Foreign office architects.A diagram is a material organisation that prescribes performance. It does not necessarily contain metric or geometric information. A diagram is able to absorb and embody em·bod·y tr.v. em·bod·ied, em·bod·y·ing, em·bod·ies 1. To give a bodily form to; incarnate. 2. To represent in bodily or material form: increasing levels of complexity and information, without necessarily altering the nature of its performance. However, it is crucial that the performance is clearly determined: diagrammatic operation should not be confused; on the contrary, the diagram is about very precisely knowing at every moment what is the level of determination that we can exert. In a diagrammatic process, the project develops a constant capacity to trigger new virtualities, new possibilities, to keep developing potentially ad infinitum ad in·fi·ni·tum adv. & adj. To infinity; having no end. [Latin ad, to + . Hence, the moment of closure is determined by factors external to the project. It is in the middle of this process that strategies and aims need to be deployed, not at the beginning or the end. We use the diagram very literally as an instrument to determine and explore architectural performance. It does not contain the final formal determinations of the project: there need to be several forms of mediation mediation, in law, type of intervention in which the disputing parties accept the offer of a third party to recommend a solution for their controversy. Mediation has long been a part of international law, frequently involving the use of an international commission, between the form of the diagram and the final form of the building. Yokohama is a pier where you never retrace your steps. The project is generated from a functional diagram that tries to avoid the characteristic linear organisation of a pier. In whatever direction you cross the pier, you will always have the experience that you are not returning. The project's value is placed neither on its formal qualities nor as a cultural statement, but on its spatial performance, and that is why the diagrammatic development is so crucial to the project. In Yokohama, the material 'ground' is deployed to turn the no-return diagram into a three-dimensional diagram. Ergonomic ergonomic - Concerning ergonomics or exhibitting good ergonimics. and functional information are then incorporated in the diagram to determine the scale and geometry of the surface's deformations. Technical information about the scale of the load-bearing structures is also incorporated. Only after the diagram has absorbed all this information, it becomes a drawing, acquiring metrical met·ri·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, or composed in poetic meter: metrical verse; five metrical units in a line. 2. Of or relating to measurement. and geometrical determinations. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FARSHID MOUSSAVI Farshid Moussavi (Born 1965 in Shiraz, Iran) is an internationally recognized Iranian born architect. Educated at Harvard, the University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, and the University of Dundee, she worked with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in and ALEJANDRO ZAERA Alejandro Zaera Polo (Madrid, 1963) is a Spanish architect who has his studio at London. The studio, named FOA (Foreign Office Architects), was funded by him and his wife, Farshid Moussavi, in 1993. POLO, FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS |
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