- Lisa Iwamoto, Digital Fabrication: Architectural and Material Techniques, (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), p. 4
WHY ORNAMENT:
Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connect to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society
as material to work with. Architectures materiality is therefore a composite one, made of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as
invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses through new concepts that connect these forces, manifesting itself in new
aesthetic compositions and affects. Ornament is the by-product of this process, through which architectural material is organized to transmit unique
affects.
- Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo, eds., The Function of Ornament (Actar, Barcelona, 2008), back cover
FABRICATION
SURFACE 1 SURFACE 3
SURFACE 2 SURFACE 4
partially visible windows
vertical supports
twisted louvers
Signal Box The signal Box creates an affect of variable depth by cladding the ordinary volume of an electri-
cal signal box in thin horizontal copper bands that are twistet at strategic locations to provide light
By: Herzog & de Meuron to the inhabited spaces within. the continuous transition from a flat facade of copper bands to a
Date: 1994 screen of twisted louvers varies the visual depth of the envelope.
Site: Basel, Switzerlan
Link: Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo, eds., The Function of Ornament (Actar, Barcelona, 2008)
Kanno Museum Hitoshi Abes work is sculptural, generative, sensitive to materials and structurally innovative, us-
ing fabrication techniques and design approaches that are somewhat uncommon in Japan. The
By: Hitoshi Abe main entrance, marked by an L-shaped Cor-Ten canopy, brings visitors directly into the museums
Date: 2005 top level. Here, floors become walls, walls become ceilings, and art becomes the focus. Steel stairs
Site: Shiogama descend immediately to an exhibition space, the first of a spiraling sequence of irregularly shaped
Link: http://www.a-slash.jp/main.html galleries on three levels, all contained within the buildings rectilinear enclosure.
http://www.takahashikogyo.com/sakuhin/okanoue/okanoue_e.htm
Aoba-Tei Restaurant Architecture is the unification of the diverse phenomena that constitute the state of a place,
which are contingently materialized as boundary surfaces. The restaurants interior is wrapped
By: Hitoshi Abe in folded and perforated steel plates. Hundreds of thousands of holes were numerically cut into
Date: 2005 the plates with a pixelated image of the local Zelkova trees. At night the abstracted silhouettes of
Site: Sendai the Zelkova trees are revealed as the surrounding boundary surfaces dematerialize into points of
Link: http://www.a-slash.jp/main.html light and shadow.
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