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Built : the hidden stories behind our structures
\"While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is constructed upon, or how it remains standing. [In this book, the author] explains how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach into the sky\"--Amazon.com.
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Experimental Structural Model: From Manual Paper Garment to Fabrication as an Architectural Practice-Based Approach for Fashion Design Education
The study presents the integration of architectural design approaches in the fashion design process suggesting a new educational method based on structural model fabrication. The paper addresses the output of an experimental collaborative practice-based workshop titled ‘Fashion Clash’ that mixes both architects and fashion designers. The workshop focused on testing self-structural garments following a manual workflow which is divided into three main phases, (1) modeling and form-finding, (2) assembly, and (3) fabrication. Paper-based materials are used for transforming full-scale garments into textiles. The results presented seven garments displayed at a fashion show that show the effect of the folding techniques in reaching stability and highlighting the interdisciplinary integration of architects and fashion designers. The study concludes that implementing a parametric design logic based on architectural perspective in fashion would generate innovative ways of testing self-supporting geometry. Digitally computing the forces and structure before fabrication are left for further research.
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Reciprocal Systems Based on Planar Elements: Morphology and Design Explorations
The concept of transferring forces in a reciprocal way has always been related to the use of timber beams, that is, elongated elements. However, planar components can also be considered; circular tiles, squares, triangles and more articulated or irregular geometrical shapes are all valid alternatives. This report proposes an initial exploration of reciprocal systems based on planar elements in order to guide further morphological studies. It also presents some prototypes, which were developed by the students of the École des Ponts in Paris during two design workshops run in 2012 and 2013.
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Three-Dimensionality in Reciprocal Structures: Concepts and Generative Rules
Reciprocal systems based on superimposition joints, i.e. where un-notched bars sits on the top or in the bottom of each other, could be regarded as being intrinsically three-dimensional because of their natural out-of plane development. This paper presents seven of these three-dimensional configurations, conceived and built by the students of the Master of Science in “Architectural Design” at Aalborg University. They have been developed as an integral part of a 2-week workshop, organized and run by the authors during the fall semester 2011. Since physical models are instruments that trigger the exploration of new typologies because of the direct interaction they provide with the designer the students were called to deal with the issue of three-dimensionality in reciprocal systems through scale models and actual scale prototypes.
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Leonardo 2013, 3-5 June 2013, Perdizes, Portugal
A three-day workshop on the design and construction of reciprocal structures allowed a group of international scholars to experiment with and exchange ideas about dome structures inspired by the designs of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Letter from the Guest Editor: Reciprocal Structures, An Overview
Guest editor Alberto Pugnale introduces the theme of and contributors to special issue of the
Nexus Network Journal
dedicated to Reciprocal structures.
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Science and the building of a new Japan
This book highlights the importance of individuals in the shaping of postwar Japan by providing an historical account of how physicists constituted an influential elite. An history of science perspective provides insight into their role, helping us to understand the hybrid identity of Japanese scientists, and how they reinvented not only themselves, but also Japan. The book is special in that it uses the history of science to deal with issues relating to Japanese identity, and how it was transformed in the decades after Japan's defeat. It explores the lives and work of seven physicists, two of whom were Nobel prize winners. It makes use of little-known Occupation period documents, personal papers of physicists, and Japanese language source material.
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Saarinen’s Shell Game: Tensions, Structures, and Sounds at MIT
For all of the criticism of Eero Saarinen’s Kresge Auditorium and MIT Chapel, they exist as a highly focused moment of deliberate experimentation with geometric form in materials old and new which both contrasted the typical forms of rational modernism and resonated deeply with the modernist quest for the incorporation of novel structures. This paper explores the metaphorical and literal tensions through three dichotomies: geometrical ones with implications for acoustics, programmatic ones with implications for use, and structural ones between the appearances and actual structural actions of the architecture. I seek to illuminate how the geometric issues of both buildings relate to structural optimization. I also approach the Auditorium and Chapel from the roles of having been a performer and composer of instrumental and vocal music for both spaces while earning degrees at MIT in architecture. The simple act of listening defies one’s typical expectations in both spaces, and the dichotomies of geometry, use, and structure illuminate the relationship of sound to place in these architectural spaces.
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Creativity and Academic Activism
This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions. Often adopting narrative approaches, the contributors examine how effective programmes and activities are built in varying local and national contexts within a common global regime of university management policy. Here they share experiences based on developing new undergraduate degrees, setting up research centers and postgraduate schools, editing field-shaping book series and journals, establishing international artist-in-residence programs and founding social activist networks. This book also investigates the impact of managerialism, marketization and globalization on university cultures, asking what critical cultural scholarship can do in such increasingly adversarial conditions. Experiments in Asian universities are emphasized as exemplary of what can or could be achieved in other contexts of globalized university policy. Contributors include Tony Bennett, Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Douglas Crimp, Dai Jinhua, John Nguyet Erni, Josephine Ho, Koichi Iwabuchi, Tejaswini Niranjana, Wang Xiaoming, and Audrey Yue.
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