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Mark Foster Gage: Architecture in High Resolution [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x178 mm, kaal: 1708 g, 480 Illustrations, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Aug-2022
  • Kirjastus: Oro Editions
  • ISBN-10: 1954081499
  • ISBN-13: 9781954081499
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 512 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x178 mm, kaal: 1708 g, 480 Illustrations, color
  • Ilmumisaeg: 09-Aug-2022
  • Kirjastus: Oro Editions
  • ISBN-10: 1954081499
  • ISBN-13: 9781954081499

In the course of a ten-month invited competition Mark Foster Gage Architects, using tools ranging from artificial intelligence to 3D fractal software, re-invented the design languages of the ancient Nabatean civilization located on the Arabian Peninsula to propose the first Saudi resort in the modern era that would be open for international tourists. Isolated in a vast desert, with little infrastructure and virtually no visitors, lie the ancient ruins of Mada’in Saleh, and the site for the project.


With five-hundred pages and over 1,500 images this is a book that documents the design process of this project, complete with all of its ideas, misdirections, failures, restarts, breakthroughs, and everything in-between. Of interest to architects and non-architects alike, this book heralds a new generation of creative techniques and design technologies that promise to redefine how we think of the past, present and future of the built environment in the 21st century and beyond.

Initium vi
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Graham Harman
Introduction
Mark Foster Gage
I Sojourn To Saudi Arabia
1(9)
Meetings in Riyadh Historic Ad Diriyah
II The Context Of Antiquity
10(26)
From Riyadh to Al Ula Ancient Mada'in Saleh Pristine ruins in sandstone On being purposefully lost in the desert
III Drawing Terroir
36(24)
Sketches from the desert Selecting a site by helicopter Ideation through digital drawing
IV A Venerable Geology
60(26)
Program requirements and deviations Sand, sandstone, sand and even more sand Sustainable engineering and analysis Power generation and infrastructure Reviving a historic stone carving industry Sketching architecture into rocks Modeling the site topography in clay Modeling the site topography with software
V Access Without Roads
86(24)
Fusing the geometrical and the topographical Desert vehicle approaches to the resort Circulating through sandstone escarpments The still life: prayer towers and incense garden Hiding ancillary programs from view
VI Every Room With A View
110(16)
Calculating residential unit arrays and stacks Sketch sizing residential unit interiors Rocks jutting into clean aesthetic interiors Digital models of unit types Selected floor plans in more detail Sketch revisions and material iterations Final renderings of suite interiors
VII Rediscovering Ancient Design Languages
126(14)
Dadanite and Nahatean design Bedouin and Saudi design A regional history of craft Mastering fractal recursion (PR) Mastering artificial intelligence (AI) From historic patterns to a new formal language
VIII Artificial Intelligence And Fractal Recursion
140(54)
Inventing a new language of architecture From history to 3D fractal sponges From 3D fractal sponges to deep 2D Fusing the old and new Translating Al and FR into 3D volumes
IX Multi-Use Towers
194(38)
Towers for observation and filtration Extrusions via AI and FR into vertical forms Iterations of towers to develop techniques Rebuilding selected towers in higher resolution Choreographing circulation knots Coiling circulation around towers
X Architecture In Its Highest Resolution
232(46)
Tennis exchanges between 2D and 3D High resolution 2D to 3D conversion techniques Architectural language prototypes The reception cube test Iterations to develop formal control 3D printing in metal to study intricacy Material research Next-generation stone carving
XI Core Workout
278(56)
Circulation through central amenities core Circulation knots as Beaux-Arts marche Back ot house circulation systems Reconstructed core with new design language Framing key guest vantage points Initial site sections Wall aesthetics for public spaces High-resolution facade languages Restaurant court development Shading and pools Circulation knots redesigned Materials for different building types Complex restaurant vaulting The aesthetics of circulation Integration with complex topography Fractal and AI ceiling and vaults The outdoor radiator vault Final core form set
XII Building In Geology
334(12)
Rustications for isolated buildings Fractal/AI rustication Developing formal control of techniques Buildings nestled into ravines Geological and architecture interiors
XIII Hidden Architecture Made For Seeing
346(34)
Remote desert viewing and shading structures Abstracted cultural visitation facility Interior outdoor spaces Hidden desert mini-pavilions
XIV Aesthetic Choreography
380(24)
Framed views via circulation Selecting views for final images All elevations compiled Final aesthetic details considered An experiment with algorithmic etching In-house test renderings Final rendering collaboration
XV Colors, Materials And Textures
404(24)
Digital materials Monolithic material tests FR / AI interior tiling in 2D Reception cube interior tests Different color palettes for resort areas Circulation, bridges and arcades Vaulting from ancient Dadanite script
XVI The Presentation Model
428(10)
Final CNC milled model base in high-density foam 3D-printed brass for public buildings Model photographs of final presentation Masterplan drawing of final model arrangement
XVII Isolated Luxury Villas
438(16)
A standardized but flexible villa system Sketches of a standard remote villa Observation towers for premium villas Topographical villa scenarios Final villa floor plans Final aerial view of a standard villa
XVIII Final Boarding
454(10)
Seven Al final presentation boards Resort tower at sunset
XIX Final Booklet
464(12)
The 53-page competition booklet Resort observatory at night
XX Coda
476
The final presentation experiences Life during a competition
Mark Foster Gage is the principal of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York City, as well as a writer, design contributor for CNN, and tenured professor at the Yale University School of Architecture where he has taught since 2001. His previous books include: Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011); Mark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations (Rizzoli, 2018); Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy (Routledge, 2018); Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy (The MIT Press, 2019); Composites, Surfaces, and Software: High Performance Architecture (Yale School of Architecture / Norton, 2011).