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Friday, December 13, 2013
Parametricism
We are now live in the time of post Fordism. It is the
era of people use thing differently. In Fordism period people use everything
the same because it is the age of mass production. Technology back then does
not allow us to have a lot of choices. But now as the new technologies were
invented, people are allowed to choose or even custom made thing. If we talk
about Fordism, we would think of Ford car the model T. In the past the model T
has came out in only two colors. But now people can buy car in any color as
they wish or even has a custom painted car.
Beside the example of something tangible like car,
another example can be found on the virtual, Internet search. In every computer
has it’s own DNA. That DNA is the memory of the usage of each computer. From
the example in the class, Ajarn Taylor searched the word Jordan and let us
searched it as well. He got the result came out to be about Michael Jordan but
many of us got the country Jordan or Air Jordan. Another one is key word that
we searched in class was meaning of life. For me the first thing that I got
after the search is Mormon.org because I have a lot of connection to mormons. But
for others got something like movie or something else. So the technology allow
the market to be more customize according to how the customer wants
Parametricism is a new style for architecture that
derives the form from the parameter of the field. Parameters in every field are
distinctive. Even that the site stay empty but what is never empty is the field
it is why the parameter can be extracted from the field. Every single element
of fenestration may be different sizes according to how we want it to be
according to the parameter and our intention. In addition, because of the
advancement in technology that was stated above, it allowed us to have the
custom made window frame. So the parametric building is design for only one
particular site because it comes from the parameter of the field surround.
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| Guang Zhou Opera House, Zaha Hadid |
Object
As the last blog, which I talk about system, I stated
that we all have the interaction with others not only organism but also other
objects as well. Object could make us
behave some certain way because our perceptions were frame according to the
usage of the object that we saw.
A door, we all know that it is an architectural object
that meant to be a threshold. All we have to do to walk through it is to push
or to pull to open it. And we all know that it is a responsibility of a person
to close the door that he or she open.
The door that is left open would annoy to other people within the space.
As I stated earlier, the door meant to be a threshold but so is the arches. One
thing that make it different from the arches is it can be close to give the
privacy to people that live inside the space, it can protect those people from
weather, pollution or any unpleasant things. It is our perception that makes us
feels annoy to the fact that the door is left open. From that we hire people to
only open and close the door and these people are doormen. Or we even invent
the sensor that could open the door. People can never satisfy by the object
itself. They always fine the discomfit in the object and develop it to become
even more comfortable to any kind of users.
I’m just thinking of what I have learned so far in
this class. I think this class has greatly impacted on me. I once think that
everything that is visible is real but they are not. As I look back and rethink
of every theory that Ajarn Taylor, object has a strong relationship on how our
perceptions were frame. In post-modern world that we are living in, people do
care about how they look more than who they really are. Moreover, they even use
that as a standard to judge people at first sight. There is no surprise for me
to see that people in my age pick a guy to date by his look rather than his
soul. People care so much about the appearance because it frames their personal
images. In other term, we are trapped under the power of the materialistic.
System
No one can survive in the world alone. No matter how
good that person is, he still needs to interconnect with another living
organism. Because every organism living on this planet is a part of a system
call ecology. It is a big system that one needs another in order to survive.
Nothing is autonomous.
Every matter has its own potential to become something
in community because there is “system” that gives the matter to become
something. System makes the matters become form. There are two ways to look at
the system, which are holistic view and ecological view. To view the object
holistically is to look the system within the object. The example is to look at
a bicycle, and see how each component allow another component to move and how
that component drives the bicycle to move. Another way to look at the bicycle in
a bigger picture, this way of looking is to look it ecologically. To see how
the bicycle are made. To see how the making of bicycle affects another thing or
to see where each component comes from.
To see things ecologically can also be categorized
into two: shallow ecology and deep ecology. Shallow ecology is to look at the
system without concerning about human. It is the way to see the system of how
everything connects but excluding human. On the other hand, deep ecology is to
look at the system that includes human as one of the factor. Human are the one
who makes changes ecologically around the world. We interrupted the system with
the new technology we invented, which it creates a great ecological impact.
The system causes us to look at the world differently
causes our perception to be different same as palimpsest that we write on top
of it.
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