The following video was presented as slides to discuss "precedent" in terms of methodological underpinnings. The presentation began with a walk-through of three main terms: collaboration, pattern, topology. The topology section outlined philosophical and formal precedents which contribute to my working understanding of my approach to the praxis of the thesis. The discussion concluded with two examples of realized projects with similar program which seem to embody some of the qualitative aspects of the proposed research.
The title still goes by (but may change in the next 60 hours):
a topological study of an architecture of empowerment
The Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center Research & Prototype Laboratory
Collinsville, Connecticut
2.27.2008
-appendix i-
WEEK 1 – COPENHAGEN : PUBLIC SPACE, PUBLIC LIVING
Interview/Critique/Academy
Danish Architecture Center (Dansk Arkitektur Center)
University Center for Public Space Research (School of Architecture)
Center for Industrial Architecture
Center for Design Research
JDS Architects
BIG Architects
Urban Analysis
Metro Copenhagen (various stations, especially those by KHRAS) – 2002
Public Baths (Svomehal)
Tivoli
Site Visits
Terminal 3 Copenhagen Airport – Vilhelm Lauritzen (1998)
Skt. Petri’s Church – (1450)
Stelling Building – Arne Jacobsen (1938)
City Hall and Courthouse – Hansen (1815)
The Royal Library Extension - schmidt hammer lassen K/S (1993)
Danish Broadcasting Corporation Concert Hall - Jean Nouvel (2008)
Netbureau Araneum Headquarters (hi-tech), Building 90, Holmen - Søren Robert Lund
The Opera House - Henning Larsens Tegnestue Architects (2004)
Royal Theater Playhouse – Boje Lundgaard & Lene Tranberg
Danish Jewish Museum – Daniel Libeskind (2004)
Maritime Youth House – Plot (JDS + BIG) (2004)
Ordrupgaard – Zaha Hadid (2005)
Sjaxxet Community Building – BIG (2007)
Further Afield
Church at Bagsvaerd (outside of Copenhagen, Denmark) – Jorn Utzon (1976)
Paustian Showroom – Jorn Utzon
Bellevue Theater – Arne Jacobsen (1937)
Gruntvigs Church – Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1940)
Ørestaden (new town – Liebskind, Plot, etc.)
*
TRAVEL – COPENHAGEN TO STUTTGART, via Berlin, Leipzig
*
WEEK 2 – STUTTGART : FUEL CELL INDUSTRIAL
Interview/Critique/Academy
Behnisch Architekten (e.g. Biologix Headquarters, Harvard-Allston Science Complex)
Wenzel + Wenzel Architekten
Research Institutions
Fraunhofer-Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Institute of Physical Electronics, Stuttgart University
Institute for Energy and Rational Systems, Stuttgart University
Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Baden-Württemberg
Site Visits
Hysolar Research Building, Gunter Behnisch 1987
House at Weisenhof, Le Corbusier 1927
Neue Staatsgalerie, James Stirling 1983
Neues Mercedes Benz Museum, UNStudio 2006
Fuel Cell Enterprises in the Region
Ballard Power Systems GmbH
DaimlerChrysler AG
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg
ESCUBE GmbH
EvoBus GmbH
Fuel Cell Power Systems AG
FuMaTech GmbH
Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co.
Mahler AGS
Mann + Hummel GmbH
Modine Europe GmbH
Neoplan Stuttgart, Gottlob Auwärter GmbH & Co. KG
Quintech e.K.
SMART Electronic Develeopment GmbH
XCELLSIS GmbH
Further Afield
Berlin, Germany
BMW Plant, Liepzig Germany – Zaha Hadid
BMW Welt, Munich, Germany – COOPHIMMELB(L)AU
Basel, Switzerland
Ronchamp, France
Paris, France
Interview/Critique/Academy
Danish Architecture Center (Dansk Arkitektur Center)
University Center for Public Space Research (School of Architecture)
Center for Industrial Architecture
Center for Design Research
JDS Architects
BIG Architects
Urban Analysis
Metro Copenhagen (various stations, especially those by KHRAS) – 2002
Public Baths (Svomehal)
Tivoli
Site Visits
Terminal 3 Copenhagen Airport – Vilhelm Lauritzen (1998)
Skt. Petri’s Church – (1450)
Stelling Building – Arne Jacobsen (1938)
City Hall and Courthouse – Hansen (1815)
The Royal Library Extension - schmidt hammer lassen K/S (1993)
Danish Broadcasting Corporation Concert Hall - Jean Nouvel (2008)
Netbureau Araneum Headquarters (hi-tech), Building 90, Holmen - Søren Robert Lund
The Opera House - Henning Larsens Tegnestue Architects (2004)
Royal Theater Playhouse – Boje Lundgaard & Lene Tranberg
Danish Jewish Museum – Daniel Libeskind (2004)
Maritime Youth House – Plot (JDS + BIG) (2004)
Ordrupgaard – Zaha Hadid (2005)
Sjaxxet Community Building – BIG (2007)
Further Afield
Church at Bagsvaerd (outside of Copenhagen, Denmark) – Jorn Utzon (1976)
Paustian Showroom – Jorn Utzon
Bellevue Theater – Arne Jacobsen (1937)
Gruntvigs Church – Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint (1940)
Ørestaden (new town – Liebskind, Plot, etc.)
*
TRAVEL – COPENHAGEN TO STUTTGART, via Berlin, Leipzig
*
WEEK 2 – STUTTGART : FUEL CELL INDUSTRIAL
Interview/Critique/Academy
Behnisch Architekten (e.g. Biologix Headquarters, Harvard-Allston Science Complex)
Wenzel + Wenzel Architekten
Research Institutions
Fraunhofer-Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Institute of Physical Electronics, Stuttgart University
Institute for Energy and Rational Systems, Stuttgart University
Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Baden-Württemberg
Site Visits
Hysolar Research Building, Gunter Behnisch 1987
House at Weisenhof, Le Corbusier 1927
Neue Staatsgalerie, James Stirling 1983
Neues Mercedes Benz Museum, UNStudio 2006
Fuel Cell Enterprises in the Region
Ballard Power Systems GmbH
DaimlerChrysler AG
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg
ESCUBE GmbH
EvoBus GmbH
Fuel Cell Power Systems AG
FuMaTech GmbH
Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co.
Mahler AGS
Mann + Hummel GmbH
Modine Europe GmbH
Neoplan Stuttgart, Gottlob Auwärter GmbH & Co. KG
Quintech e.K.
SMART Electronic Develeopment GmbH
XCELLSIS GmbH
Further Afield
Berlin, Germany
BMW Plant, Liepzig Germany – Zaha Hadid
BMW Welt, Munich, Germany – COOPHIMMELB(L)AU
Basel, Switzerland
Ronchamp, France
Paris, France
Research Travel Proposal ver2.0
-draft 2.0-
PROPOSAL
A study of places of collaboration in Copehagen, Denmark, and Stuttgart, Germany.
OBJECTIVE
This proposal is in support of travel through northern Europe to study progressive and archetypal places of collaboration. Acknowledging “collaboration” as both a human activity and an architectural “manipulation”, the investigation is qualified in terms of active relationships, of modes of exchange, of interface. These relationships include the familiar human to human and the industrial machine to human. Another layer of relationship investigated is that among program types, that is, the collaboration, or in this case perhaps “overlap”, of conceptual boundaries of typical isolated realms, such as industry and education, or generation and consumption.
The documentation of site visits and interviews will produce a robust analysis of a precedent set beyond simply that of typology, one that addresses methodology and the nature of a framed human engagement in constructed places. Documentation will be collected through field sketching, photography, and videography.
PROPOSED ITINERARY
The politics and economics of Northern Europe have supported an accelerated advancement of both the technical and social praxes of collaboration. There is an extremely long list of potential places and cities to visit. This proposed itinerary prioritizes a practical few, with the expectation that as conditions of the research develop, the list may also subtly evolve (within the constraints of the proposal).
The itinerary will consist of two phases. The first is to include a multi-day extended study of Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen continues to develop a civic culture that fosters a consciousness of collaboration as groups of people, as well as a human collaboration with resources. Copenhagen supports both public and private space to support this cultural priority.
The second phase will feature an extended study of Stuttgart, Germany. Germany, too, has encouraged aggressive study and implementation of technical collaboration innovation, and the state of Baden-Württemberg in particular has attracted a concentration of fuel cell developers and producers. A variety of facilities for research and manufacturing exemplify these public initiatives.
-see appendix i for elaborated itinerary-
RELATION TO CURRENT SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
This research will be conducted as an integral component to my current thesis for the degree of Master of Architecture from the University of Maryland: “A Topological Study of an Architecture of Empowerment”. The programmatic vehicle of this study is a proposed Global Fuel Cell Research Center situated among a former riverside industrial complex from the early 1800’s. As a public institution, the nature of research, testing, and education is concerned with shared knowledge, specifically engaging the industry and research with citizens in a mutually constructive manner. The nature of fuel cell technology requires research in a variety of scalar conditions, from the individual, to a nesting, to a network. Finally, the perspective a topological methodology will assume is one where there is the potential for all systems, both human and man-made, to embody a logic of continuity, of folded experiences, of a collaboration of knowledge, place, form, and space.
PROPOSAL
A study of places of collaboration in Copehagen, Denmark, and Stuttgart, Germany.
OBJECTIVE
This proposal is in support of travel through northern Europe to study progressive and archetypal places of collaboration. Acknowledging “collaboration” as both a human activity and an architectural “manipulation”, the investigation is qualified in terms of active relationships, of modes of exchange, of interface. These relationships include the familiar human to human and the industrial machine to human. Another layer of relationship investigated is that among program types, that is, the collaboration, or in this case perhaps “overlap”, of conceptual boundaries of typical isolated realms, such as industry and education, or generation and consumption.
The documentation of site visits and interviews will produce a robust analysis of a precedent set beyond simply that of typology, one that addresses methodology and the nature of a framed human engagement in constructed places. Documentation will be collected through field sketching, photography, and videography.
PROPOSED ITINERARY
The politics and economics of Northern Europe have supported an accelerated advancement of both the technical and social praxes of collaboration. There is an extremely long list of potential places and cities to visit. This proposed itinerary prioritizes a practical few, with the expectation that as conditions of the research develop, the list may also subtly evolve (within the constraints of the proposal).
The itinerary will consist of two phases. The first is to include a multi-day extended study of Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen continues to develop a civic culture that fosters a consciousness of collaboration as groups of people, as well as a human collaboration with resources. Copenhagen supports both public and private space to support this cultural priority.
The second phase will feature an extended study of Stuttgart, Germany. Germany, too, has encouraged aggressive study and implementation of technical collaboration innovation, and the state of Baden-Württemberg in particular has attracted a concentration of fuel cell developers and producers. A variety of facilities for research and manufacturing exemplify these public initiatives.
-see appendix i for elaborated itinerary-
RELATION TO CURRENT SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
This research will be conducted as an integral component to my current thesis for the degree of Master of Architecture from the University of Maryland: “A Topological Study of an Architecture of Empowerment”. The programmatic vehicle of this study is a proposed Global Fuel Cell Research Center situated among a former riverside industrial complex from the early 1800’s. As a public institution, the nature of research, testing, and education is concerned with shared knowledge, specifically engaging the industry and research with citizens in a mutually constructive manner. The nature of fuel cell technology requires research in a variety of scalar conditions, from the individual, to a nesting, to a network. Finally, the perspective a topological methodology will assume is one where there is the potential for all systems, both human and man-made, to embody a logic of continuity, of folded experiences, of a collaboration of knowledge, place, form, and space.
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