Stefan Behnisch.In general, diagrams and sketches explain and highlight a design idea quite well; if done properly, they get well to the point. Like caricatures, they will focus on the general idea. There is a verbal equivalent to this that will, if done properly, describe a design concept in just very few words. This is comparable to advertising; the best ones having the fewest words. A great one-line in our office, a verbal one-liner, was 'glittering by day, illuminated il·lu·mi·nate v. il·lu·mi·nat·ed, il·lu·mi·nat·ing, il·lu·mi·nates v.tr. 1. To provide or brighten with light. 2. To decorate or hang with lights. 3. at night' for the Bristol Project. These words we had borrowed and bent from one of my father's projects, the Olympic facilities in Munich. The four diagrams illustrated, were drawn spontaneously in lectures to explain designed or realised projects. (I have one of those nifty laptops where you can scribble scribble - To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core. or draw or write on the screen; I use it extensively.) Fig a, the Genzyme Center in Cambridge, MA, USA; fig b, Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover; fig c, the Universe Paradise, a theme park originally for Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . [FIGURE A OMITTED] In the diagrams for the IBN IBN Internet Business Network IBN Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology IBN Institut Belge de Normalisation IBN Islamic Broadcasting Network IBN Integrated Business Network IBN Identification Beacon IBN Isolated Bonding Network institute competition, fig d, our all-time favourites, we tried to explain concepts and atmospheres rather than the design. We won this competition and realised the project. [FIGURE B OMITTED] Finally the collages seek to clarify a thought. Almost naive naive - Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't "really good" in the appropriate sense). , they might cause people to rethink re·think tr. & intr.v. re·thought , re·think·ing, re·thinks To reconsider (something) or to involve oneself in reconsideration. re the obvious. They work best if they show the obvious and use examples from daily life. In general, I believe that the better the diagram, the clearer the concept, the stronger the design, and the better it survives the battles of implementation and realisation. STEFAN BEHNISCH of BEHNISCH, BEHNISCH & PARTNER [FIGURE C OMITTED] [FIGURE D OMITTED] |
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