LYLA+ERIN+HANNAH
Porosity + City
How to open up our solid towers?
Our current cities are comprised of enclosed, distant and introverted architecture equally isolated from urban life and ecological context.
HISTOTICAL RESEARCH
THE ARCADES PROJECT by Walter Benjamin
No previous articulation of the porous nature of architecture however, has ever conceived of or classified a type of architectural permeability, which has arteries of a new classification of space. This new type of space is between public and private
THE LEAP INTO THE VOID PROJECT by Ives Klein
When Ives Klein performed “The Leap into the Void” in 1967, from a brick wall adjacent to the street, he rendered the architecture impotent in relation to the act. In other words, architecture, although deemed solid and eternally strong is actually very weak and plastic by comparison with the idea as represented through performance.
RAISE BY GOODWIN
Goodwin has found “what a building desires” to do next in its determination to facilitate new technologies, new building-to-building connections and demands on its program.
POROCITY BY THE WHY FACTORY
Goodwin has found “what a building desires” to do next in its determination to facilitate new technologies, new building-to-building connections and demands on its program.
TECHNICAL ASPECT OF THE CITY
-Aesthetics
-Sliced Porosity Block
-Method of calculating “porocity”
Aesthetics
Porosity can be understood as a medium: they allow substances to pass through, such as ensuring photosynthesis of plants and human sweating. Therefore, from the urban perspective, porosity is essential for maintaining health and sustainability. They are built-in media that regulate circulation and exchange, balance inequality, and ensure the sustainability of cities.
Sliced Porosity Block
-Sliced Porosity Block
-Steven Holl
-Chengdu
A public square composed of five towers, but still considered a more public area
Urban skyscrapers
Porosity calculated by precise solar angle geometry
Minimal impact on surrounding urban space
Method of calculating “porocity”
VOXEL
In 3D computer graphics, a voxel represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space. As with pixels in a 2D bitmap, voxels themselves do not typically have their position (ie coordinates) explicitly encoded with their values. Instead, rendering systems infer the position of a voxel based upon its position relative to other voxels.
Theory – Discrete Arch.
Discrete in architecture
-This terminology derives from the method call discrete manufacturing, which is a way of manufacturing products and elements in orders for it to have a singular purpose only.
-The process of Discrete Manufacturing will allow for the usage of only required materials to the exact specifications in order to make the product work.
Discrete Fabrication
&
Digital materials
-Reversible
-Reassembled
-Use flexibly
-Fast assembly and disassembly
Discreteness & Automation
Use robotic to connect discrete architecture and construction
Can accelerate the process to assemble the architectural system
Semblr, a project developed by Ivo Tedbury, proposes a distributed robot
Contrast Discrete vs Process
Discrete
Involves using specifications to achieve a specific product
The parts that produced are called components
There has a database of holding serials numbers
Process
Involves mass production of parts that are cut from the same material
The products can be resting on a shelf ready for customers to purchase
the example can be bricks, steel and concrete blocks
LEGO-LIKE WOODEN PAVILION BY GILLES RETSIN
Exterior plywood (3.3 x 1.35 m)
Over 380 m2 of plywood was cut and assembled into 80 building blocks.
The blocks can be quickly assembled on site, using only a set of ratchet-spanners and bolts.
The digital workflow behind the pavilion enables a low-cost, fast and open production-chain.
layout: minimal title: “Porocity” permalink: https://steenblikrs.github.io/2021-Spring-Studio/Research/Porocity