Brutalism, Deconstructionism, Blobism PDF

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Brutalism, Deconstruc1onism, Blobism Brutalism • Brutal materials, treatment, use • First called themselves "metal bashers"- because they were using metal as their preferred material o Sheet metal- cold, hard, slick o Exposing welding, bolts, raw edges, seams, blowtorch scars o Body piercing/punk rock movement • Ron arad o Tel Aviv Opera House, 1988 ▪ Interior: walls and ceiling metal ▪ Pierces it with lighLng- cutouts ▪ Column stops before top and can see edges ▪ Side of lobby: staircase out of metal- doesn't go to edges ▪ Exposing brutality of use ▪ Drawing aPenLon to how to use ▪ Staircase doesn't leave to anything ▪ Highly polished

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Big easy chair ▪ Cut from sheet metal ▪ Raw edges ▪ Visible seam of welding process ▪ Curves aren't soR ▪ Make think comfy but not ▪ Appropriated reference: Hebrew alphabet shape ▪ Many different metallic materials

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Well- tempered chair, 1993 ▪ Way to treat metal ▪ Exposed bolts ▪ Held in tension with curved shapes ▪ Puncturing materials and showing

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Empty chair, 1993 ▪ Using wood but piercing metal in back

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Eyewear/sunglasses, 2012 ▪ Didn't make use of hinge ▪ ConLnuous piercing metal through lenses

Marc Newson o He called himself "cu[ng edge"- contemporary and with furniture design o Lockheed Lounge chair, 1986 ▪ AeronauLc aircraR manufacturing • Reference to rivets in aircraR creaLon ▪ Process of aircraR riveLng ▪ Molded fiberglass covered with aluminum sheets ▪ Not disguising hard edges ▪ Sold at aucLon for $1.5 million

Curl chair ▪ Wood curving in on itself ▪ Reference to curve of wave • Surboards capture waves Wood: surboard material ▪ Pierces itself ▪ Phillipe Starck o Design is a dreadful form of expression o PerturbaLon- uneasiness fear o Café Costes, 1984 ▪ Brutal with Lme • 10 hour clock ▪ Café Costes Chair: bending material around and material • Slanted leg o

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Royalton chaise, 1988 ▪ Piercing gesture

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Royalton bar stool, Philippe Starck, 1988 ▪ Meant to irritate/make feel uncomfy • Doesn't look safe ▪ Footrest pierces leg ▪ Sense of fear/danger because it doesn’t look safe or sturdy ▪ Blowtorch texture

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Hot bertaa kePle ▪ Metal used ▪ Sharp point ▪ Fill with water through handle ▪ Hold handle ▪ Piercing through body to form spout Olympic torch ▪ Metal ▪ Point ▪ Raw edges and welding ▪ Looks like hold from top but hit from flame ▪ Included with heat proof gloves ▪ Fear

Summary: o Material: metal- cold, hard slick o Brutal treatment of material ▪ Cu[ng of sheet metal ▪ Welding: display of seams ▪ RiveLng: sutures, wounds, scars o Brutal experience of design on part of user ▪ Sharp edges exposed ▪ Piercing gestures in form ▪ Dangerous interacLon

DeconstrucLonism • Destructed architecture/design • Deconstructed architectural forms • Deconstructed designed products/furniture • Ripley’s believe it or not museumo Building falling apart/down ▪ Appearing unstable • Frank gehry o Cleveland clinic ▪ Falling down ▪ Deconstruct the building • Dematerialize • Fragment • Float • Expose • Make transparent

Pierced metal walls No enclosure Fragmented Exposing- how does it enclose? Lots of separate parts to quesLon integrity RelaLvely small space No focus on funcLon o Guggenheim museum ▪ Docked ship- appropriated reference • Movement on water and sails ▪ CATIA: computer aided three dimensional interacLve applicaLon • Rotate, flip, mulLply ▪ Dematerializing/fragmenLng ▪ How does it work? ▪ Random curves ▪ Integrated forms o Experience music center ▪ Fragment: looks like different buildings ▪ All integrated interior ▪ Celebrate contribuLons of music: jimmy hendrix ▪ Purple color: sky church ▪ Psychedelic ▪ Different pictures of guitars to generate shapes James wines: best building o Open architecture o Move out part to get inside Rem koolhaas o Including open void in center o "expose"="dematerialize" o See through it o People floaLng Product design o James dyson: air mulLplier ▪ Deconstructed fan ▪ Removed blade ▪ Propel air through void • Gathers, spins, propels ▪ LeR out parts of tradiLonal language o FuturisLc bike: chris boardman ▪ Suspended seat ▪ relocate gears ▪ No spokes ▪ No chain ▪ Gear driven spokeless wheels without chain ▪ Solar powered lights ▪ Solar powered bike to mechanize ▪ Fingerprint recgniLon ▪ Playing music ▪ Count calories Summary ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪

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Architecture ▪ Dematerialize, fragment ▪ CATIA to generate form from fragments ▪ "deconstruct" tradi;onal language of architecture Product ▪ Removing/making absent ▪ Deconstruct tradi;onal language of products

Blobism • Karim rashid o Blobject- Blobular- Blobism o Garbino trash can: ▪ Molded polypropaline ▪ Greta garbo: reference to actress ▪ Garbage ▪ Postmodern appropriateion ▪ Material and process • Moldable • SoR touch • Flexible • Transparent/translucent- takes color well • Gel plasLcs: influence on gummy bears- gel sugar o Naples metro staLon ▪ Poured out forms of gel ▪ Don’t take solid composed form ▪ Look wet/not dry • Apple- jonatha ive o iMac G3 ▪ All in 1 personal computer ▪ Single enclosure ▪ Molded polyporpylene • ParLally transparent ▪ SLll flowing/molding ▪ Color: bondi blue- blue color on beach • Flowing liquid • Beach- water- surfing internet ▪ Range of colors later- lifesaver color ▪ Shipped with keyboard and mouse in matching Lnts- hockeypuck house • Poured on blue part ▪ Curves ▪ Recessed handle ▪ Asymmetry control panel ▪ Colors= candy flavors ▪ Yum • Ron arad o Well transparent chair ▪ Flexible ▪ Sit within it ▪ Make asymmetry ▪ Form as sit ▪ Make use of polyprop

FantasLc plasLc elasLc chair ▪ Flowing/floaLng/melLng ▪ elasLc Greg lynn o Folds, bodies and blobs o "blobitecture"- use of Metabolic graphical soRware- take shape that wasn't blob like and expand into other forms of that shape o Blobwall pavilion ▪ Molded polyprop ▪ Three lobed blocks ▪ Interlock to form structure ▪ Asymmetry ▪ Molten look ▪ Bubble graffiL • ConLnue flow • Blob like quality Blobitecture o NaLonal space centre- nicholas grimshaw ▪ Transparency ▪ Asymmetry ▪ Blob like shape ▪ ETFE material: used to form membrane • Can be inflated • Transparent • APached to metal grid and inflated to be rounded Two missals shown inside ▪ • Transparent ▪ Viewing plaqorm like launchpad ▪ reference • Like footprint leR by neil armstrong • Launch constraints o Chris bosse water cube aquaLc center ▪ Bubble outside ▪ ETFE ▪ Transparency like water ▪ Blob like form ▪ ConLnue on ceiling ▪ Appropriated references o Bubble project - hirshhorn museum ▪ Inflatable Eqe membrane ▪ Bubble ▪ Takes on different shape qhen inflated o Atra isozaki and anisk kapoor ▪ Inflatable concert venue ▪ Eqe ▪ FloaLng ▪ Air inside ▪ Transparency ▪ Blob shape ▪ See through o

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▪ FuncLonal chambers Summery o Use of amorphous, asymmetrical shapes that look like sLll forming o Polypropylene (molded or poured) for flexibility, transparency o ETFE for flexibility/transparency ▪ Inflatable architecture- blobitecture ▪ Invisibility of internet in product design...