Urban Computing

Part 2 on Windows

A little more on windows:

Matta-Clark
cuttings: buildings as medium
similar to graffiti in it’s response to building, means of response
powerful
inside/outside

San Emilion Cathedral
3 specific parts of how the church was created:
first when cut into raw earth and rock
second the mining of same to build upper layer
third to create the most refined tower
Refinement literally seen over time

England Window tax (1696-1851): taxing on amount of windows in your home.
measurement for income taxes. more windows = more wealth
surface area and transparency
windows = wealth
once a system has been made, the option is given to find a way around it (and creating a less boolean window state)
gaming the system: fake windows made alongside real glass windows (I have money, but to the government have fewer)

Institute of the Arab World
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/L_Institut_du_Monde_Arabe.html
by Jean Nouvel
taking off the understand that there can be no symbols of religion
all apertures running on servos: creating a wall of moving adaptation to sunlight
made with Saudi oil money
never really worked as it’s supposed to
sunshade in Arabic architecture (intense sunlight) totally different than Paris’ more overcast weather, which creates a bit of a disconnect

“graceful degradation” - structure that is dependent on something that falls apart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault-tolerant_system

Sol LeWitt
minimalism in architecture
his sculptures are built on the cube: remanufacturing and replicability

Hanz Haacke
Condensation Cube
“tripping minimalism on its way out the door”
plexi -glass cube with a little water in it and the gallery settings with audience/users presence
creating it to be responsive system
effected specifically by users before Arduino’s and the Wooden Mirror :-P

Dan Graham
Changing the every day just a little to bring consideration and meaning
“Taking a quote from the everyday world and turning it into a poem” - KS
interest in drawing attention to every day
proposal to make a suburban house with an entire glass wall

Glass House
by Philip Johnson
“My favorite gay Nazi”
primary feature is the view of and out of the house
pushes the architecture from the walls of the house to the trees surrounding
landscaped the forest as the architecture

adding anything to minimalism is Baroque (sensability)

Fred Ginger buildings
Bilbao by Ghery is only possible because of curved and bezier lines

Ron Mueck
how we regard strangers - KG’s take on his work
sensation of being able to regard
extreme psychic conditions
partially feels good because of looking like a child

impossible to scrutinize everything [like a child] in an urban setting due to mass and kind of stimuli, but also allows

Rear Window by Hitchcock
isolation and stimulation
looked at same time as Jane Jacobs