An architecture that has to explain itself, or be explained, has failed to present its own qualities. It sets up a conventional relationship between material organization and reference. p. 173
- Reiser + Umemoto
Atlas of Novel Tectonics, 2006
As you begin developing envelopes in your projects, consider these two definitions of the term:
- An envelope is a membrane continuously enfolding interiority and exteriority. This is more like the skin of a body with all its textures, curvatures, and folds than a normative architectural system of walls, floors, and ceilings.
- An envelope is a set of performance limits, i.e. the performance envelope of an aircraft. The performance of envelopes in your project will be primarily measured in terms of sunlight control.
WIRE
Install wires in the large-scale landscape. Follow principles developed in wiring the small-scale landscape, but do not necessarily duplicate configurations. Adjustments to the wires must be made in response to the location of inhabitable surfaces and corresponding orientations of the light filter. Develop a basswood attachment component between foam and wire. This attachment component must allow wires to be easily installed / removed and prevent wires from directly touching foam.
LIGHT FILTER
The light filter will operate according to both definitions of envelope given above – it will be an enclosing membrane and it will perform by filtering light in a specific manner. Following principles developed in the gradient model, build bristol board light filtering apertures onto the wire structure. Make iterative adjustments to the light filter so that it begins to enclose and cast shadows upon inhabitable surfaces. The shadows it casts must work like those in the tracking document.
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