action, a choreographed one of course, where Ensamble Studio people grab steel studs, and together improvise their location, introducing uncertainty as part of the spatial and structural conditions. Then our drawing becomes the representation, the formation, the 3D scanning, the photography of the model, that’s why I call it data.
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Our best work ally is the physical model and the second the 3D model. Software like Revit has been an amazing discovery because suddenly we can all work in the same file doing the same project with no space for lies. When you know that you have to build it, you don’t want to lie. You want to have it all right from the beginning, right? So the model is able to accommodate the work of everybody and eliminates the waste of time that conventional representation involves, like crafting plans and sections and making sure they correspond with each other… or manually calculating quantities of all building parts to estimate a budget. Technology now provides amazing tools to remove most of the work that serves for nothing, reduce project conflicts, and get people to work as a real team. AGA
And God bless the digital era because it has connected us with our original roots technologically. And this is what we tried to explain yesterday. Some people might think that because we build masses that
are so archetypical and so ancestral and primal, we may draw with blood in a cave. No, we use all the advantages of digital technology because that is what is really connecting us with that spirit. The The product of a year-long investigation, thesis occurs in the final semester of technology is giving us theAopportunity the graduate sequence. self-directed creative project, students engage in the toprocess connectofmatter to data. Andand this synthesis is research, critique, to create works that engage with architectural discourse. Capping the studio is a review by outside critics and the ultimate ambition of architecture. a week longispublic exhibition of the Architecture a material practice. Thework. technology is digital and the data is digital, but all thatProjects has to be transferred Featured to matter ultimately: to wood, to stone, orwe in do thethe Penal Colony toBIM sand.vs SoBIM how do transfer David Deiss in the most efficient way? Through the extreme, throughArchaetectures data. And now we for havea Topokairos: Shadowtime Landscape interesting tools. That’ s why automation Chua Xin En Theresa and prefabrication will enable total integration—the highway to matter. The Pedagogical Rug: Until we can live in data. But that brings Agency within Refuge usCourtney to the hypothesis Krause of Singularity and if you read about it, it’s fascinating. But soLine far, we| Weight have to live in matter. And Sophie Anstreicher that’s architecture. That’s transfer from Scott Chriss data to matter. That’s what we do. So Alexandre Comas what are doing in the workshop with TroyweHuckendubler Michigan students is reverse engineering Mischievous the design process,Gizmo starting with matter Masataka Yoshikawa and transforming it into data. Generally it is donesthe other way around. But we Plato’ Cavern Daito share with students that areSijie trying James Howe III this transfer is bidirectional. This is the fascinating moment that we are living in. Elemental Procedures Onur Kamburoglu Ssu-ing Wu Jonathan Yates
Anxious Horizon Tony Gonzalez
2017 Thesis Awards Elemental Procedures Onur Kamburoglu Ssu-ing Wu Jonathan Yates
A Little More Than Literal Yibo Jiao
Mischievous Gizmo Masataka Yoshikawa
No. 06: Acension’s Variable Orientations Samantha Okolita
A.R.C. + ARK: Animal Refugee Carrier Shurui Wesley Wu
Débora Mesa and Antón GarcíaAbril were interviewed by Le Yang and Jordan Laurila on October 21, 2017. Photographs: Chuchu Wu. ensamble.info