Designing with the immaterial

ABSTRACT

As a knowledge based practice UNStudio's approach is to link the practical experience within the demands of the global building market with a soft conceptual design and research approach, through which innovation constantly feeds back into and effectively interlaces practice with theory. UNStudio's approach to media content has developed into a tool that serves the purpose of enhancing specific qualities and architectural design parameters in order to add a communicative layer. The immaterial technology within the design is however not an isolated design task, but one of many design components, and therefore an integral element of the architectural system. The application of technology is understood to be similar to the computational methods that UNStudio employs as tools for designing, rather than generating design. Providing examples of this approach on different scales serves as a methodology for the investigation and underlines the process as a thread for the development of the design work, rather than merely presenting the results thereof.

References

1. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_2001:_A_Space_Odyssey
2. Ben van Berkel in 'Tools are Everything': Elke Krasny (Architekturzentrum Wien): The Force is in the Mind, The Making of Architecture; Birkhäuser, Wien, 2008
3. Ben van Berkel & Caroline Bos, Design Models, Thames & Hudson, London, 2006
4. Ger Gijzen, Tom Minderhoud, Interactive Public Spaces -- Amsterdam 2006, Future Screens (NL)
5. Ben van Berkel, Gerard Loozekoot with Filippo Lodi, Frans van Vuure and Deepak Jawahar, Alicia Casals, Hans Kooij, Wendy van der Knijff, Marie Prunault, Machiel Wafelbakker, Patrik Noome, Xing Xiong, 2011, VI Palazzo ENI, Milan (IT)
6. Ben van Berkel, Astrid Piber with Ger Gijzen and Martin Zangerl, Sontaya Bluangtook, Jooyoun Yoon, Shuang Zhang, Alberto Martinez, Luke Tan, Yi-Ju Tseng, Albert Gnodde, Philip Knauf, 2013, Hanwha HQ, Seoul (KR)
7. Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos with Astrid Piber, Ger Gijzen, Cristina Bolis, Markus Hudert, Colette Parras, Arjan van der Bliek, Christian Veddeler, Albert Gnodde, Richard Crofts, Barry Munster, Mafalda Bothelo, Elke Uitz, Harm Wassink, 2003, Galleria Department Store, Seoul (KR)
8. Ben van Berkel, Astrid Piber with Ger Gijzen, Marc Herschel and Marianthi Tatari, Sander Versluis, Albert Gnodde, Jorg Lonkwitz, Tom Minderhoud, Lee Jae-young, Woo Jun-seung, Constantin Boincean, Yu-chen Lin, 2009, Galleria Centercity, Cheonan (KR)
9. Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Ger Gijzen and Mo Lai, Konstantinos Chrysos, Ariane Stracke, Veronica Baraldi and Thomas van Bekhoven, Elisabeth Brauner, Rodrigo Cañizares, Luis Etchegorry, Albert Gnodde, Ka Shin Liu, Chiara Marchionni, Cynthia Markhoff, Tomas Mokry, Iris Pastor, Machiel Wafelbakker, Shuang Zhang, Jinming Feng, Xinyue Guo, Cheng Gong, 2012, Hanjie Wanda Square, Wuhan (CN)
10. Ben van Berkel, Gerard Loozekoot with Frans van Vuure, Filippo Lodi and Harlen Miller, Jan Kokol, Wendy van der Knijff, Todd Ebeltoft, Tina Kortmann, Patrik Noome, Jeroen den Hertog, Mariusz Polski, 2012, GOW -- Nippon Moon (JP)

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Arts and humanities

    • Architecture (buildings)