They involve imaginary processes of all kinds as well as activities and desires of real persons, among them also the architect himself. What is OMA?, (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2003) In order to ‘subvert any narrow definition of architecture’ it is supposed to be a ‘critical discipline’ and a ‘literary activity’ too.Ħ Rem Koolhaas in conversation with Franziska Bollerey, ‘…immer wieder eine Mischung von Verführung und Ungenießbarkeit ins Spiel bringen’, Bauwelt 17/18 (1987), 628, 633 For almost all design projects he creates plots – dramas, fairy tales, diary notes et cetera – which interweave contextual facts and myths that often go beyond architecture. See as substitute for many others: Véronique Patteeuw (ed.), Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Rem Koolhaas – the former scriptwriter – uses writing as a crucial technique within the design process.ĥ Rem Koolhaas’ writings are characterised as ‘unique quality’ of his work. There are technical and theoretical answers to it. But how does an architectural design take effect at a date in the past? And why should Koolhaas be interested in the past rather than in the future? But this is already one of the troubling theoretical questions. However, if we look at the term’s common meaning (‘to take effect at a date in the past’ģ Webster’s New Encyclopedic Dictionary (New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 1995), 871) it seems to be clear what a ‘Retroactive Manifesto’ might be: rewriting the history of a city in order to unveil certain (unconscious) desires, ideas, theories.Ĥ It does not necessarily mean: inventing the history of a city anew. A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978) It is well known that the book has worked (and probably still works) as a kind of stone quarry of creative ideas, methods and techniques for Koolhaas and his office team the ‘grid’, the ‘skyscraper theorem’, ‘Bigness’ or the Paranoic-Critical-Method are introduced and adopted as design concepts, and so is ‘retroactive’ – which even directly refers to the book’s subtitle, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. Obviously, the key to this key project is the term ‘retroactive’ which links it with Delirious New York published just one year before the Boombjes study.Ģ Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York. ‘It was OMA’s first retroactive concept.’ġ Rem Koolhaas / Bruce Mau, S,M,L,XL (Rotterdam: 010 publishers, 1995), 543 In S,M,L,XL Rem Koolhaas presents the design study for a high-rise structure at Boompjes in Rotterdam as key project of his early years as a professional architect. The final result is a clean diagram that organizes a lot of information into a clear and concise graphic.OMA (1975), triptych, Boompjes Tower Slab, 1982. Finally, lower the opacity of the text or set the layer blend mode to “Overlay”. Then, hold “Ctrl” while picking the corners will allow you to distort the text as need to get the correct perspective. Ctrl+T will bring up the transform option. To define use of each element, I added text and distorted it to the perspective of the image. Also with a soft paintbrush and really low opacity, I painted some color over the entire image to get rid of the desaturated look of the grey background. I next set the layer blend mode of those 3 layers to “Overlay”. To do this, I created 3 new layers and painted over the program elements. I next wanted to break the program up into 3 categories: Public, Semi-Public, and Private spaces. To get the volumetric text, I used the “3D Text” tool, then stretched the words to the correct area and height.Īs with a lot of my stuff, I began by rendering the SU model in Sketchup as a clay model. I didn’t create a full fledged tutorial, but the following images explain the big moves from Sketchup to final diagram Even better, the process of taking this information from Sketchup to a presentable diagram was quick and easy. meters) of the defined programmatic element, but also takes into account height needs and vertical relationships. Each volume contains the correct square footage (or sq. Experimenting with different arrangements and adjacencies of programmatic needs in Sketchup proved to be an effective tool in the preliminary design process. I’ve been putting together some program diagrams for work, and it reminded me of one that I created a year and a half ago in grad school.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |