SANAA Diagrams

Conceptual Designand Diagrams

Christiane M Herr何淨植

Course Overview

0: Introduction Course1: Introduction Diagrams and Conceptual Design

2: A Brief History of Diagrams3: Explanatory Diagrams4: Generative Diagrams5+6: Digital Diagrams

7: Diagram Architecture8: Architectural Design Without Diagrams

9: Review & Summary

10: mapping and site analysis quick introduction10-14: diagram-based conceptual design project15: presentation of conceptual design projects

OMA: Museum Plaza

Diagram Architecture

What is it?


diagrams for generating

architectural ideas

OCEAN – Michael Hensel


What is it?


diagrams for explaining architectural ideas

Diagram to Architecture

Diagrams are abstract. To become architecture, they are translated into form.

Conceptual Design Process:Separation of Idea and Form

OMA:Seattle Public Library:Programme driven design

Diagrams Become Architecture

Translating into ‘plain form’

OMA:Seattle Public Library:Data driven design

Diagrams Become Architecture

rational cause and effect translation: the diagram is the architecture

OMA:Seattle Public Library Diagrams Become Architecture

the diagram is the architecture, the diagram is a translation of the brief

OMA: Museum Plaza


What is it?

Diagram Architecture?DiagramArchitecture

Form merges with diagram

Diagram to Architecture

Need for translation process?

Extending the Conceptual Design Process:No Separation of Idea and Form

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Is it a diagram? Is it architecture?

Suspending translation

Sejima & Nish izawa(SANAA):21st century museumKanazawa, Japan


Suspending Translation

Sejima & Nish izawa(SANAA):21st century museumKanazawa, Japan



Sejima & Nish izawa(SANAA):New Museum of Contemporary ArtNew York



Sejima & Nish izawa(SANAA):Glass PavilionToledo Museum of Art



Sejima & Nish izawa(SANAA):Rolex Learning Centre



Shigeru BanCurtain Wall House Diagram Architecture


Toyo ItoSendai MediathequeSendai, Japan









Junya Ishigami



Sejima & Nish izawa(SANAA):Serpentine Pavilion


Architecture of Thinness

Sejima & Nish izawa(SANAA):Barcelona Pavilion: Installation


Architecture of Thinness

Superflat

Art and Architecture of Thinness

Ryue Nishizawa:

Historically, architects must relate to aspects of the surroundings, but that has always focused on real things such as material or shape. I think that today, almost half of our daily life is occupied by information society, and although information society is invisible, I think that architecture must have some sort of relationship with such a society. And I don't know what type of answer there might be, but I think that there must be some intersecting possibilities for change.

I: Is there a relationship between the information society and the idea of thinness?

Kazuyo Sejima:

Yes there is, but I don't know exactly how. In order to think about the information society there seems to be a relationship to the idea of dimension or the effect of the mass or the volume on us. But it also relates to the reflective quality of glass as well, as opposed to its transparent quality.

Superflat


Superflat: art movement founded by Takashi Murakami

Superflat is a forthright embrace of a non-ideological future of small things of desire and fascination

Takashi MurakamiRin Nadeshico

Superflat


Chiho Aoshima


Suspending translation

Ito and Sejima approach the discourse of the diagram in a way that goes beyond the confines of its dualistic constructions. With no regret, Sejima confronts the fact that her architectural drawings have become diagrams.

When the diagram is approached as the necessary product of an idea, it perpetrates a betrayal. For the moment the diagram is materialized, it is unable to keep the promises of its originating program. Subjects constantly see, do, and say things unpronounced in the program, using the architecturla instruments for purposes contrary to its 'idea'.

Hyungmin Pai, Discourse of the Diagram

MAD architects:Contemporary Chinatown Diagram Architecture

Reading form as diagram

MAD architects:Contemporary Chinatown Diagram Architecture

Reading form as diagram



Concept > Diagram > Architecture

DiagramArchitecture

All form can be read as diagram!

Brief for design project:

Create a (conceptual) design proposal forThe NCKU university campus as a

garden for cultivating minds

1. Site analysis2. Concept proposal

Documents

SANAA Diagrams