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Visualisations by Factory Fifteen

Cliché - renderings

I analysed different renderings in order to filter out different key aspects, which can be found in any rendering. With the key aspects i formed a kind of genealogy of a "cliché - rendering". These key aspects combined will form another cliché rendering.

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JDS - Ron Swimming Hall

Snohetta - SFMoMA

BIG - Kimball Art Center

"Strange City" in Bladerunner

Disciplinary context

In his book “De re aedificatoria” Alberti defines two disciplinary problems. One problem is the relationship between the parts to its whole. For Alberti every part of a building had to scarify its individuality to its whole. The second disciplinary problem defines the whole of a house as a city.

Modernism changed our perspective of the building as a whole. Within the Domus House,Le Corbusier unfolds the idea of a building as the assembly out of parts. The parts do not scarify its individuality towards a whole but rather defines the whole as an assembly of individual parts. The parts are known as the 5 points of a new architecture: the piloties, the free plan, the horizontal window, the hanging façade and the roof garden.

While the form of production changed the mode of buildings, at the same time it changed the form of our city as well. Instead of placing buildings next to each other (baroque ensemble), the city that emerged trough the industrial age becomes the form of a field of freestanding object surrounded by a void space. What has emerged with the freestanding object is that the building becomes the producer of urban spaces within itself. Nicolas Ledoux for example made it possible that you could walk onto, into and underneath the building as well as enter the building by a large hole that cut trough the solid of the building. Le Corbusier has lifted his buildings of the ground so that a space emerged underneath the building while at the same time he reproduced the lost ground as a roof garden. While the garden, one of the 5 elements of a new architecture turned into a urban ground, nearly any part of the building started to become a public space within the 20^th century. At the Unite de Habitation for example, the inner corridor turned into a public street. This public corridor became repeated by the street in the air by the Smithson’s, or became a street grid within the mat-building of Candilis/Woods. Within the theorem of the high-rise, every floor is considered to be new ground. In his cemetery in Modena, Aldo Rossi turned the façade into a framework for a public space and Rem Koolhaas OMA project of the Il Jessui library, turned the floors into a continuous ground.

 The design studio will explore each part of the building as a potential ground for a city. By resembling the parts into a new whole, a strange city emerges, in which every part of a building is taken serious while its new whole is strange, foreign and wired.