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Une architecture des humeurs
AP193.S4
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Series 4, Une architecture des humeurs, 2008-2011, documents the conception and the presentation of exhibition and project Une architecture des humeurs. Presented at Le laboratoire art gallery in Paris between January and May 2010, Une architecture des humeurs is a conceptual, unbuilt, residential urban structure based on a potential future in which contemporary science reads human physiology and chemical balance. The idea is to acquire a chemistry of the “humors”, or the moods and temperament, of future purchasers. Taken as input, the information generates a diversity of habitable morphologies and relationships between them. With this process, the project attempts to make palpable and graspable, through technologies, the emotions of the participants captured via the chemistry of their body. The goal is to gather information on their capacity of adaptation, their level of sympathy and empathy while confronted to a situation or an environment. This information is then analyzed by computational, mathematical, and machinist procedures. This leads to the design and production of an urban structure submitted to the improbable and uncertain protocols produced by emotions, also creating aggregations and layouts that rearticulate the links between the individual and the collective. These structures are calculated following simultaneously incremental and recursive structural optimization protocols resulting in the physicality and morphology of architecture. The layout of the residential units and the structural trajectories are conceived and developed as posterior to the constructs supporting social life and not as an a priori. The structure of each components of the urban structure is generated by a secretion and weaving machine called Viab02. The machine is the second prototype of VIAB which was developed with Robotics Research Lab of the University of Southern California and takes its name from the terms viability and variability. With a process similar to contour crafting, the machine produces bio-cement, a mix between cement and bio-resin, giving form to the adapted residential structures. The records consist largely of images detailing the creative process of the firm, photographs of the exhibition, and 3D models. It also contains animated renderings representing the machine in action and sequences of the construction of the building or the structure. The records include a video orienting the project into François Roche theoretical stance, research as speculation, that can be summarize as the use of technological tools to take a critical and political position through esthetic in order to open new lines of thoughts. AP193.S2 contains updated previous version of the VIAB machine
2008-2011
Une architecture des humeurs
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AP193.S4
Description:
Series 4, Une architecture des humeurs, 2008-2011, documents the conception and the presentation of exhibition and project Une architecture des humeurs. Presented at Le laboratoire art gallery in Paris between January and May 2010, Une architecture des humeurs is a conceptual, unbuilt, residential urban structure based on a potential future in which contemporary science reads human physiology and chemical balance. The idea is to acquire a chemistry of the “humors”, or the moods and temperament, of future purchasers. Taken as input, the information generates a diversity of habitable morphologies and relationships between them. With this process, the project attempts to make palpable and graspable, through technologies, the emotions of the participants captured via the chemistry of their body. The goal is to gather information on their capacity of adaptation, their level of sympathy and empathy while confronted to a situation or an environment. This information is then analyzed by computational, mathematical, and machinist procedures. This leads to the design and production of an urban structure submitted to the improbable and uncertain protocols produced by emotions, also creating aggregations and layouts that rearticulate the links between the individual and the collective. These structures are calculated following simultaneously incremental and recursive structural optimization protocols resulting in the physicality and morphology of architecture. The layout of the residential units and the structural trajectories are conceived and developed as posterior to the constructs supporting social life and not as an a priori. The structure of each components of the urban structure is generated by a secretion and weaving machine called Viab02. The machine is the second prototype of VIAB which was developed with Robotics Research Lab of the University of Southern California and takes its name from the terms viability and variability. With a process similar to contour crafting, the machine produces bio-cement, a mix between cement and bio-resin, giving form to the adapted residential structures. The records consist largely of images detailing the creative process of the firm, photographs of the exhibition, and 3D models. It also contains animated renderings representing the machine in action and sequences of the construction of the building or the structure. The records include a video orienting the project into François Roche theoretical stance, research as speculation, that can be summarize as the use of technological tools to take a critical and political position through esthetic in order to open new lines of thoughts. AP193.S2 contains updated previous version of the VIAB machine
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2008-2011
Project
Commercial simulation model
AP027.S1.D60
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Development of a modelling technique with Conrad Research Corporation that could be used to examine the commercial structure of the City of Ottawa. The essence of this model is the determination of the retail potential of alternative areas throughout the Ottawa area.
urban planning
1972
Commercial simulation model
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AP027.S1.D60
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Development of a modelling technique with Conrad Research Corporation that could be used to examine the commercial structure of the City of Ottawa. The essence of this model is the determination of the retail potential of alternative areas throughout the Ottawa area.
File 60
1972
urban planning
Series
AP115.S4
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La série document le dôme géodésique Senneville Barn Dome, dit aussi The Barn Dome. Conçu par la firme Jeffrey Lindsay & Associates, il fut construction en 1954. La série contient une photographie montrant, depuis l'intérieur, la structure géodésique de bois dont l'un des triangles est recouvert d'une membrane de fibre de verre qui enveloppait la structure à l'origine, aujourd'hui disparue et remplacée par des feuilles de métal peint. On aperçoit de plus la silhouette d'un homme travaillant à assembler la structure, vraisemblablement le propriétaire du terrain et client John Hackney, qui a commandé à Jeffrey Lindsay (Montréal, 1924-Los Angeles, 1984), architecte, le dôme en question pour s'en servir comme étable. La photographie est accompagné d'un dossier documentaire contenant des photocopies de documents tirés des archives de Senneville (Plot Plan, Application for Permit to Build, Memorendum) et deux photographies récentes de l'édifice (Robert Duchesnay, photographe, avril 2004).
1954-2004
Senneville Barn Dome, Senneville, Québec
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AP115.S4
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La série document le dôme géodésique Senneville Barn Dome, dit aussi The Barn Dome. Conçu par la firme Jeffrey Lindsay & Associates, il fut construction en 1954. La série contient une photographie montrant, depuis l'intérieur, la structure géodésique de bois dont l'un des triangles est recouvert d'une membrane de fibre de verre qui enveloppait la structure à l'origine, aujourd'hui disparue et remplacée par des feuilles de métal peint. On aperçoit de plus la silhouette d'un homme travaillant à assembler la structure, vraisemblablement le propriétaire du terrain et client John Hackney, qui a commandé à Jeffrey Lindsay (Montréal, 1924-Los Angeles, 1984), architecte, le dôme en question pour s'en servir comme étable. La photographie est accompagné d'un dossier documentaire contenant des photocopies de documents tirés des archives de Senneville (Plot Plan, Application for Permit to Build, Memorendum) et deux photographies récentes de l'édifice (Robert Duchesnay, photographe, avril 2004).
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1954-2004
Project
Teatro-faro a Toronto
AP142.S1.D104
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File documents an executed project titled, "Teatro-faro", erected on the shore of Lake Ontario, in Toronto, Canada. The structure was later dismantled. Material in this file was produced approximately in 1988. File contains design development drawings.
[ca. 1988]
Teatro-faro a Toronto
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AP142.S1.D104
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File documents an executed project titled, "Teatro-faro", erected on the shore of Lake Ontario, in Toronto, Canada. The structure was later dismantled. Material in this file was produced approximately in 1988. File contains design development drawings.
File 104
[ca. 1988]
photographs
Portrait of Goldsmith
ARCH286280
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Note: This photo was used in the CCA exhibition "Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure", 1991
n.d.
Portrait of Goldsmith
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ARCH286280
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Note: This photo was used in the CCA exhibition "Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure", 1991
photographs
n.d.
photographs
Portrait of Goldsmith
ARCH219033
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Note: This photo was used in the CCA exhibition "Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure", 1991
n.d.
Portrait of Goldsmith
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ARCH219033
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Note: This photo was used in the CCA exhibition "Myron Goldsmith: Poet of Structure", 1991
photographs
n.d.
ARCH256546
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"U.S. pavilion is largest free-span circular structure in existence, more vast that Rome's Colosseum."
9 April 1958
View of the Pavilion of the United States, Expo 58, Brussels, Belgium
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ARCH256546
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"U.S. pavilion is largest free-span circular structure in existence, more vast that Rome's Colosseum."
photographs
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151 slide(s)
Transportation
ARCH218403
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including Bart San Francisco, metro stations Paris, Munich train shed elevated structure and Rome
Transportation
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ARCH218403
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including Bart San Francisco, metro stations Paris, Munich train shed elevated structure and Rome
photographs
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151 slide(s)
Project
BMW Pavilion
AP022.S1.1999.PR03
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File documents an exhibition pavilion with a hydrogen car filling station and a glass structure, Hanover, Germany. This project may have been for the Expo 2000 World Fair held in Hanover. File contains design development drawings.
circa 1999
BMW Pavilion
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AP022.S1.1999.PR03
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File documents an exhibition pavilion with a hydrogen car filling station and a glass structure, Hanover, Germany. This project may have been for the Expo 2000 World Fair held in Hanover. File contains design development drawings.
Project
circa 1999
Sub-series
AP032.S5.D3
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Colour slides taken by Goldsmith of places and buildings for lectures and teaching. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Includes views of buildings, infra-structure and engineering projects, city-scapes, works by Goldsmith and SOM, and pictures of Goldsmith's family.
1967-1983
Architects and Architecture Slides
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AP032.S5.D3
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Colour slides taken by Goldsmith of places and buildings for lectures and teaching. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Includes views of buildings, infra-structure and engineering projects, city-scapes, works by Goldsmith and SOM, and pictures of Goldsmith's family.
File 3
1967-1983