Readings & Keywords

HUGHES_The Architecture of Error_Intro

MAY_Everything is Already an Image

FORD_The Architectural Detail_Ch 4

KEYWORDS

Error: the micro and minor in the physical environment that plagues materialization. It is between designed and created, but not severe enough to be material failure. It includes splintering, slumping, deterioration, etc.

Precision: the condition of being close to the real value consistently and repeatedly. It is exact in its details and controls error.

Modeled Lines: work plane-based elements that exist in 3D space and are visible in all views (as opposed to Modeled Elements.

Detail Lines: work plane-based elements that exist in 2D space and are visible in the view they are “drawn” (modeled) in.

Representation: static drawings that represent the past.

Presentation: dynamic images presented in real-time.

Orthography: simultaneously a text and a drawing or a form of “linear” graphism”.

Post-Orthography: simultaneously an image and a model or an electrical image and electrical model mapped onto one another.

Drawings: consist of hand-mechanical gestures that inscribe or deposit geometric, rule-bound marks on a stable surface.

Image: the outputs energetic energetic processes defined by signalization, and these signals, in their accumulation, are what we mean when we say data.

Pseudo-Orthography: is not at all “fake”, but instead indicates the residual psychology of orthography laboring in the absence of its own technical-gestural basis.

Automation: in post-orthography is released from the prison of endless rotation and moves into thinner realms, into the topological and electrical, in processes concealed from perception by their size and speed.

System Family: basic elements that you would assemble on a construction site such as walls, roofs, and floors.

Loadable Family: used to create Building components that would usually be purchased as well as some annotation elements such as windows, doors, casework, fixtures, furniture, and planting.

In-Place Family: unique elements that you create when you need to create a unique component that is specific to the project such as a truss in the Agricultural Heritage Museum.

Modeled Elements: three-dimensional objects (families) placed behind the section cut that are automatically categorized according to their role in a system (as opposed to modeled lines).

Displaced Elements: three-dimensional objects that are connected through material or systemic relationships, but have been pulled apart in order to expose relationships hidden behind the displaced element.

Cut Elements: three-dimensional objects hidden by a section box or oriented view because it is not a part of the image’s hierarchy or it is repeated elsewhere in the image.

Section Box: section boxes limit the geometry shown in the three-dimensional view.

Displaced Views: show displaced elements, which are connected using displacement lines.

Cut Views: show cut elements (through a section box, etc.), which hide lines and elements instead of deleting them.

Stitched Views: plan, section, and three-dimensional vies that have been combined and layered onto one sheet. This view is as much a construction as the building itself.

Selective Detailing: the detail’s intent is to be the paradigm of the construction of the building as a whole, but also a highly deceptive one (example: Zaha Hadid’s detailing),

Animated Joint: elements are as much sculptural as they are architectural and for some the expression of an inner force (example: a Volute).

Articulated Joint: independent parts that are perceptibly independent.

Adjacent Joint: parts are perceptible as parts, but no emphasis is given to their joining.

Dissonant Joint: non-supporting and non-connecting; it denies the force of gravity where it would seem most needed.

Autonomous Detail: information that has for the most part been suppressed is suddenly brought forward or exaggerated (example: symbolism).