order/disorder vol. II

I do apologise at belabouring on this order / disorder thing that's oh-so-last-week. Was actually looking forward to more explorations along this theme, and the painting session! Darn the interim crit which had to come so soon...

Anyway, here's a project I did waaay back in year 1 (therefore very simplistic - don't laugh.) It's to design a lamp, and then design a pavilion from the lamp. (Alan Woo's students would find this familar.)



Well, the idea for the lamp was that layers of (horizontal) filters - polarisers - are that which give the stray (vertical) light rays their order; the removal of which causes them to splay out and be distributed. The pavilion itself was manifested in a change in that order - the (vertical) columns are those which hold the splayed (horizontal) fins together. Thus, there was a supposed intrinsic ordering 'mechanism' that held both the lamp and the pavilion up, such that they are structurally stable and can actually be used as a real lamp and a pavilion respectively.

Hmmm. Sounds simplistic indeed! (Past projects are like ex-girlfriends, you'd love to bring them up from time to time but never really want to talk about them, and both make you go "what was I thinking??")

substrate

Hey guys. I know I might be a couple of weeks behind time... but here are my thoughts on the orderdisorder relationship. I've thought about it and I think a good example of the "orderdisorder" duality is that which is expressed in the growth of fractals / crystals. I've found an applet on the internet that illustrates something to the effect of fractals:

http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/index.php

Seems completely random, yet there's a method to the madness. (That 'method' happens to be in Javascript and is hence cryptic to me - anyone know how to program / read something like that?)

Well, if ever you need to generate a city in minutes, this might be a start!

The new aesthetic?

source: Archinect

Doesn't this new skyscraper in Dubai by RUR Architecture look vaguely familiar....?