Exploratory drawings

City and High School as diagram
The following drawings come from a synthesis of contextual operations in Eisenman's projects.
Rebstockpark - idea of singularity (repetition with difference) also of folding














Eindhoven Railroads - grids over one another till they fold. Pic 1 shows the overlaping grids. Pic 2 shows the intersections with varying intensities.



































Alteka Building - dealing with becoming form where form deforms with each repetition



















City of Culture in Galicia - ground becomes figure, interrupting/confusing with the figure of building

Handbrake Turn

Previously, I had outlined, my contents page and started some exploratory drawings for design. I just had my crit and now I have to make a sudden handbrake turn.

No longer will my design be a high school in the city, instead I will be exploring a high school that is the city. Although, what has not changed is my focus on the formalistic process – but now I have to look at how this process can be adapted at a larger scale to urban design. (Will I be designing architecture?) I don’t aim to build diagrams in the city, but that is what the design seems to be taking me. This turn of events throws half of my thesis research out the window. All the Greg Lynn and digital does not apply, although, looking at his work helps me understand how I can manipulate process.

So for now, I am going to look at design and leave the thesis for a bit.

Design:

The organisation/diagram of my topic will come out of the school’s relationship with the city.

• First, I will look at the industries the city provides in comparison to the subjects offered, this can be cartographic (3D cones)
• Then I might look at the relationships between these industries if any?
• That’s all for now!