ARCHITECTURE@FUTUREIntroduction

DR. P. S. CHANIASSOCIATE PROFESSORDEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNINGIIT ROORKEE

LECTURE – 09.01.14

UMBERTO BOCCIONI, STATES OF MIND. THE FAREWELL, 1911

Set in a train station – explores psychological dimension of modern life's transitory nature. Boccioni captures chaotic movement and the fusion of people swept away in waves as the train's steam bellows into the sky. Oblique lines hint at departure in Those Who Go, in which Boccioni said he sought to express "loneliness, anguish, and dazed confusion." In Those Who Stay, vertical lines convey the weight of sadness carried by those left behind.

Manifesto of Futurist ArchitectureAntonio Sant’ Elia

Prophetic !Antonio Sant’Elia wrote:

"We no longer believe in the monumental, the heavy and static and have enriched our sensibilities with a taste for lightness, transience and practicality.”

"We must invent and rebuild ... our modern city like an immense ....shipyard, active, mobile and ... dynamic, and the modern building like a gigantic machine. Lifts must not longer hide away like solitary worms in the stairwells... but must swarm up the facades like serpents of glass and iron.”

La Citta Nuova, 1914, Central

Railway Station and Airport,

Antonio Sant Elia

Citta Nuova among earliest

depictions of an architecture

that glorifies technology of

concrete, steel and glass

Which gives dramatic external

expression to lift towers, girder

bridges, and elevated walkways

Apartment Buildingss ‘Casa a

Gradinate’, Antonio Sant ‘Elia

Greenwich Power Station The Power Station was built between 1902 & 1910 to provide power for the London tramway system, nowadays it serves as a backup for the London Underground.

Jarrow Palmers Shipyard C.1910

Electrical Power Station, Antonio Sant’Elia

Futurist City, Antonio Sant’Elia

Computer visualisation of one of Sant’Elia’s sketches

lakov Chernikhov's "Fantasies"

lakov Chernikhov's "Fantasies"

lakov Chernikhov's "Fantasies"

lakov Chernikhov's "Fantasies"

lakov Chernikhov's "Fantasies"

lakov Chernikhov's "Fantasies"

lakov Chernikhov's "Fantasies"

Pravda Building Project, Moscow, A.Vesnin, 1923

FUTURISM

ELEVATORSLifts must swarm up the facades like serpents of glass and iron

FUTURISM

The house of cement, iron and glass,

without curved or painted ornament,

extraordinarily brutish in its mechanical

simplicity…..

That Futurist

architecture is the

architecture of

calculation, of

audacious temerity and

of simplicity; the

architecture of

reinforced concrete, of

steel, glass …..

FUTURISM

…we must exploit our roofs and put our basements to work; depreciate the importance of facades

FUTURISM

Let us sink the streets and squares

FUTURISM

..street will…plunge many stories down into the earth, embracing the metropolitan traffic …linked up for necessary interconnections by metal gangways and swift moving pavements

ESCALATORS

PASTBuildings solid, monumental

Built to ‘last forever’

Pyramids

PRESENT

Buildings with slender members

Transparency, light and open structures

Built to ‘last a finite period of time’

HSBC

Demolished & Rebuilt – a new building for a new generation

Future

Buildings with adaptability

Capacity to change with use and evolve with time

Built to have ‘indefinite life spans’

Several smaller ‘life spans’ within this ‘undefined period’

Holoskins

Moving towards an adaptable, evolvable and ecological built environment

CHE BANCA! PREMISES, MILAN, CREA INTERNATIONAL, 2008

KOMOYO-JI TEMPLE, SAIJO,

JAPAN, TADAO ANDO,

1999-2000

3,222 sqm. Site; total floor

area = 1,287 sqm.

Intended reconstruction of

existing temple

Design doesnot strictly adhere

to religious tradition

BUT

Wooden forms not alien to

Japanese temple architecture

THUS

Link between traditional

Japanese wooden temple

architecture and architect’s

contemporary design

concepts

KOMOYO-JI TEMPLE, SAIJO, JAPAN, TADAO ANDO, 1999-2000

Though permission given to demolish existing main gate and bell tower,

architect chose to conserve both - CONSERVATION

FEDERAL BUILDING AND UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE, ARIZONA, USA, 1998-2000, RICHARD MEIER

THE ATHENEUM, NEW HARMONY, INDIANA, USA, 1975-79; RICHARD MEIER

LA EYEWORKS STORE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA, 2001-02, NEIL DENARI

SUN MICROSYSTEMS CONCEPT PROJECTS, 2001, NEIL DENARI

SUN MICROSYSTEMS CONCEPT PROJECTS, 2001, NEIL DENARI

TRANS-PORTS, 1999-2001, OOSTERHUIS.NL

ROTATING SKYSCRAPER, DUBAI, DAVID FISHER

TRANS-PORTS, 1999-2001, OOSTERHUIS.NL

MASONS BEND COMMUNITY CENTER, ALABAMA, USA, 1999-2000, SAMUEL MOCKBEE AND RURAL STUDIO

THEN

NOW

Low profile building with rammed earth base

Extremely low budget

Roof – 80 Chevy Caprice windshields -$120

Structural steel donated

Total cost - $20,000/-

Maintaining the original footprint

E N E R G Y E F F I C I E N T B U I L D I N G S

MASDAR HQ BUILDING, ABU DHABI, ADRIAN SMITH AND GORDON GILL

ENERGY+ BUILDINGS

TREE TOWER Architect claims - will

behave like a tree

“It’s a building that receives

its energy from the sun, that

grows food, that builds soil,

that provides a habitat for

hundreds of species, that

changes colours with the

seasons, that creates

micro-climates, that would

purify water,”

“A building that would do

just about everything a tree

can do except self-

replicate”

ROTATING SKYSCRAPER, DUBAI, DAVID FISHER

Dubai has some 4,000 hours of wind annually With that kind of wind generating power, the tower will get all the annual power it

needs from just 4 turbines and Other 44 will send power to support Dubai’s power grid

containedhttp://wwwlRmETdwp

SOLAR-PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANT

MASDAR, ABU DHABI, FOSTER + PARTNERS

ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION 37000 MWH/YR. ; 15MW PEAK USAGE

WIND TURBINE GENERATES ELECTRICITY

PHOTOVOLTAICS GENERATE

ELECTRICITY

SUBSTATION

WIND DIRECTION

ENERGY STRATEGY

WASTE HEAT GENERATES POTABLE WATER SUPPLY

HV ELECTRICITY PRODUCED BY COMBINED HEAT AND POWER (CHP) PLANT

CO2 EMISSIONS

Movies and Architecture

Equibilirium

Movies and Architecture

• Futuristic movies of Hollywood have always given great focus on the architecture of the mentioned era. Equilibrium is different from all those conventional futuristic imaginations, because the core of the architectural concepts of the movie lies in Soviet or fascist style of architecture.

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Movies and Architecture• Equilibrium presents a vision of a world at

peace, with a tremendous human cost. This is a world where war is a distant memory, yet where there is no music, no art, no poetry, where anyone who partakes in such banned activities is guilty of a “Sense Offense,” a crime that carries a death sentence. It is a world where the age-old question “How do you feel?” can never be answered because all feelings have been shut out.

Movies and Architecture

• Libria, the main focal point of the movie is a stark, black-and-white metropolis, which is run by a tyrannous dictator named the Father who wields power through a group of Ninja-like “clerics” who enforce his vision of peace through the chemical control of all emotion.

Movies and Architecture

• The city of Libria in Equilibrium presents a controlled state taken to its extremes. The emotion suppressing state’s agenda is clearly expressed through the city’s architecture. Buildings, like the people that inhabit them are faceless and devoid of any feeling.

Movies and Architecture

Equibilirium

Movies and Architecture• The fascist’s states media

manipulative machine is inbuilt into the infrastructure of the city: giant billboards overtake whole build facades, and loud speakers that air a constant stream of propaganda are located at every corner.

Movies and Architecture

Equibilirium

Movies and Architecture

Bladerunner

Movies and Architecture

Bladerunner

Movies and Architecture

Bladerunner

Movies and Architecture

Bladerunner

Movies and Architecture

Bladerunner

Movies and Architecture

Bladerunner

Movies and Architecture

Metropolis

Movies and Architecture

Metropolis

Movies and Architecture

Gattaca

Marian Civic Center, San Rafael, California, 1957; F.L. Wright

Marian Civic Center

Gattaca

Gattaca

Marian Civic Center

Movies and Architecture

Minority Report

Minority Report

Movies and Architecture

Minority Report

Movies and Architecture

Minority Report

Information flow

Minority Report

Minority Report

Minority Report

• While government buildings ..hostile and metallic, the grass in the city .. still green, and historic row houses still stand …presenting the post-modernist possibility of harmony between the old and the new

Movies and Architecture

• Integration of infrastructure and cityscape …….perfected here.

• A transport network of magnetic levitation vehicles seamlessly built into facades of most …buildings .

• It seems that buildings and vehicles exist to complement each other.

Movies and Architecture

• Inclining highways form part of façades dropping like waterfalls and merging with horizontal roads

• Network of highways functions in all 3 dimensions , as road surface totally abandons its dependence on gravity.

• Such seamless flow of traffic would be able to take care of any amount of traffic judiciously because of limitless possibilities in use of the 3rd dimension of space.

Movies and Architecture

Movies and Architecture

Minority Report