Team is composed by :
Bigou Laurine, Chawaf Nadja, Nau Joévin
I – Protocol
For this protocol we invented a game to create a word path on the site of Vincennes‘ forest.
In the end, you have one path of words through the site. We created three paths, that means each word appears now three times on the site.
By connecting them different triangles evolve :
For the next step towards the transformation, we clustered the words and defined a hierarchy. This hierarchy should represent the most important components of an architecture school, the ones less important and the last ones which are very flexible and even exchangeable.
Following our protocol, all words form triangles. Those triangles have relationships to each other.
You can build clusters in the model to show three-dimensional relationships.
II – Transformation
1st solution:
The four titel words form the frame: exchange, research, innovation an technic. The pillars represent the words in the second line. The first four words may never be exchanged, they form the most important frame of an architecture school – nowadays and for the future. The pillar words may be exchanged but it takes effort to do so. Even though all the words are connected to each other, you can highlight the connection between the 8 solid words with the third hierarchy word. you can lift out the connection between exchange and innovation by using the word « mode » as a connection. This model can be used to visualize an architecture school’s program.
2nd solution:
The words now clustered in four branches – some words occuring in multiple ones, we could observe two major groups emerging:
– The Technic / Innovation pole, designed to shelter all the technical and practical knowledge, also focusing on all things computer related such as CAD and BIM with numeric models and parametric design.
– The Research / Exchange pole, dedicated to the theoretical practices of architecture and the transmission of knowledge, and also the aspect of communication and exchanging of information and culture between students and teaching professionnals.
Using those two groups we could define the backbones of our future school. Not forgetting about the previously obtained triangles, we used the length of their different segments to build two tensegrity models, they were designed to represent the two major poles of the school and the deep relationship that bonded them. Then we scaled the triangles of the other words remaining according to the importance that we put into, and printed them so that we could build them with straws of color:
– Yellow for Expression-Communication, green for Culture-Exchange – linked with the yellow tensegrity model
– Orange for Digital-CAO-BIM, purple for Technic-Engineering – linked with the red tensegrity model
Each word-triangle could then be placed freely in the right tensegrity model, defining the relationship between them as we want to ; and both the tensegrity models could also be super-imposed freely to even more complexify the relationship between our futur programs.
