/design work, projects and tests*/

/*setting a research project currently, more
...information will be available soon/

Friday, August 28, 2009

Structuring of Forms and Materials in Relation to Time – Design Research, part I


/structuring of forms and materials in relation to time/

The purpose is to conduct a research in structuring of forms using computation methods, with the aim of investigating possibilities of application of these findings into architectural design.

The intention is to look into the series of spontaneous changes that the systems are morphing through, from solid states to liquids, and the underlying rules that keep different systems together - their mathematical relationships and physical basis.

With the intent to investigate the systems that are ordered in comparison to the one that are disordered, solid states in comparison to dynamic systems, such as liquids, to compare the amount of entropy in these system and micro-interrelations, their consistency, i.e. how these forms dynamically and structurally hold together as one entity.

Exploration of these issues is directly related to time. Change involves time, and it is a fundamental part of it. Without time, matter is in a sort of 'frozen', idealized still state and there seems to be no such a formation in nature as a stable assemblage.

/solid states vs liquids/

The primary aim is to look at the system formations, their micro scale arrangements and the subsequent tendencies of behavior at the macro level, consistencies of the materials and their emergent behaviors at macro scale. Especial interest is researching the succession of changes that these systems are going through as they change their states from solid states to liquids – their composition, working structure and the organization.

Through the use of computation methods and mathematical algorithms, the intention is to be able to 'see it' and visualize the findings, deriving the set of interrelations that could be consequently interpreted into the architectural form. Computation methods and forms that 'appear' in visual form present the possibility to work with the design at many different levels - among others, related to a timeline, as with film editing – mixing, stretching, reversing etc. different data forms.

Translated into the design form, these less visible dimensions of an organization are something to be visualized. At micro scale, the properties of the physical substance as it goes through the change, and at macro scale, an organizational hierarchy and the formation processes of these systems, with the goal of finding how these processes could relate to the design and architectural practice.

/force of spontaneous change/

The real interest is in working with ideas conceptually, finding the new strategies and implementing them in the derivation of the architectural form, with a goal of developing concrete methodology out of it and starting to test specific projects. Particular interest is in using the advanced design technologies, computer programming for design process and in the usage of advanced digital application for architectural practice.

This approach is seen as necessary to shift things in the direction that will allow for multifaceted data manipulation and analysis, the models that will extend to include the time data – allowing the matrix of change to be translated, implemented subsequently into the design model, ie. the form, and as the final objective using the power of spontaneous change whose occurrence is evident on every level of experience, to run the physical models eventually for us, in the direction that is envisaged.

Realizing and implementing this force of change, ie. the flow of matter, will potentially present a very powerful resource, whose occurrence in the architectural practice so far has been seen more along the lines of the external conditions, a sort of a consequence, rather than seeing it as a very potent source.


B. Vuksanovic

Friday, August 7, 2009

From July 2009. Bojana Vuksanović becomes a partner in ZEROarchitetti

After working within the same team at Daniel Libeskind Studio Berlin, Bojana Vuksanović and Roberto Forte together with Andrea Guardo, continue collaborating on the international competitions, forming a partnership in 2009.

logo

ZERO Architetti office was originally set up by Roberto Forte and Andrea Guardo in 2004. Catania, Italy. More information on the projects and the office profile available from ZERO Architetti studio website.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

End of term reviews 4ofseven Design Studio Graduate Programme, Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade

4ofseven Master Unit run by Djordje Stojanović

samples of student's work:
Vladan Stevović

Vladan Stevović - an objectified data

Marko Stojković

Museum of Science and Technology - Offspring
rehabilitation and conversion of an old warehouse construction into a space to house the new Museum of Science and Technology Pavilion


4of7 STUDIO REVIEWS, MASTER UNIT | May 30, 2009

Guest Critics: Bojana Vuksanović, Danilo Dangubić
Invitation: Djordje Stojanović

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Following the invitation by Mirjana Devetaković, I will be visiting the Generic Explorations Generative Research Group of the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Belgrade, during stay in Belgrade at the end of this months.

More details on works of the Generative Research Group available at: Generic Explorations website.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

gh definition surface population/test

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gh definition test
00014 test rhino/v-ray rendering engine

based on 'Bounding box, divide interval and box component' definition found at ARTC MIAMI / ARTC Miami / (requires registration/otherwise free)

gh definition / download /

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Invitation by Djordje Stojanović of 4ofseven and Superfusionlab to be a guest critic at the final reviews of the 4ofseven Design Studio Graduate Programme, Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade.

4of7 Design Studio, leading to Masters of Architecture Diploma, is put together by Djordje Stojanović as a "way of thinking between architectural profession and academia". The studio works in the direction and with a special interest in building information technologies, integrated design processes, complex geometries and generative approaches to design.

The reviews are to be held Tuesday 30th June 2009. 10.00am start (subject to a flux of perpetual flexibility)

I am especially looking forward to it, since 4of7 is one of very rare studios in the region of the former Yugoslavia that is concentrating search in this area of designing.

links:

www.4ofseven.com
www.superfusionlab.com
4of7 design studio
Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade

Friday, February 13, 2009

Fuck Machine by Charles Bukowski

Set design: Bojana Vuksanović
Direction/adaptation: Neven Samardzić



main scene - the machine


introductory bar scene


final scene - Henry's bedroom

The central piece is the machine - a featureless mechanism controlling all. Henry falls in love with Tanya, a machine with no feelings.

Cast: Kemal Čebo, Mirza Dervišić, Igor Skvarica, Semir Krivić, Belma Salkunić, Alma Terzić; Music: Sasa Peševski

Charles Bukowski's collection of stories available / here /

Many thanks to Osman Arslanagić for his kind help.

Showing 4th of March, 20h, Theater Scena Obala, Sarajevo


Sunday, February 8, 2009


-
'Unspecified Form' / . PDF download /
/writing/

online link: -'Unspecified Form'

Saturday, December 20, 2008


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'Planned Spontaneity' / . PDF download /
/writing/

online link: -'Planned Spontaneity'

Monday, September 15, 2008

'sketching' with functions

three dimensional model
bojana vuksanovic - 03b parametric
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Friday, September 5, 2008

"Appearance" - white pen on black paper









sketch/paths diagrams/time

Tuesday, September 2, 2008



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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Proposal for the new Academy of Performing Arts, Sarajevo

The brief asked for an inclusion of the two new city theaters to be used by the Academy students and staff for teaching and simultaneously act as the new cultural centers for the events happening at the level of the city.


main facade/north

PRESENCE


The intention was to make a strong presence of the Academy building and the two new theaters in the city of Sarajevo, rising the awareness and been a positive influence on the general consciousness and culture.

With its presence, the 'bodies' of the theaters would be changing energies in the city, impacting the urban structure and the physical matter of the Academy. In the wider context, they would also influence a general consciousness and hope to give some new perceptions.

west facade

south facade



Theaters as 'live bodies', present physically and spiritually in the city of Sarajevo and in the Academy, continually changing them.

bojana vuksanovic - organisation asu 2
organization diagram

ENCLOSE
D WORLDS


Visible and present inside the Academy and externally, the theaters still stay a mysterious, enclosed worlds. The insides of the two theaters are a sort of 'wombs' where the future actors, film directors, scenographers and dramatists are been 'hatched' and 'born'. These introverted environments are there as a place where they can grow and develop. Inside apparently enclosed spaces, there are infinite possibilities, worlds which are free to happen, imagination been the only limit.

facade/three different transparencies

In terms of the geometry and materiality, the 'bodies' of the large and small scene are distinctive from the rest of the Academy building.
The rest of the facade is 'pixelated', made of 'pixels' of three different qualities - a transparent, semi-transparent and opaque. Combination of these 3 pixels of different levels of transparency, with the changes in internal and external lighting, and various events inside the building, a varied and animated facade is achieved.



facade - close up






changing energies/theaters used as a projection screens

The two introverted bodies do not have any external openings. Their external surface is used as a projection screen and it comes alive during the events in the city of Sarajevo, making it changeable as the events in the Academy and in the city change.


Inside the Academy, the two theaters become main centers of the school, a meeting points for the students and places for the exchange of the ideas. All the social spaces are located along the perimeters of the theaters. The 'roof' of the main scene becomes a library with the adjacent media rooms.

The building has no corridors - circulation and communications happen around the perimeter of this 'center bodies'.
They connect all the teaching departments and the teachers offices.

The smaller theater is positioned on the level of the roof, high at the top of the Academy. During the summer film festival, this space opens up to become an open air cinema with the exit on the roof terrace from which the city of Sarajevo can be seen.

view of the entrance

The entrance is beneath the 'floating' theater that is suspended above the entire entrance foyer and also forms its ceiling. The stage and the actors and the public are in the 'floating' body above it. One arrives to the cafe following the ramp from the entrance foyer. Above the cafe there is a double height space from which the volume of the large theater can be experienced.

Proposal for the new Academy of Performing Arts, Sarajevo
01. - 09. February, 2008, Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo


Friday, August 1, 2008

Proposal for the New Bridge in front of the Academy of Fine Arts

Sarajevo 2007.

Coinciding geometries - the bridge against the strict order of the Academy





side view of the bridge

Coinciding geometries - the bridge against the strict order of the Academy

Placing the ‘broken’ geometry of the bridge against the strict order of the Academy had an intent of visualizing the two opposing energies that are in place. A thin line invisibly drawn between the two is the ‘axes’ along which the bridge is constructed. The bridge appears fragile, balancing between the two banks of river Miljacka, centrally shifted out of balance. It is held in an equilibrium in that frail moment and its balancing point.

Usually, there are two types of power. In one, the strength comes from its materiality, it is its power of mass and weight, a physical force. The other is of a very fragile kind, although one requiring much greater skills. It shows its strength in virtuosity of balancing of vast energies of moments. Managing to keep them in motion while staying at the point of equilibrium.

The resultant materiality of the bridge is only the one that is necessary to keep this forces stable. At the end becomes unclear if the materiality is the one that realizes the bridge or if the bridge is just a by-product, a physical materialization of the forces that were already in place.

The divisions that happened within Sarajevo during and after the war were at several levels. The resemblance of Berlin wall is still in place, just this time with its margins made present through quiet forces it exerts.

When this happens, there is a wonder, if this was a natural state of things all along, one to which things naturally resumed and to which everything reverted. Or, if the point of balance was really their true state, but the one requiring much greater intelligence and understanding to sustain, subjected to a wave that shifted things to quite different places.


context model/section through the river bed


render/3d/not to scale

Proposal for the new bridge in front of the Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo

Proposal for the new bridge in front of the Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo
05. - 22. November, 2008, Gallery Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo


Friday, October 5, 2007

infinite number of possible forms - derivation of liquid cubes

derivation of many variations from a single idea, the design becomes its ‘essence’ - an idea of itself


online link: -'Unspecified Form'

In the project, the form of the cube has been manipulated with the aim of simultaneously obtaining an unlimited number of possible solutions. This approach, in turn, has removed the necessity for specifying any particular form as the end result, since all of the possible outcomes were analysed at once.



image 01/change = zero/objects defined as perfect cubes


Initially, the perfect cube was defined by the software. The characteristics or the ‘essence’ of the ‘cubes’ was clearly defined, specified in terms of minimum and maximum values, as well as in terms of their overall aesthetic quality.

The work with the form was entirely random, i.e. the form could have been any of the shapes shown in the images below (an extract), or just as equally a perfect cube. Form has not been manipulated with a certain result in mind. In fact, no particular form has been envisaged prior to its creation. The final form remained unknown, since only when the parametric value was applied in the controlling field, the resulting form was determined.



image 02/deformations 0073/parametrically induced


The design was considered solely on probabilistic grounds i.e. the forms could or could not result in a certain shape. Paradoxically, although the final form stayed unspecified, an infinite number of its probable states was possible to obtain.

An element of the accidental was interwoven in the creation process, and some possible results unintentionally became more appealing than others.
Although the ‘essence’ of the objects stayed identical, i.e. their formula remained constant, the ‘cubes’ manifested themselves differently in every case. Each of the produced forms is unique.



image 03/deformations 0176/parametrically induced


An identical ‘essence’ is evident in a group of the same kind, where every entity still remains different and individual, taking its final form only when fused with the conditions in which it exists. It is from this process of physical materialisation that uniqueness and individuality are born.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

possibility forms - liquid cubes







online link: -'Unspecified Form'

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

possibility forms - liquid cubes

possibility forms - liquid cube/single 071

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

possibility forms - liquid cube/single 097

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

concept models, experiments with form

The more static the system, the less change is possible. The things that show the greatest ability for adaptation and change are those in their dynamic states. Liquids and gases (fluids) are the physical states which are the most flexible. Although there are rules governing their behaviour and setting their limits, their state and their form are not fixed. They are able to take on the ‘shape’ of that which contains them. They are able to ‘mould’ around things, unlike solids.


concept model/liquid forms


concept model/liquid forms


concept model/liquid forms


model photographs/2003


Tuesday, August 21, 2007

concept models, experiments with form




concept model/liquid forms



concept model/liquid forms







concept model/liquid forms


models made in 2003/ECA

Friday, August 17, 2007

tests with distortions of space



distortion of space/test/04




distortion of space/test/07




distortion of space/test/11



Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Kilder Observatory - Finals


top view with the access path

section through the observatory - showing the scale of the two
persons standing inside

Proposal for the new observatory at Kilder, United Kingdom

colaboration with Nicola Van Waegening

Sunday, July 15, 2007

The idea of the Library of 21st century



Library idea proposal, Ireland

collaboration with Nicola Van Waegening

The hidden, that raises the curiosity - the physical objects, that become precious, a hidden knowledge. What could be more intriguing than what is secret. What could raise more desire than what is forbidden.

In freeing the main body of the Library of the books, and by placing them into the library's floor - a hidden, underground chamber into which only glimpses are allowed, the intent was to try and raise the mystery, to re-assign back the value that books once had and which we believe they have, as physical objects, recently lost with the prevalence of the net. The value that they had in time when knowledge and the written word were still something special, accessible only to privileged.

Simultaneously, the main (street accessed) level of the Library is freed to become a true 21st century multimedia multi event space. Fully accessible and to be used by the public for various events. The visitors walk on top of underground book chamber that projects onto the street, beyond the glass facade of the library, and accidental passers-by catch glimpses of the space below. Walking on the heavy slate floor of the projected chamber, the books become present in the city and public become aware of hidden space with the books.

The content of the entire Library's archive is held on the public server and is accessible to anyone via connection points throughout the Library. These online points are fully accessible by persons with visual or auditory impairments. The books are brought on request. Outside the opening hours, the Library continues to live through the unlimited access via internet from anyone's home. The knowledge is free and accessible to all.


Sunday, June 24, 2007



"frozen"

cast in frozen water - sphere is a void set in a cube of ice


/3dmax combined with Vray rendering engine/

www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/fullsize/?submission_id=629
www.cgsphere.com

Tuesday, June 19, 2007



"fallen sculpture"

fallen in the water of the fountain, once perfect... broken has its own beauty - its past added to its present..
the water of the fountain... continuing its life

/3dmax combined with Vray rendering engine/

www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/fullsize/?submission_id=3554
www.cgsphere.com

Friday, May 4, 2007

Media-Tic/extracts from the animation/night shoot

visualization for e-Cloud 9 architects, Barcelona

joint work with Ruben Alonso and Javier P. Contonente


Media-Tic/extracts from the animation/transparency change


visualization for e-Cloud 9 architects, Barcelona

joint work with Ruben Alonso and Javier P. Contonente


Media-Tic/extracts from the animation/daylight change


visualization for e-Cloud 9 architects, Barcelona

joint work with Ruben Alonso and Javier P. Contonente


Thursday, May 3, 2007

Media-Tic/nightime shoot/close up
Media-Tic/transparency change/close up

Media-Tic/daylight change/close up

Friday, April 20, 2007

Catania kindergarden/San Cristoforo Sud



concept model/catania/view 1


concept model/catania/view 2


concept model/catania/top view


concept model/catania/wider context

colaboration project with ZeroArchitecture Studio, Catania, 2007

www.zeroarchitecture.it

Friday, March 16, 2007


The Rainbow Pavilion - Rotterdam 2007


placed in the harbour of Rotterdam


something to dream about


proposal for the architectural folly - Rotterdam Biennale 2007

collaboration with Nicola Van Waegening