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of architecture always in in always architecture of 28 Seaport Interior, After Newton Fallis (1970), Fallis 21.5 Newton 2010, Pencil, After *31cm. Interior, Seaport made at wsa AutopiaAmpere, 32 spectated from a tower of of spectated tower a from appearance, but form in the process of of development thedrawing depictsthat a from the beaten path and explore his[/ path the and from beaten explore becoming, as Paul Klee genesis.” by Newton Fallis, who worked with her] her] particular interests.” the mineral accretion technological coral It is appropriate thatis appropriate It from the illustration Hilbertz, this particular vision can be Visualisation Micro-nation a of “Not form, “Not forming,but formnot as fnal Seaport Interior, * 31cm. After Pencil, 2010, Newton 21.5 Fallis (1970), 21 solving,design processes, environmental awareness all leading as Doehne states, of the early stage visualisations for the of the material. It was a of convergenceexperimentation and creativity and andengineering studios whichdeveloped a heuristic based method. Essentially a discipline is owed in great part to some collaboration between the architecture collaboration for for the architecture students’ to ee f “ project and projections of the possibility pedagogicdeliveringmode basicskill sets, the visualizations which then delivered interdisciplinary approaches to problem Suchproject,a philosophy and emerging 31 sustaining with human help... architecture, it also focuses on designed ensembles and ecologies of fora and fauna that are self artistically satisfying habitats... code inspiring the counterpart landscaper. theprofessional missionembodies the same philosophy and ethical while producing aesthetically and Like its counterpart landscape as Goreau and Hilbertz state, restoration of the marine ecosystem and at wsa made e composite produced was a means for means a was produced composite Te As Dee maintains, adopting a critical critical a adopting maintains, Dee As (Biorock®) possibilities in the form of a of form the in possibilities (Biorock®) and Applications’, IEEE, Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 3, July, (1979), July, 3, No. 4, Vol. pp94-113. Engineering, 2011, 17cm* Oceanic of Pencil, Journal 26cm. IEEE, Applications’, and in Water: Sea Experiments of et al Wolf‘Electrodeposition Hilbertz from of Out Ocean’the ‘Grow unknown, (OTEC Plants), After Structures which to examine visual conventions that conventions that visual to examine which researcher with a more concrete critical critical concrete more a with researcher of purpose the for but representation er from written critiques critiques written from er f di studies these its design, not for the purpose of slavish slavish of purpose the for not design, its the author to understand the elements of elements the understand to author the position (through lived experience) with with experience) lived (through position mode of enquiry of a Klee’esque (Moses) Klee’esque a of enquiry of mode method of dialogic drawing “provides the drawing ofmethod dialogic genesis, the stages of a work and its “coming gauging its complex ideological positioning city and oceanographic research institute. institute. research oceanographic and city of images and their use.” their and ofimages and ecologically demonstrative activity. activity. demonstrative ecologically and 33 It to adopt a is Autopia with Or to recount Heidegger “let us go to the to go the us “let Heidegger Or to recount radical socio-cultural-political implicationsradical socio-cultural-political in our relationship with the ocean that also into being” furniturenearly obsolete. making occupants its of comfort the for creation of free form internal space more space internal form free of creation the allow would method construction actual work what and and ask how actual it is”. akin to biology than architecture, built built architecture, than biology to akin fes exempli an evolutionary environmental with city autonomous an architecture), itself. manifest to will a and expression system. Cybertecture is an economic, material trading, trading, material economic, an is 36 Based on Based a sea foor,shallow the 34 a desire for the recreation of recreation for the desire a 22 (CYBERnetics and and (CYBERnetics 37 Vaulted open open Vaulted 35 e space would contain entertainment entertainment contain would space e T wishes of the inhabitants using the three three the using inhabitants the of wishes oor plans would be developed avoiding avoiding developed be would plans foor running circuitry and services would be be would services and circuitry running then being re-grown. Tese activities would incisions in the structure, these incisions incisions these structure, the in incisions form thin concrete shell structures. shell concrete thin form form would be to similar air form and free grown grown in and function as the arteries of the growing the space and location to thelocation to and space thegrowing complexes, hydroponic gardens, parklands and designing compartmentalisation, and recreational space. It would cultivate cultivate would It space. recreational and structure, which could be extended with with extended be could which structure, Conduit pens. sh f hold and seaweeds Such theorised. that Hilbertz sub-systems 38 made at wsa

44 . ) a pilot pilot a ) infuence 45 (though not all 41 43 whilst an aesthetic an whilst Translations Translations from Drawing to see, to look forward look to see, to is hard to quantify but could quantify but to hard is , drawing has sometimes Autopia Ampere Autopia ), imply wider social, political re- infuence 42 simple recording of light stimuli; organised into fowing structures evolutionary exercise. expandingparameter. As such the act of drawing was a very freeing, means ‘I understand’. Seeing, it has it Seeing, understand’. ‘I means long been recognized, is not the it is a selective and creative processcreativeselectiveand a is it arestimuli environmental which in that provide signs meaningful to the purposive organism. related process. In English ‘I see’ To To see and to think are closely ‘natural’ to maintain at the a generative role in its dual projectivequalities: an ‘over-determined’ surface equivalence and the propelling of the directionality of drawing “the subject medium). this in formed be can architecture betweenobsessive up drawingopened has moreover and ideas, of history the of part as and communicate the design choices and a testing of vision for optimal solutions, pilots:of theof , is f sci- resistant and to f lters such of lived space. Tis species of drawing, of which there are many types (just as architecturally similar land reclamations oceanographic consequences. can visualize intention and perhaps as creations than ‘form t’f architecture or matter (the building or space) will exist after exist will space) or building (the matter be located in an attempt to understand myth of pictorial space to provide a visuala provide pictorialmythspace to of has a futurological ability it also functionsalsofuturological a it ability has possible context. As Tuan remarks context.possibleAs part Tuan of practitioners and those who have displaced have who those and practitioners the process, line language of communication. Ultimately, to to ‘see’ think and see forward, mediating combined and practical conceptual the the drawing not before it” before not drawing the contemporarymethodinthe architecture Stuart Cohen has argued, can to to Building fction in its applicability and possibility would state in with sometimes problematic un-foreseen Drawing, like coral, has a quality of Evans would argue for the reverse Euclid ofered a defnition of a species of (Videre, Latin. Latin. (Videre, A contemporary paradox of ‘pilot’ hand & landscapearchitecture. & Whilst drawing us applied, drawing’s ability to speculate, to ability drawing’s applied, usT is Tis Tis is what drawing sometimes allows, ‘becoming’, as Robin Evans (1944 – 1993) 1993) – Evans‘becoming’,as(1944 Robin

40 . Te 23 as the title suggests under and hydrogen collection seemed early components, but would not meaningful ways? Hydraulic, be from remote the inhabitants. It be surrounded by the ecological handled correctly. Manufacturing processes that made their life there lifetheir processesmade that were they if enjoyable, and possible they be integrated in pleasing really seemed inhabitants could would be engaged, but how could wind and solar systems would be Farming and waste recycling speculate on the energy and excitement drafting Autopia, original Autopia drawing, using the golden golden the drawing,using Autopia original demonstrated by Fallis when recounting of Texas, Austin and then founded the a student of Hilbertz, alongside Forrest and building components, all of which are which allof components, building and were possibilities Such resources. exportable T.Savage’s Marshall into amalgamated developed as technological possibilities are free claims, from such territorial on non-traditionalon building materials. coercion (at least for a while) as the oceans the as while) a for least (at coercion gravity based robotic constructions for format a drawing which ‘grew’; grappling mean by Fallis, was produced in large materialise from the original conception, would Autopia accretion. mineral for metal be being autonomous, free from political present in what took place there. Te naturalsociologicalpurpose,use,material imitation and technological-function. Such Such technological-function. and imitation thought processes and visualization are the fall semester of Hilbertz1970. asked technologiesmany explore to studentsthe as such zero- infancy in their were that rst practical step, colonizing the oceans the colonizing step, practical frst the colonies sister its and ‘Aquarius’ through include tidal turbines and wave generators. wave tidalandturbines include the notion of Cybertecturemoving of before notion the to the School of Architecture, University recyclablesurfacecanonly materials. One use in space and oceans, and land-based with complex ideas of philosophical working working as both a creator of aquaculture could also be used as the base the as used be also could Magnesium Higgs and the engineering school during Having studied architecture in Berlin,Hilbertz began teaching at Southern Fallis worked on a number of drawings of number Fallisa ason worked Environment Laboratory’. He worked on University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in in Galaxy the Colonizing Project: Millennial Eight Eight Easy Steps 1965 1965 where he founded the ‘Responsive ‘Symbiotic ‘Symbiotic Process Lab’ in working1970 e plants would involve plantsinvolve wouldTe 39 structure involves a proposal from Hilbertz from proposal a involves structure easily be repaired and the plants could deep shafts formed of accreted material. and evolving the city, responding to its currents. Te plants could also produce computer neural network monitoring food production. A part of the Autopia for Ocean Termal Energy Conservation magnesium production. Possibilities other Possibilities magnesiumproduction. be re-anchored to shift with prevailing be enacted by robots controlled by a super- a by controlled robots enactedby be thanOTECs,discussedhas project theas into electricity. into inhabitants from humidity control to refractory magnesium, the raw material for for material raw the refractorymagnesium, (OTEC) plants converting thermalconvertingenergyplants (OTEC) Again, any damage occurring could at wsa made Autopia Ampere Section with OTEC Plants, 2011, Pencil, 26cm *26.5cm. 2011, 26cm Plants, OTEC Pencil, with Section Ampere Autopia when interviewed on the Autopia piece, he proven has fuence, in arguable an with in which architectural history is rife with with rife is history architectural which in design information of tool a as value its examples. Fallis demonstrated this role, role, this demonstrated Fallis examples. lling lling f is hand your as that Found implications and attempt to generate of city’sthe to ponder vastness the able is mind your forms some in virtual,thisassimpli fesacomplex inter- weighted towards the virtual object; object; virtual the towards weighted Contemporary visual focus is more more is focus visual Contemporary relationship of visual method. William William method. visual of relationship ed arguments arguments ed f simpli current resisting positioning the hand crafted against the the against crafted hand the positioning was always at the forefront. atthe always was new form and technological technological and form new solutions to problems – Ecology Ecology – problems to solutions 24 46 ‘Republic of Desire’ using the ‘Dream ‘Dream the using Desire’ of ‘Republic Walls’ software) beyond it “… you get get you “… it beyond software) Walls’ Gibson articulates in in articulates Gibson thespacebeyond thatsortoffellaway, leaning were you that sense funny this when design computational within that lled lled – f by has both Gibson, similarly unful forever.” concentrating upon the object, (in the the (in object, the upon concentrating out, over the edge of the world, and and world, the of edge the over out, 47 is ‘beyond’ space described described space ‘beyond’ is T ita Lgt , Light Virtual made at wsa mez & Pelletier,mez& 55 Pérez-G 54 56 sustainable development, because of international commitments to constraints on doing the right thingright the doing constraints on generations may be the truest test for the environment. for functions protecting coral reefs for future it places some of the most stringentmost the of places some it Synergetical you-and-we Cosmic ecology regenerating Humanity will be re-orientated way entropic its one From fMe- rst energy wastings To its syntropic circulatoryTo scientifc papers, and drawings produced system approach, involving reactive and seascape architecture is needed as,seascape needed architecture is Summary accretion process, illuminate and move optimismborne of collaborationout and architecturalstudiothe within opportunity ecosystem promoting and educating on of the evolution of the city and its as well as acidifcation and the devastatingrecent Tsunamis’ combined with of education in certain sea communities amongst many other factors make and challenging designs and plans to and the light, between the conceived contained within Hilbertz and Goreau’s can enrich architectural production. complexinter-relationships andfunctions humankindstake.Similarahas sentiment proactive capabilities, within which is found in Fuller, in found is in the ‘Symbiotic Process Lab’ on the into the visionary- embodying an marinelandscaping,provide countering to the increasing degradation of the coral the importance of marine biodiversity. It the unreal [?].” unreal the thuscall andmark out,like Lefebvre, the transitiveprojection,ofrole geometry and its abstractness, an abstractness which inits viewing moving beyond the image itself, to where further imaginingtake place,can construing a mental image likewise the development drawings requireschangea thinkingof whole afor radioactivedischarges,lack overandf shing statesGoreauAsresearch to. respondinto readable/visible). Between the real and Coral bleaching and rising sea temperatures, sea rising and bleaching Coral Hilbertz’s endeavours highly provocative (abstraction) and the perceived (the A small coral fragment grows anew, Autopia marks a movement, and invites – Seascape Architecture.

52 49 ( Vol 1, 1, Vol ( Tese social Pencil Points: 51 e Production Production Te 48 53 we need to enable 25 where he warns produce“...we it is desirable to acquire “an acute 50 of culture, of our individual and collective existence. collective beyond, it illuminates the space boundaries. Defning the space between light between andthe beginning and darkness, the [it] evokes temporality and sense of the feel of his pen or pencil on detachment, vacuous formal representation representation formalvacuous detachment, and the privileging of the image and interest in haptics) in in haptics) interest and ability maintains a connection with the architectural production. as Tim Ingold writes; embodies hand its history on a drawingsingle sheet. of “What exists, between the shadows qualities of becoming: endeavours. As James Corner suggests in eidetic operations – specifc ideational onlythe reproducible, and hence weonly existingof social relations”. connector to lived space, and be resistant to to resistant be and space, lived to connector constructing (projecting) new landscapes. new (projecting) constructing form of ‘speculative of mimeticediting’form over found in Henri Lefebvre’s Lefebvre’s Henri in found for projection is at stake and so are its forms of representational technique with be consciously reductive in its choices - a production, the ideology of representationideology of theproduction, produce only by reproducing or imitatingreproducingor by onlyproduce is reproducibility production...because past phenomenology of our environment,phenomenologyour of this potentially, can constitute the material playswithmethodsothervisualization, of transcription and Cartesian projection). and Cartesian projection). transcription the paper, a delicacy of touch that is not is said to be able to almost ‘see’ with his its application & standardization of visuality pure a becoming es f de sense this techniques for construing techniques(imagining)for and resistant to spaces of alienation and in respect but revitalized in the role that it relations can in part refect back, reversibilityin a of design, the ideology of unlike that of the skilled surgeon who of Space just as susceptible to literal perspective fngertips.”. As long as the suggested which which cannot be reductive, but needs to what ensures the renewal (or reproduction) reproduction) renewal(or ensuresthe what Hand drawing involves the body, is Drawing should not be privileged in this (pre-empting the contemporary resurgencecontemporarythe (pre-empting (though historically drawing has been As the draughtsman Oliver Regan states Recovering Recovering Landscape, Journal of the Draughting Room Wider implications for design can be Tis is moving from Lefébvre’s question 1920) , mez & Architectural advances, as Alberto Pérez-G departure. T ough the digital, whilst bringing new fractals and detailing information reduction: a disruption of the drawing needs to provide a promise in the interrupting of its objectivity and in in its cultural layering and points of Louise Pelletier suggest in suggest Pelletier Louise visible and invisible axioms to drawing Representation and Representation the Hinge Perspective Autopia Ampere Section with Pencil, OTEC Plants, 26cm 2011, * 26.5cm. at wsa made Brise soleil, Detail of Autopia Ampere, After Newton Fallis (1970) 18.5cm (1978), Fallis *13.8cm. Newton Wolf Hilbertz and Pencil, After 2009, Ampere, Autopia of Detail soleil, Brise 26 made at wsa

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