Saturday 17 March 2012

Readings One and Two

Brief Notes which have informed our design


Bure, G. 2008. Paris / La Villette. In. Bernard Tschumi. ed. G. Bure, 47-73. Birkhauser: Basel. 
- "a form of knowledge rather than a knowledge of form" (48)
- exploded diagrams on page 56, we took cues from these exploded axonometric and aim to include these of some sort in final presentation 
- job of the folie is to activate space - our folie needs not only to engage with the site physically, but also with its history and with its users. We plan on making the form of the folie something that can be physically manipulated by the user to encourage the user to repeat visiting.


Tschumi, B., 1987. Cinegram Folie: Le Parc De La Villette, Princeton, N.J: Princeton Architctural Press. pp1-27.  
- "variety of activities will encourage new attitudes and perspectives" (1)
- "a new model in which program, form and ideology all integral roles"(4)
- folie to be motivated by possible technological advances (4)
- la folie is a french term translating to 'madness' or 'insanity' - we were going to follow this line of thinking and produce a folie using high level of technology that surrounded the concept of hallucinations but found that the technology was informing the form, rather than the architecture informing the form and that tying the concept to the site was incredibly difficult (5). 
- framing - sequences, framing technology, space, mixed (12)
- We liked the use of models - physical models and how they created shadows and depth to the folie. We decided to utilise this in our design. (19)

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