D_189 Form, Process,Êand theÊVirtual Dimension

JeffreyÊSipprell

Syracuse UniversityÊ

Student with: Professors Mark Linder, Terrence Goode, and Deborah AdamsÊ

Syracuse, New York - USA

A position in space can only be calculated continuously as a vectoral flow - Leibniz .

How does form configure itself in architecture today? What is the designer's role in this configuration? .The challenge for contemporary architectural theory and design is to try to understand the [contention] appearance of these tools in a more sophisticated way than as simply a new set of shapes. Issues of force, motion, and time, which have perennially eluded architectural description due to their 'vague essence,' can now be experimented with by supplanting the traditional tools of exactitude and stasis with tools of gradients, flexible envelopes, temporal flows and forces. (greg lynn) .The contention here is that architecture, here realized in the program of an air terminal at JFK International, should be designed in an active space of forces, fields, and flows, rather than an idealized space of stasis. Architecture will then become a configuration immersed within the dynamics of the virtual dimension - the abstract which can potentially be realized (movement, time, interaction). Animation software allows for this data to be put into interaction, the complex interrelations of parameters and forces being impossible to realize through conventional hand-drawing processes.Ê

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