@improved » cracking http://improved.ro/blog [a,e] Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:06:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Bucharest Culture Clash http://improved.ro/blog/2010/03/bucharest-culture-clash/ http://improved.ro/blog/2010/03/bucharest-culture-clash/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:57:11 +0000 Dimitrie Andrei Stefanescu http://improved.ro/blog/?p=696 Keywords: fragmentation, cracking, violence, earthquake, identity crisis, culture.

Initial explorations: Culture Cracking.

Bucharest never had a coherent image in any point in history. Its only true comon denominator would be the highly despised disorder generated by the struggle between
western rigor and local chaotic impulses. It is one city where conflict is strikingly out in the open, little existing in maters of interface between old and new, poor and rich, highrise and low-rise. This project taps into these conflicting energies, drawing strength and geometry from them while at the same time exposing them and becoming an icon of their formative power.

A parametric system was designed so as to explore geometrically the proposed metaphor. It allowed for variation (height, rotation, base geometry, floor height, plan
shape) while at the same time providing a rigid framework for the project developement. The parametric system allows for endless variations inside the given parametr space. Final geometry is chosen by evaluating its overall performace at aesthetic level, urban level, construction level, functional level. Ideally, an evolutionary algorithm could have been implemented so as to provide a more streamlined workflow in defining the final shape. Interior spaces were dynamically sculpted using the parametric model – which allowed for real-time visualizations of plan changes in the 3d model (sections, overall).

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