Looking through an old hard drive, I came across these great Polaroid photos of a 3D printed model of the Strata Tower that we made while I was at Asymptote Architecture.
PROJECT / IMAGE CREDIT »
Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Construction at Original Music Workshop is moving along swiftly. These photos show the interior performance hall and a few structural details. Notably, the springs footings for columns and beams have been put into place. These footings isolate the structure of the performance hall from vibration to reduce the amount of noise that can enter or escape the room.
Peter Zuspan and I will speak at Pecha Kucha The Sound Dimension on November 30. Also presenting are our good friends Mike Skinner of ARUP and Ben Rubin of Ear Studio, as well as other cool people like the band Fiery Furnaces and the writer / culture guru Matt Mason.
New York #10
November 30, 2010 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Shangri La Studio
100 Sutton St. Greenpoint, Brooklyn
From Pecha Kucha:
“The Sound Dimension”
In the early Oughts, the ubiquitous access to three-dimensional visualization technologies liberated designers form the limitations and legacy of two-dimensional representation. Architects feverishly took to these advancements applying them towards spatial applications, and with these tools, critiquing data and reinterpreting form and surface quickly became old-hat exercises in the initial, more free-wheeling schematic design process. These technologies nurtured a significant advancement in building a more multi-layered, responsive, and dynamic approach to visualization.
Not content to stop at 3 dimensions designers are exploring how to integrate in their creative vocabulary and toolset new elements for representation. What elements of inspiration are now begin explored, adopted, integrated? Specifically how is visualization inspired by other dimensions and senses such as sound and in particular music? In what ways can the immateriality of sound influence and translate into the world of physical design?
Pecha Kucha #10 will serve as an exploration of how sound, a seemingly visual abstraction (or distraction), can serve as the foundation to informing, visualizing, or connecting to architectural and graphic space.
PROJECT CREDIT »
Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
David Farnsworth, the structural engineer we’re working with from Arup New York, won the gold prize at this weekend’s Smart Geometry conference by producing a parametric model of the tower I’m designing at Asymptote. Using Bentley’s Generative Components (beta) he was able to resolve the geometry of the tower’s unique structural system and enable the structure to redistribute itself based on changes to the buildings overall geometry.
The Budapest Bank Tower we designed at Asymptote Architecture has won an international competition that included Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry among others. The tower frames the view across the Danube in an industrial section that is being developed by the Orco Group (the competition organizers). The 30 story tower is designed to incorporate a second tower, to be constructed later, and is set to become the tallest building in Budapest.
The scheme is based on a single line that projects through multiple vectors and is given volume through a series of hyperbolic projections. The building is supported by a two rotating cores and a structural skin that we developed in collaboration with ARUP. The mesh skin is based on experiments we conducted with perforated topologies and aggregation, where a surface would become less perforated under heavier loads and more perforated under light loads.
PROJECT / IMAGE CREDIT »
Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
