My Concise Authentic Introduction

[Bsquared510]

Hey everyone, just found out about this through some MBTI enthusiasts. I actually prefer the enneagram (me = 5w4) because it has stress and growth states.

Since I was 8, I’ve loved the connection between abstract art and math, logic and creativity. I believe my contribution on here is specific to wisdom of abstract descriptions involving shapes, processes, and natural numbers. Feel free to challenge me with any and all questions pertinent to these areas. I have 2 Master’s degrees. One in Architecture and one in “Science of Architecture” specialized in Computational Design.

 

[Cognisant]

If I share a house design I made in Sweet Home 3D can I get a Gordon Ramsay style critique? I'd love to hear everything I've done wrong from a master of his field, as profanely as possible (it amuses me) but whatever your prefer.

 

[birdsnestfern]

Hey, and Welcome to the forum!
Are you from East, West, North or South?
I'm guessing South because you're using the word Hey!
I like all of those subjects, but when you say Computational design, I'm not sure I know about that.
Are you talking about Fractals?
I was thinking Computerized, and Savannah comes to mind, ie, SCAD. Am I close?

If you are searching for house designs, Carmel by the Sea has some that are awesome.
I don't really know how to ask you questions, but that is very cool and welcome.

 

[dr froyd]

is computer-aided design good or bad for creativity

 

[Drvladivostok]

What is your opinion on modernist architecture?

How does the field of architecture answer the value based question of what type of architectural movement is good or bad? is it entirely detached from such notions?

 

[Bsquared510]

If I share a house design I made in Sweet Home 3D can I get a Gordon Ramsay style critique? I'd love to hear everything I've done wrong from a master of his field, as profanely as possible (it amuses me) but whatever your prefer.

Yeah, I think that would be kind of fun! I've never tried acting out Gordon Ramsay but I think I would enjoy it!

 

[Bsquared510]

Hey, and Welcome to the forum!
Are you from East, West, North or South?
I'm guessing South because you're using the word Hey!
I like all of those subjects, but when you say Computational design, I'm not sure I know about that.
Are you talking about Fractals?
I was thinking Computerized, and Savannah comes to mind, ie, SCAD. Am I close?

If you are searching for house designs, Carmel by the Sea has some that are awesome.
I don't really know how to ask you questions, but that is very cool and welcome.

I'm actually from North, but I was just going to school in South.

Computational Design is basically the study of how abstract descriptions of processes and of sequences of operations create shapes and geometry that qualify as designs. Mainly in architecture for me. It is a field that goes back to the 1980's with first academic recognition in the 1990's and my bias would be that it really took off in 2007 when Rhino 3D Design software along with its coding plugin Grasshopper was invented and on the market. The main takeaway about computational design for a novice is that it is not a search for truth, but rather a search for process descriptions and designs. It is a field that allows freedom of play and experimentation independent of all truth seeking and yet searching for abstract foundational truths has its rewards.

Fractals are definitely a part of CD. They embody organic progressions and similarity transformations.

That does look like a pleasant house design with a variety of spatial experiences.

 

[Bsquared510]

is computer-aided design good or bad for creativity

It depends on what your preferences are for exercising a creative process:

On one hand, If you are a pen-and-paper purist who can't stand computer tools, then CAD is definitely a detriment in terms of learning new clunky processes that impede what you want to express through your heart and soul. It's best to allow your trained craftsman's hand to express rather than subjecting the hands to constantly learning new tools.

On another level, If you are interested in principles and concepts of abstract processes and operations and use pen and paper to explore these (me), then CAD accompanied with coding and scripting can open up worlds of possibilities of feature-based phenomena that would be too tedious and inconvenient to arrive at by hand drawing. Said feature-based phenomena can draw off of knowledge from any scientific discipline including Biology, Ecology, Chemistry, and Physics as all use diagrams and data to understand the nature of empirical phenomena.

To constructively speculate: The larger issue behind your question comes down to human perception in relation to the human hand. If a person has good procedural memories for what to do with their hands to create artwork in a specific style, then CAD is merely a technical conversion tool to realize hand-made works in a different medium. If the eye leads the creative exploration, then both declarative (words and symbols) and procedural (body movement process) memory come into play for the eye has scanning rhythms that dance across the page on which any design may be displayed. The desire is to understand and control how the eye works and this has been simulated on computer software that I was just working with at Georgia Tech. But the more you try to control creativity the less generous its entertaining outputs become. Creativity is always subject to the wildness of the mood. That's why if you are interested in abstract operations and know CAD, you can know which exploratory process suits your current mood which brings me full circle to my opening point.

 

[Bsquared510]

What is your opinion on modernist architecture?

How does the field of architecture answer the value based question of what type of architectural movement is good or bad? is it entirely detached from such notions?

I guess my opinion is that it was inevitable and we all must cope with it privileging abstraction and geometry, especially as technology advances. Trying to design architecture from a different more wholesome time is a nice ideal, but since the enlightenment, I believe abstract understanding upstages feelings produced by visual complexity, though the latter are sometimes good for insight and relaxation.

Usually architecture as an academic field addresses this through political theorization such that if an architectural movement is salubrious for a society or is a utilitarian product of a bull-nosed will for progress in one direction. I think the idea of remaining detached depends on which architect you talk to as it is in their preferences for ambiguity over staunch pragmatism or vice versa. (Architects tend to disagree a lot because they are in that category that is forced to think about social impact at a larger scale rather than it being a natural product of the nature of their field, like urban planners for example).

 

[dr froyd]

i don't know much about architecture, but my impression is that it has indeed become more focused on "abstract understanding" rather than the apparent aesthetics. That's a problem, because if architects have no opinion/appreciation of the apparent aesthetics of a building - i.e. what you can see with the naked eye without knowing the theory/concept behind it - it means that most of the uninitiated populace (like myself) will be looking at some stuff that is difficult to appreciate

 

[Cognisant]

Conceptually it's like a chest fridge/freezer, double walls on all four sides with sand between them, for insulation and thermal mass, and the house is entered via the deck and above the deck is a raised roof.

Right-click the image below and open it on a new tab to see it better and ignore the compass, I wasn't really paying attention to that.

The walls are made of standard cinder/besser blocks. I'm focusing a lot on thermal insulation because inland Australia fluctuates between dangerous heatwaves and bitterly cold winter nights, and that can change by which way the wind is blowing. So having a home that is thermally stable is both a matter of comfort and energy efficiency. With the thick walls and elevated roof cover it should be trivial to keep the place cool, and with an evacuated tube hot water system heating it up during the day and retaining that heat is equally trivial.

Windows hold no appeal for me, if I'm moving out rural to build a home on my own block of land, and my home has a massive open air deck, if I want to be outside I'll just go outside. Nothing frustrates me more than people who build houses with tons of windows, in the suburbs where most of those windows are facing a tiny backyard, a fence 1.5m away, or out front where people are walking/driving by so you keep the blinds pulled to protect privacy. It's absurd.

In terms of flooring I'm thinking faux wood vinyl, my Dad had that installed at his previous place and I was really impressed with it. The stuff looked real enough but was ever so slightly soft underfoot which really cut down on noise, and it was easy to mop and vacuum.

Noise is another think I really care about, as I currently live in an apartment so I'm constantly hearing my neighbors cough, fart, fuck, flush, shower, shout, shit and sneeze.