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Glocalization: (global+local) Products made for global market but customized to suit local culture. As the markets are becoming more dynamic, products are in continuous transformation and there is no more production of repetitive kind. Mass customization has become an emergent culture

Creeping featurism: Making a system more and more complex by adding features to it.

For mapping Ben, Joe and me studied the area of raval. The submission can be viewed below:

http://www.iaacblog.com/benhoward/?p=67

The most emergent culture is the web culture. It has differnt issues to it like information based on facts, on rumours, fake and other ways of making people aware of something.

Collabulary: Collaborating + vocabulary. A collaborative vocabulary for tagging Web content. A common vocabulary with which Web users categorize the data they find online, particularly one created in collaboration with classification experts to ensure relevance and consistency. 

Splog: A fake blog containing links to sites affiliated with the blogger with the intent of boosting the search engine rankings and ad impressions for those sites. Splogs are blogs where the articles are fake, and are only created for search engine spamming.

Any work today that we start with starts with internet and ends also with it. Search engines have become a crucial part of everyones life. A ’search engine’ is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information which must be consulted, akin to other techniques for managing information overload.

Voken: An animated image that appears over a Web page’s regular content and that, when clicked, takes the user to an advertisement or promotional site.

Mixed reality: A combination of real and virtual both. These days everything has a virtual image to it. For example if we take architecture, u cannot explain new concepts without virtually creating what you want.

Today most of the information on the net is based on rumours than on actual facts. ‘Rumint‘ a word that comes from rumour+information describes the present scenario of the information that is on the web.

Burn and return: Today piracy is everywhere. This basically is to make a copy of original without making a payment.

The instruction manual can be viewed below:

manual.pdf

For mapping our topic was hosting and occupation where we studied different categories like hotels, hostels, private accomodation, homeless, apartment rooms, rooms on rent and okupas. We made the analysis on the basis of kind of accomodation in barcelona, typologies and area of influence.

I mapped hotels where they were categorised on the basis of class like 1 star, 2 star etc and also the prices range of each category was taken into consideration. Also Stephania and myself clicked pictures around the Plaza Catalunya on the basis of facade character, area of influence of various hostings and the flow of people.

The presentation of our group can be viewed at:

http://www.iaacblog.com/benhoward/?p=43

Computing has revolutionized architecture, raising deep philosophical issues that are forcing a paradigm shift in the profession. Computers enable interactive design and analysis, giving designers immediate feed back on the spatial configurations. Computer technology is the latest step in this progression, adding ‘virtuality’ as another dimension to the architect’s drawings. Further, computers initiate the development of extraordinarily complex building systems, expanding the possibilities to building interface. Technological advances have helped to manifest these explorations in ever-increasing fidelity, adding dimensions and influencing the way in which the design process is conducted.Design as a process requires not just the conception and development of design ideas at an individual level, but also the more important aspect of communication and effective expression. Computing has developed a domain where in such reproduction can be made extremely precise or rather ‘super’ precise (beyond reality). CAD tools are increasing their expressive and geometric power to enable a design process in which the computer model can be used throughout the whole design process for realizing the design. The computer-aided design of buildings is concerned with the creation of three-dimensional objects in space. Two-dimensional drawings are inadequate in fully conveying the conceptual ideas of spatial arrangements. 3-D physical models and virtual prototypes at various scales and levels are important which allow spatial experience and analysis. Relying on computer generating techniques, we can also obtain multiple architectural manifestations in terms of form, space, structure and materials. Parametric design hence continues to optimize performance of architecture within a more expansive social-economic system. For architectural design, in a time when standard geometric forms almost have been used up by masters, the emergency of computer generating techniques enhance the architects’ creative imagination ability and expedite the design process. The “Kunsthaus Graz” designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, characterized geometrically by its blob-like form is a non-Euclidean object such that cannot be designed and represented by means of conventional plans, sections and elevations. The form of the building has more to do with the ‘strength of the inevitable’, than with aesthetic rhetoric. The development of the form did not arise out of the definition of algorithms and computational methods that automate the generation of architectural form alone, but automated generative approach was the direction for its moving. 3-D models were generated for different aspects such as structure, cladding systems, ventilation and development of the material. The development of an enclosure without recognizable roofs, walls and floors depended on the manipulation of digital 3-D surfaces. The Kunsthaus Graz was designed through a process of deformation of a digital model of a sphere. Just as with the sketches, physical models are vehicles for developing and assessing design proposals. The role of physical modeling is significant in the evolution of design and as a medium of human interaction. Digital technology has reached a level of embeddedness in architecture at which it is possible and feasible for designers to express design intentions directly without being distracted from the project.

ANNIE GOYAL  RENU GUPTA   UDAY GOSWAMI

“Design of a tree” project aims at designing an arboreal structure based on a research methodology developed by understanding a natural dynamic structure (a tree). as a part of its first phase that emphasizes on the observation of the tree, the following aspects have been tried to cover. The role of the tree in creating the urban landscape of the city, the physical characteristics of the tree evolved as a part of natural process, understanding the general structural dynamism of the tree and the measurements of the dynamic structure by some observational methods. The submission can be viewed on the following link:

tree-presentation.pdf

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This blog deals with different aspects of architecture including architectural history, great architects, buildings, monuments, magazines, landscapes and strange & unique forms and spaces. It covers everything from architecture to urbanism, design to technology and journals to organizations.

The mapping assignment can be seen through the following link:

http://www.iaacblog.com/benhoward/?p=17