changes have been slow and rare, as planimetric projection allowed the understanding of a three dimensional space in two dimesnsions.

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GEOMETRICAL TRANSFORMATION

A METHOD FOR THE CREATION OF FORM IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE The geometrical transformation diagram of Peter Eisenman’s Rebstock Project

In order to produce such complex geometrical forms, architects mostly refer to geometrical transformation as a method. It is common to functionalize the geometrical transformation as ’Folding’ in today’s architecture. Although the concept of folding is referred under the effect of Deleuzian thinking by some designers, in practice, their understanding of the concept mainly emerged as a tool in the creation of form.

Chaos theory, René Thom.

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VISION

HARMONY CONTUNUITY THEMATIC MONOCULAR UNIFORM CARTESIAN HIERARCHY GRIDDED AND FORMATTED SPACE

FOLDING

RATIONALISED

AS AN ALTERNATIVE

ALTERNATIVE DIFFERENT WAYS OF ORGANISING ELEMENTS IN SPACE

Cubism as an alternative form of art

VISION AS SIGHT/ MIND CONSTRUCT

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NON-STYLISTIC SINGULAR NO CARTESIAN HIERARCHY DIVERSER TENDS TO MEANING AND FUNCTION ELEMENT TO SUBJECT HIERARCHY TENDS TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE GRIDDED SPACE 7

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ALTEKA

OFFICE BUILDING

ALTEKA OFFICE BUILDING Location: Tokyo, Japan Year: 1991

THE OBJECT BECOMES AN EVENT, OPENING UP, UNFOLDING. THE BUILDING EVADES A PURELY CARTESIAN DEFINITION BY NOT REPRESENTING AN ESSENTIAL FORM. INSTEAD, IT IS A FORM “BECOMING." -EISENMAN

A paradigmatic city of accumulation, juxtaposition, and compression, Tokyo is an index of contingent, tentative relations and new, complex urban realties.

Enfolded within the evolving reality of a mediated age, every Tokyo site is a nexus of activity that each building tries to stabilize and repress.

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Peter Eisenman presented Alteka Office Building proposed in 1991 as a primitive prototype of the folded archtecture and proposes it as an alternative to gridded space.

Eisenman shortly defines the notion of fold in terms of geometry as ‘the crossing or an extension from a point. He asserts that the points that are fixed by X, Y and Z coordinates at the beginning condition have not same connections with each other at the end of the folding.

Eisenman uses two orthogonal / Cartesian grids. He connects each orthogonal grid by folding. It is a process defined as the geometrical transformation of the orthogonal grids.

ALTEKA OFFICE BUILDING Location: Tokyo, Japan Year: 1991

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FOLDED SPACES OF EISENMAN

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REBSTOCKPARK MASTERPLAN

REBSTOCKPARK MASTERPLAN Location: Frankfurt am Main Year: 1990-1992

“BOTH THE REBSTOCK PARK AND THE ALTEKA TOWER ARE DRIVEN MORE

BY FOLDING AS A PROCESS THAN BY ANY PARTICULAR FOLD AS A DIAGRAM”

-JEFFREY KIPNIS

By compressing the large grid segment onto the site perimeter, and compressing a small-scale grid onto the closed site, contingent readings emerge as the two figures fold and unfold, each relative to its expanded position.

The fold gives the traditional idea of edge a dimension that both mediates and reframes conditions such as old and new, transport and arrival, commerce and housing.

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FOLDED SPACES OF EISENMAN

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CITY OF CULTURE OF GALICIA

The hilltop site overlooks the medieval center of Santiago and required new links to the city through vehicular and pedestrian paths. The design of pedestrian caminos, or ways, on the site is derived from the city’s historic street pattern. The caminos run between the buildings and lead to a multi-level plaza used for outdoor events. The forms of the buildings, related but different, seem to roll out of the landscape and echo the shape of the surrounding hills.

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Location: Santiago de Compostela, Year: 1999 - current

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references Eisenman, Peter D. and Charles Eastman.

“Visions unfolding: architecture in the age of electronic media.” (1992).

Lynn, G. (2015). Folding in Architecture (1993).

In The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992–2012, M. Carpo (Ed.). doi:10.1002/9781118795811.ch2 A.Picon & A.Ponte (eds.), Architecture and The Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors, p: 339 G. Lynn (ed), Architectural Design, no:102, (London: Academy Group Ltd, 1993), pp: 28-29 Thom, René (1975): Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: An Outline of a General Theory of Models. Trans. by Fowler, David H.. Reading et al.: W.A. Benjamin. https://eisenmanarchitects.com/AltekaOffice-Building-1991 https://eisenmanarchitects.com/Rebstock park-Masterplan-1992

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