Accumulative Micro Behaviors | Innovation and Novelty

Hernan Diaz Alonso and I are co-teaching Adavanced Studio V at Columbia. We’re adjusting our approach to what we’ve been researching over the last few years. All elements are now required to be 1” x 1” x 1” or less, forcing larger scale effects to emerge via hyperindexical accumulations.

Accumulative Micro Behaviors | Innovation and Novelty
Columbia GSAPP
Advanced Studio V
Fall 2006
Hernan Diaz Alonso and Alexander Pincus

Historically architecture always starts with a concept, an overall strategy or some kind of pre meaning. The studio proposes to re examine the possibilities of form generation as an autonomous entity.

Graphic Section

Graphic Building Section by Noah Olmsted

I love this graphic building section done by my friend Noah Olmsted for our Jeff Kipnis + Greg Lynn studio.

Opacity and Refraction

Building Opacity and Reflection into a Facade

I’m trying to figure out how to generate a combination of simulated and real reflections and at the same time produce surface depth. This image shows the interior skin of my project as it stands now. These channels (based on my fat studies) will be chromed and sit behind a curved glass skin, hopefully creating a double mirror effect.

Fat House

I had no idea that this is where I was going with my studio project, but at the moment I’m exploring the concept of fat within architecture. I’m trying to figure out how to produce a kind of cherub eroticism as opposed to something streamlined. Clearly the eroticism part is not there yet.

Nesting Forms and Fishnet Structure

I'm working on two complimentary strategies at the moment, nesting forms and fishnet structural systems. The idea is to produce more of a sensual relationship between the forms and then to wrap them with a revealing exoskeleton.

Form Study Refined

Orchid

More work for my Greg Lynn + Jeff Kipnis Studio...

Forms and Bodies and Colors

I’m trying to figure out some formal strategies for the house I am designing for the Greg Lynn + Jeff Kipnis studio I'm taking. At the moment I’m still fishing but there’s something about these that is working for me.

Bloody Hearts

I'm in a design studio taught by Greg Lynn and Jeff Kipnis this semester and this is my first little bit of work. See the brief of the studio here. So far it's amazing.