difference in kind/ difference in degree
Architectural orders have a clear, fixed identity. this system change can only be referenced in kind, by its relation to a fixed model.
In contrast, sometimes, each element has no intrinsic and stable meaning outside its contextual relationship. The meaning is acquired in relation to the specific behaviour and effect we are seeking in a given zone of a project.
fineness
Fineness breaks down the gross fabric of building into finer and finer parts such that it can register small differences while maintaining an overall coherence trying to achieve an organization where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Architecture must achieve the right balance between material geometry and force.
the unformed generic form acquiring content
Leonardo da Vinci’s use of the stain relies upon projecting known content and scale into an unformed field as a means of rendering visible program and composition. The stain represents a specific form of the generic that is at the once both general and specific. We project material into a diagrammatic field. The potential of the unformed.
the unformed generic form acquiring content - Frank Ghery - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/
Similarity and difference
There are two general developments within the issue of similarity and difference which are not mutually exclusive. Two elements can look different but be similar at the level of performance, or look similar but behave differently.
Variety (difference) vs. Variation (self-similarity)
Quantity is a precondition to fineness.
Repetition in multiple models is necessary to make selections and repetition within a single model is necessary to register differentiation.
Difference, or the possibility for difference, is produced as an answer to program.
Intensive quantity generates a whole irreducible to the sum of its parts: whole-whole relationships.
Part – to - whole relationships -
We work within a hierarchy that is not simply nested in scale and distinct form the orders that lie above and below it. We are using organizational principles that promote communication across scales, in which the particular is able to affect the general and vice-versa.
This requires a methodology that involves both top-down logics operating in feedback loop and enables the emergence of new organizations legible as whole-whole relationships.
part-to-whole relationships - Reiser+Uremoto - Flux room
www.reiser-umemoto.com/
After collage: two conditions of the generic
reject the juxtapositional techniques accumulations of the merely different.
posit either Simple unit repeated along a variable trajectory
Variable unit repeated along a simple trajectory.
Transformation is a quality perceived through deployment in quantity.
Difference is a property of a transformation, or set of transformations, to the group called “progressive differentiation”.
Coherence vs. incoherence
Internally consistent systems are inherently different from systems of collage. The collage as a technique relies on elements being recognizably out of context, or recontextualized. It is inherently juxtapositional.
Behind event he most incoherent architecture lies the coherence of building systems.
A new understanding of difference
The proper use of continuous variation consists in taking a molecular population and deploying it as a molar or large scale aggregate, thus making the statistical variation comprehensible and visible for a certain quantity. In this way it becomes a living datascape.
Selection vs. classification
Typology is, thus, less a classification or codification than it is the basis for a process of constrained material expressions. Selection is an element of the generative, of the field of forces that contribute to the instantiation of architecture. This classification of properties involves grouping figures by their response to events that occur to them.
Coherent systems - Rem Koolhaas - OMA - Bordeaux House
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