PHYSICAL vs.

IMPLIED BOUNDARIES Form-Finding Strategies & Variables

Dimitar Dobrev AA Dip 3 2013/14

STRATEGIES FOR COMPLEX GEOMETRIES Form-Finding

Surfaces are shaped through a manipulation of the boundary conditions

PLOT, VM Houses, 2005

REDEFINING BOUNDARIES Simple Mathematical Geometries

Rotation

Tiling - repetition & modularity

Subdividing space

TRANSFORMING PRECEDENTS The diagram does not dictate the end product of the process,it simply informs it. Peter Eisenman

Transposing Organizational Strategies

Stan Allen, Field Conditions Diagrams

Extending Organizational Strategies

The grid has historically proven to be particularly effective field operation, extending a framework accross a vast surface for flexible & changing development over time. This organisation lends legbility and order to the surface while allowing for the authonomy and individuality of each part, and remaining open to permutations over time. James Corner, Terra Fluxius, The Landscape Urbanism Reader

Urban Grid Typologies

Radient City Frei Otto, Occupation & Connection Diagrams

Mies City

Delirious New York

Super Studio City

Zaha Hadid City

Computational Figurations - Stanley Tigerman and G.L. Crabtree (The Linked Form), 1975

OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES Cracking Recursive Forms - Diversity in Similarity

Evolving Geometries - Recursion of shapes in various scales

When several of these branchingsystems coexist, their collision results in a certain geometry or boundary which can resemble that of cracking patterns.

Nested Tetrahedrons Arrayed in Dodecahedron 'Wrapper' (5 tetrahedrons in each group)

Floret Geodesic Tiling {1,0} {1,1} {3,2} {2,0} {4,1} {3,1} {2,1} {2,2} {5,0} {4,0} {3,0}

OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES Morphogenesis - Expression of Rigidity & Flexibility

TRANSFORMING PRECEDENTS Contreolled vs. Uncontrolled Spaces

Melun-Senart-OMA Competition, Paris

Venice Hospital, Le Corbusier

INSTANTS OF URBAN INTERIORITY

Transitional Perspectival Spaces - Capturing Light & Reflections

I am interested in depicting both urban & interior qualities at the same time within one single space/object/setting. A simple change of the focus creates this ambiguous transitional space between urban interior, public & private. The photograph represents both the urbanity with its vividness and lively atmosphere, and shows interior qualities, creating this intimate private setting within the same space. In a w this photo represents a dialogue between two identical forms, appearing at times monolithic and dynamically translucent, changing over the course of a day.