Concepts, types, models

1. Concepts, types, models

2. Ways to Study and Researchurban, architectural and technical design • CONTENTS • Introduction • Naming and describing • Design research andtypology • Evaluating • Modelling • Programming and optimising • Technical Study • Design Study • Study by design • Epilogue Empirical research Studybydesign

3. BK8030 assignments 9-12 before April 12th publish what kind of: • types useful for design your comparison could produce; • design concepts you could derive from the objects you published; • models you could make of the objects you published; • programmes you can read from the published images;

4. Concept, type, model, programme? Found by Tzonis (1999) figure 42 on page 89

5. Concept(ion) and type A concept(ion): • has no form; • is a theme transferabe to others; • it organises design choices; • it is transferable in words, schemes and reference images; • it pervades a design into the details.

6. Examples of concepts Le Corbusier, sketch of the concept of his ‘Unité’ MVRDV, scheme of the concept for admission lodges on the ‘Hoge Veluwe’. ‘Transform the same type in brick, steel and wood.’

7. Types • Blue houses are a category • Cubic houses are a category • Blue, cubic houses are a type • A type combines incomparable categories, like form and colour, • or beautiful, sturdy and useful.

8. Typical theatres prototype type Semper, Bayreuth Scala, Milan Rossi, Genua OMA, The Hague

9. Are types models? • Are types and concept(ion)s on their way to become a design also models? • Klaasen (2002): ‘Yes!’ • Quatremère de Quincy (1890?): ‘No! A type cannot be copied or realized as a model can.’ • Leupen (Chapter 13): a type has to be transformed into a model by design to get the possibility to be realized. • A concept can not be realized either before it is elaborated: it only organises design choices.

10. Models according to Klaasen Chapter 22 • Any imagination ready to be communicated is a model. • Such a representation can be presented as a verbal, mathematical, spatial or mechanical model.

11. Use models to clarify a • description (research); • explication (research); • prediction (research) or an • intention (planning study); • exploration (design study).

12. Do not confuse model and reality(Klaasen Chapter 22) Models reduce reality by: • culture and individual preferences into a representation as a bordered system; • scientific culture and individual objectives into interacting sub-systems; • concious, relevant simplification into the representation of the model.

13. There are types of models,but are there models of types? • Is any transferable idea a model? • A type can be transfered in words or a diagram. • Leupen (Ch. 13): Types should be transformed into models by design.

14. Examples of models Verbal Mathematical Spatial Mechanical

15. Spatial models for evaluation

16. Verbal models ‘Topfloor without Bottomfloor… ‘Topfloor and Bottomfloor… ‘Topfloor… ‘Bottomfloor without Topfloor… ‘Only Topfloor or Bottomfloor… ‘Bottomfloor… ‘Topfloor or Bottomfloor… ‘Not Bottomfloor… … ‘If Topfloor than Bottomfloor… is closed.

17. A mathematical model

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