tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3546535602464751362023-11-16T11:23:24.467+00:00nicolas rodriguez' [self-assembling] blogNicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-2140885546305258292011-02-22T14:54:00.000+00:002011-02-22T14:55:21.179+00:00<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">by: </span>Neil Spiller</span></span></h3><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For Architectural Education and Fighting Ubiquitous Fashion<br /><br />"A building project...has to be substantially completed before construction can begin. In order to live up to these imperatives and yet be capable of innovation, some contemporary architects have sought to collapse "theory" and "practice" in new "algorithmic" processes of design that avoid subjective "judgement" and produce novelty through instrumental mathematical operations. Made possible by powerful computers and ingenious software, the new algorithmic magic creates novelty without love, resulting in short-lived seduction, typically without concern for embodied cultural experience, character, and appropriateness" Alberto Perez Gomez (1) The term "Cyberoque" is probably ten years old. It was predicated on the notion that the new virtual technologies would blow life into architecture and we would head off to a new architecture of billowing surfaces, voluptuous skins and seductive invaginations. Indeed, the formal articulations that are possible to the contemporary architect are much increased, albeit mostly in a familiar series of articulations begat by similar software applications. Much has been sacrificed to this formal necromancy and this includes properly articulated plans, expedient economic structural logics and the exquisite dovetailing of form and programme. Unfortunately all these tropes and trends lead us not to an architectural world of individual liberation, unleashed creativity and empowerment but to a world of ubiquity and a lack of self-critical engagement in the process of design and, most crucially of all, a lacuna of human communication through architecture that engages the human condition in all its myriad complexities and desires. Alberto Perez- Gomez's work is a shining beacon that advocates the erotic, the love-ly and the poetic possibilities of architecture. Most contemporary architects shy away from these exuberant notions and are content to hide like children under corporate skirts.<br /><br />During the last five years the MArch Architectural Design AVATAR Course has been developing a large and dense series of theoretical projects that address some of the surreal possibilities of the new technologies in response to ideas of individuality, mnemonics, poetics, machinery and the history of art and architecture. We are living in an era of millennial ecstasy, we are now cast forever out of our skins. We are transparent, elsewhere and smeared across our world, our digital or visceral smudge visible and vulnerable. Our new architectures search for an ecstasy of creation, a choreography of chance, the liberation of particularity and a dislocation of the designer self, `I got mine, get yours! in a world where all is possible, the question is begged: Are you doing anything that really needs to be done or are you blinded by the sweet caress of the digital delirium, the warm embrace of the hyper connected, disconnected spectacle? It sucks you dry, adapting to your every action, and growing stronger bit by bit. Now is the time to think differently. All our post-modern desire is good for is an obsession with Apples and BlackBerrys � Digital Fruit. We desire the exceptional, we want to be different, and we want all things to have a special relationship with us. We make our world by desiring within it. We should build our architecture with desire.</span></span></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-14014114336569121702010-12-13T12:33:00.010+00:002010-12-13T12:42:20.868+00:00ARCHITECTURE & SCALE<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The London Based Collective <span class="Apple-style-span"><b><a href="http://eat-collective.com/">EAT</a></b></span></span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, of which I am part of, gave a Lecture in Greewinch University last friday invited by Professor Neil Spiller and Phil Watson</span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. This essay, on Architecture and Scale, was part of that lecture</span></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Scale entails a deep history in architectural practice, rooted in the resolution of scope that architects decide to use: continents, oceans, cities, buildings, rooms, carpets, micro-landscapes and medico-landscapes. In contemporary architecture scale is no longer a standardized order in the classical sense, but is used as an ordering system that can stem from musical theory, number patterns, ratios, mathematical equations an a myriad of more abstract and sometimes even mystical investigations. EAT operates and places itself within four distinctive relational parameters of scale, these are: the micro-scale, the medium or human scale, macro-scale and moment-time scale. Rapid developments in technology in the areas of biology, nano-technology, chemistry and medicine have demanded the attention of architecture and are being investigated by architects using design as a research method to explore and manipulate actual biological material sometimes at the molecular level. Biological and natural principles have long been used as a model in architecture in a variety of ways, anthropomorphic principles have long been applied to buildings supposedly establishing a formal link between nature and architecture.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The following 3 projects, of which the first is Adam Phillips’s “The 3rd Degree; Secrecy & the Consequences of Promiscuous Technology”, developed as part of the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Lab, were conceived through a bottom-up approach to architectural design; using living technologies at the micro-scale, most of them viewable only through the microscope, the designers generated proposals that travelled in scale from the petri dish to a building, an industrial district and ultimately the vast North Pacific Ocean.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Adam’s is a research based design project that stemmed from earlier fascination and research in self-organizing, bottom-up biological systems and how they could possibly influence new parameters within architecture. It started in a micro-biology lab where the growth, documentation and analysis of slime mould encouraged the creation of a speculative architectural living technology, a Material Internet, where the cellular rhythm of slime-mould was harnessed as a biological social-networking system and accessed and deployed through the alchemical relationship it has with gold, essentially communicating through the gold surfaces within Freemason’s Hall, in London’s Covent Garden. As a living technology, it is reliant on atmospheric changes to flourish or hibernate. Changes that are induced by fluctuations with light, temperature and moisture, are quintessential environmental elements used as a method of control by the way a human engages it through an architectural interaction with their body at incremental points in the building. Through the body’s senses, and the technology that senses the body, this scale of interaction is used as a moment, an event, designed by the architect at the microscopic, cellular-scale, intending for the consequences of the users interaction with it to be spread throughout the architectural body of the building.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The second project, designed by Ju, examines the reconciliation between the industrial society and the natural world, presented as a fictional narrative that articulates a cyanobacteria growing as an architectural first aid kit, in the abandoned and deteriorated district of Silvertown in East London. Once again, this project begins at the micro-scale, it uses chemical equipments and biological knowledge instead of conventional architectural methods and develops from scientific phenomenon and theory, using computer scripting, low technological experiments and an elaborate narrative to produce a metabolic material technology. This semi-living unicellular organism is fertilized using a simple combination of cyanobacteria as sperm, and protocells acting as ovum. When the embryos mature, the organisms multiply rapidly and then absorb existing building materials such like limestone, brick and concrete while rebuilding a new structure. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The speed at which this occurs is relatively is low, but by operating the system on a much larger area, a London district,Ju enables the effects to be felt and realized on an urban scale. The project performs as an environmental first-aid kit to protect London against future flooding. This narrative is visualized through the intense and emotional drawings depicting the system as a whole, its various organs, and the dream that comes with imagining a new type of sustainable architecture.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My project, Plastic Fantastic, as with the previous projects was designed through a bottom up approach, analyzing in the fist instance mineralization processes, specifically the process of crystallization, as the project developed, the specific self-assembling qualities of molecules during the process of crystallization were of special interest and became central to the project. Self-assembly is defined: the autonomous organization of components into patterns or structures without human intervention. Self-assembling processes are common throughout nature and technology. They involve components from the molecular scale (crystals) to the planetary scale (weather systems) and many different kinds of interactions. The concept of self assembly is used increasingly in many disciplines, with a different flavor and emphasis in each. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Research and exploration with self–assembling processes makes evident how scale, both in size and time, is an essential element to investigate in order to develop a bottom-up design approach to an architectural proposal. The study of natural phenomena, like the giant crystals of the Naica cave in Mexico, consisting of giant gypsum crystals measuring up to 11m and with weights of up to 30 tons, compared with small sized crystals artificially grown in my kitchen, and a careful analysis of a number of experiments done on the influence of shape on self-assembly helps to understand and overcome the scale problem involved in utilizing a phenomenon that is generally found to happen in the micro scale and to blow it up to human and macro scale.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The project speculates on the deployment of protocells in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Protocells are self assembling chemical systems without any DNA, and are made of only a small number of simple chemicals you might find at any home. The Patch, a giant accumulation of man made debris, predominantly millimeter sized plastic particles suspended in the upper water column covers an area though to be about 8 times the size of Britain. The technology, developed in the micro scale is applied to an area that covers millions of square kilometers of open ocean.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The protocells, through self-assembly trap and bind the floating neuston plastics, creating a series of floating islands, a complex synthetic ecology where a new social, economic and political order is formulated.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This three projects show how scale is not really a measure or a dimension, but a capacity for relation. The dynamic systems that govern our world and the geometries of the structures associated with them, give rise to scalar relations among themselves.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Commonly expressed in contemporary architecture we find scaled-up analogies between natural biological conditions and larger scale structures, this experimentation with bio-architectural composites has given rise to a number of different responses and approaches from bio-mimicry to neo-plasmatic design and protocell architecture, and thanks to advanced digital design technologies and representation techniques, were opened the door to a world, in which interdisciplinary practice with physicians, biologists, chemists and bio-engineers is becoming not only increasingly common but necessary.</span></div></span></span>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-72385262282452183452010-09-09T14:27:00.016+01:002010-12-14T21:16:09.900+00:00PLASTIC FANTASTIC<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">"Self-assembly is the autonomous organization of components into patterns or structures without human intervention. Self-assembling processes are common throughout nature and technology. They involve components from the molecular (crystals) to the planetary (weather systems) scale and many different kinds of interactions. The concept of self assembly is used increasingly in many disciplines, with a different flavor and emphasis in each."</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">George M. Whitesides, 2009</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">As new self-assembling protocell technologies are developed and used to trap and bind suspended plastics in the Oceans, mainly The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, tighter regulations on CO2 emissions force plastic manufacturers to eventually cease production and focus exclusively on collecting and recycling used plastics. This creates an economic stimulus by which plastic becomes a scarce and valuable material. The folating islands created by the plastic binding in The Patch turn into plastic mining settlements, a new citiy-state, a micro-nation that becomes the world's main raw plastic supplier.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b>Plastic Fantastic</b> is a speculative architectural construct that is born from the discarded materials from the rest of the world. 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cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif-oPIfkIqWlcmuEEsjp_2UApRSSZGZmv4-jEPjxjyGCw4VgzchTJKTr-4IZuT7ex7a2J4wW1jNTDlDoOPceRhCFVRtZhpPp9xjgx1q6DlCbCl5ynbDdpm4PHHYq02HoBzi1mSp17ZDC48/s400/DSC02736.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488329900537533778" /></a></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-46591602055203529602010-06-10T17:06:00.012+01:002011-02-22T14:50:41.687+00:00PROTOCELLS<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dFagK5Lshlg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><b>Protocells</b>, 2010. A film by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://grayanat.posterous.com/">Dr Rachel Armstrong</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"> and Michael Simon Toon - Dr Armstrong (senior TED fellow and UCL teaching fellow) created the protocells and footage in this film, in the laboratory at Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Protocells could be the beginning of all life on Earth. They are self assembling chemical systems without DNA, which is generally thought of as the molecule that programs all aspects of the behaviors of living cells. These simple protocells are made only of a small number of chemicals that you might find in any home, yet they are able to sense their environment, modify it, and exhibit complex life-like behaviors such as skin shedding and communication (as evidenced by their interaction and co-ordination). They also exhibit the most comprehensive of life-like qualities; eventual cessation of activity or as we call it, death.</div></span></span>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-3131898690647921332010-06-02T11:13:00.008+01:002010-06-11T17:01:36.002+01:00WORK IN PROGRESS<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglogSVID9eGuFBr8UcC-7KYtabtJgctrVXIlRrQ23FtP_aNHU36KCMpTs5bWaKLGwEB8f3pY2MCQRvwetbYYnh7DS9LxIk-5EFdGbmrzVSUO1dvRpOabLiO2wRd9BP3pzpnvYgfgYPmm_W/s1600/det1ail.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 500px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglogSVID9eGuFBr8UcC-7KYtabtJgctrVXIlRrQ23FtP_aNHU36KCMpTs5bWaKLGwEB8f3pY2MCQRvwetbYYnh7DS9LxIk-5EFdGbmrzVSUO1dvRpOabLiO2wRd9BP3pzpnvYgfgYPmm_W/s400/det1ail.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478138024314673090" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglogSVID9eGuFBr8UcC-7KYtabtJgctrVXIlRrQ23FtP_aNHU36KCMpTs5bWaKLGwEB8f3pY2MCQRvwetbYYnh7DS9LxIk-5EFdGbmrzVSUO1dvRpOabLiO2wRd9BP3pzpnvYgfgYPmm_W/s1600/det1ail.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVMbS3iA9Zqrg43w3IywZ7ueZ5I51gTHVX9Aciwz5_hnipHblvIMm07RBWcCGghRpZCAvpEcAoLtYjQ8QAtEXi6Ot2VLuYW96KF5FEQVZQEZBM01p-I4Tj_H8IOqShNF9l6wkPKzzvkHP6/s1600/time-based-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 195px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVMbS3iA9Zqrg43w3IywZ7ueZ5I51gTHVX9Aciwz5_hnipHblvIMm07RBWcCGghRpZCAvpEcAoLtYjQ8QAtEXi6Ot2VLuYW96KF5FEQVZQEZBM01p-I4Tj_H8IOqShNF9l6wkPKzzvkHP6/s400/time-based-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478130073690709922" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-8763579784394285312010-05-13T12:29:00.009+01:002010-05-17T19:23:27.033+01:00ON EXACTITUD ON SCIENCE... del rigor en la ciencia<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.</span></div></i></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">-Suarez Miranda,Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV,Cap. XLV, Lerida, 1658</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">One paragraph short story by Jorge Luis Borges published in FICCIONES</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br /></span></span></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-78089247797568352672010-04-16T18:06:00.014+01:002010-05-07T15:06:49.425+01:00MAPPING AS A MEANS OF APPROPRIATION<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To understand a site as complex as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, that has been the cause of much speculation but that has yet to be clearly defined and fully understood, (it’s size is almost impossible to confirm with sources describing it to be from the size of Texas to the size of the continental U.S.); my tactic is to map the forces and conditions that define it, from winds and oceanic currents, to boat routes and amounts and types of plastic dumped into the oceans. Using mapping techniches as a way of appropriation of this almost mythical region; uncharted territory, a territory to be discovered, conquered, colonized. My system creates a dynamic relationship between itself and the environment on the site and uses the suspended plastic to create a new substrate and generate </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">a synthetic ecology formed by the material discarded by the U.S.A. and Japan</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyitZ2YSwU2GGIHkH1S6uN90SyUis9EsgfPn0VA3-u1nE_ScBU2e9yElLeXGZ11eBelqQ16KFjVrB5Ad8cL3vUglx9Tf0p7B5XWT7FpGDHBMuscL9201lyBlmzAWBPN4BYzabFOfYv0yAx/s400/chart3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460789790827037074" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 310px; " /></a></span></span></span></div></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-38472031229941614562010-04-10T15:23:00.019+01:002010-04-16T17:59:04.344+01:00MORE ON THE SITE: PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 24px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 24px; "><!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#17222A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a giant accumulation of man made debris suspended in the upper water column of the North Pacific Ocean, roughly located between 135° to 155°W and 35°to 42°N, calculated to be close to twice the size of Texas (about 8 times the size of Britain) and to contain as much as 100 million tons of marine debris. The patch, of which 80-90% is plastic materials, is mostly formed by discarded material dumped from the U.S.A.’s west coast and from Japan and is gathered together by the North Pacific Gyre, that is the largest ecosystem on Earth and consists a system of prevailing currents that collects, the debris and traps it in the center of the vortex, forming the patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has one of the highest levels known of plastic particulate suspended in the upper water column. As a result, it is one of several oceanic regions where researchers have studied the effects and impact of plastic photo-degradation in the neustonic layer of water. Unlike debris that biodegrades, the photo-degraded plastic disintegrates into ever-smaller pieces while remaining a polymer. This process continues to the molecular lever. The existence of The Patch was predicted in a 1988 on paper published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States and has been brought to mainstream attention by Charles Moore, founder of the </span><a href="http://www.algalita.org/"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#7F7F7F;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Algalita Foundation</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, who came across it coming back from a sail race between Los Angeles and Hawaii </span><a href="http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm"><span style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:nonecolor:#7F7F7F;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(Moore, 2003)</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#17222A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Acording to Greenpeace, debri takes about 6 years to travel from the coast of the continental US and Japan to reach the the vortex and form the patch. The patch, like most marine debri concentrations, has been gradually formed by the gathering of marine pollution by oceanic currents, over the course of many years. It ocupies a large relatively stationary area, although recent data sugests the presence of two zones of concentrated debri conected by the Gyre's Convergence Zone.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#17222A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Despite the size and density of the patch, it is not visible from satellite photography since it's primary component is small plastic particles suspended in the upper water column, on, or just bellow, the surface. Also, since plastic degrades into smaller and smaller polymers, it is not possible to view it through satellite pictures. This has led to even more speculation regarding the size, shape and location of the pacth, and even to some people doubting its existence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#17222A;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">It is important to note that the patch is NOT a floating island of garbage over which you could walk; images and videos found on different publications relating to the patch that show this situations are showing the plastic debri that has escaped or wasn't trapped by the North Pacific Gyre's Convergence Zone and has been washed up on the shores of the Hawaii Islands and Alaska</span></span></p></span></div><br /><object width="440" height="307" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0"> <param name="salign" value="lt"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="scale" value="noscale"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="movie" value="hhttp://oceans.greenpeace.org/assets/binaries/trash_vortex.swf"> <param name="FlashVars" value="&streamName=FLV_Video_URL&skinName=http://geekfile.googlepages.com/flvskin&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=true"> <embed width="440" height="307" flashvars="&streamName=FLV_Video_URL&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=true&skinName=http://geekfile.googlepages.com/flvskin" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="LT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://oceans.greenpeace.org/assets/binaries/trash_vortex.swf" wmode="transparent"></embed> </object><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I haven't been able to embed a scaled version of the Greenpeace animation showing the currents that cause the Gyre and the movement of trash from the coast to the Patch click </span></span></i><a href="http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/trashing-our-oceans/ocean_pollution_animation"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">here</span></span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> to see it on the Greenpeace website, give a read to the info on the Patch while you're at it too!</span></span></i></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-27818196469300889572010-02-03T16:45:00.009+00:002010-05-07T11:20:43.234+01:00DRAFT OF DRAFT<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(21, 34, 43); line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:arial, serif;font-size:9px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Self-assembly can be generally defined as the process in which a disordered system of pre-existing components forms an organized structure as a consequence of specific local interactions among the components and with no human intervention.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> My project speculates in utilizing self-assembling technologies and chemical interactions</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">to generate a system of migrating architectures. The site is Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a giant accumulation of man made debris suspended in the waters of the north pacific ocean, calculated to be roughly twice the size of Texas. The patch, conformed 80-90% out of plastic materials, is mostly formed by rubbish dumped from the U.S.A.’s west coast and from Japan and is gathered together by the North Pacific Gyre, a system of prevailing currents that collects the debris forming the patch. Through chemical interactions, these floating migrating architectural elements would self assemble in and around the patch to collect, trap and bind together all the floating plastic and marine litter, creating a new unique, floating construct. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> There are a number of reasons for which self-assembly has generated such interest and although definitions of the term vary immensely and the subject has not been formalized,</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">resulting in it being sometimes overused and distorted, we are undeniably intrigued by the spontaneous appearance of order from disorder. Living cells self-assemble, so the understanding of life and it’s basic building blocks would require the understanding of self-assembly processes. Also, it has been considered fundamental in the development of nanotechnology and the fabrication of nano-structures. Biological systems as well as a variety of inorganic physical systems exhibit self-assembling or self-ordering behavior and involve components from the molecular (crystallization) to the planetary scale (solar systems and weather patterns). Drawing on these systems for inspiration, scientists and professionals from numerous disciplines like chemistry,</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">biology, engineering, and mathematics, to name a few, have begun to investigate the self-assembly phenomenon in hopes of learning to design and control the behavior of these systems. My interest is to study and speculate on the potentials of self-assembling systems and processes on an architectural scale.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> Last term, I created an experimental model to study the basic aspects and conditions of self-assembly and parallel to this created drawings that would investigate and speculate on the potentials of this processes.I intend to continue the experimentation with the model and to incorporate into the project a speculative narrative of a social-cultural aspect, a ‘self organized social structure’ that develops on this newly created land, a micro-nation that is born from the rubbish and discarded material of other countries.</span></span></span></div></span>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-49627674045159056112010-02-03T13:53:00.000+00:002010-02-03T13:54:15.491+00:00CAPT. CHARLES MOORE TED TALK<!--copy and paste--><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/CharlesMoore_2009U-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/CharlesMoore-2009U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=470&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic;year=2009;theme=a_greener_future;theme=to_boldly_go;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;event=TED2009;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/CharlesMoore_2009U-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/CharlesMoore-2009U.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=470&introDuration=16500&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=2000&adKeys=talk=capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic;year=2009;theme=a_greener_future;theme=to_boldly_go;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;event=TED2009;"></embed></object>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-77696027533408292572010-01-07T01:49:00.014+00:002010-05-07T15:39:07.268+01:00ARCHITECTURAL POTENTIALS<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBk-ddF5ftNMhTYNT0XWihXG61ou08rxsXZBIXbaQP278Ljd4yIZbTOOWVoTjOGezdsJis_UZetWwv-R3FKRAW8TJTm6JS5ec7tcjdMvDSLuhbH1BzEQqpIXiBhSjYfUDOkHVpvEUZ2_dU/s1600/SA.jpg"></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, serif;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">My project speculates in utilizing self assembling technologies, chemical interactions and new materials to generate a system of migrating architectures. I chose two test sites for the proposal; the first is the city of Shenzhen in the coast of China, a city that in the past 20 years has almost doubled it's size via land reclamation from the sea; and the second is Great Garbage Patch, a giant patch of garbage and debri floating in the north pacific calculated to be roughly twice the size of Texas, gathered together by North Pacific Gyre.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the first scenario, the floating architectures would be released in the bay and self assemble in the coast, certain aspects of their behaviour and location would be predetermined, but the stchastic nature of the system would permit a more natural response to the problem of land reclamation. Instead of imposing and 'breaking' the environment, this solution adapts to the surroundings and the environment with a much lower impact on the local ecologies. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the second scenario, the floating elements would follow the same route that debri follow from the coasts of the U.S. and Japan guided by the North Pacific Gyre, though chemical processes they would release protocell technologies that create a web or a net, and as they self assemble they would trap in this net the marine debri and supended plastics. A third situation uses the oceans as a test site. Since the sea has a concentration of CO2 up to 50 times larger than the atmosphere, the floating architectures, moving by chemotaxis would find the areas with highest concentration of CO2 in the ocean and via carbon capture processes reduce the CO2 content in theat particular area. Once the floating elements gain a cetain size, a 'critical weight', assemble at the coasts and sink, generating new underwater strata that would serve as scafolding for new ecologies to develop around them.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBk-ddF5ftNMhTYNT0XWihXG61ou08rxsXZBIXbaQP278Ljd4yIZbTOOWVoTjOGezdsJis_UZetWwv-R3FKRAW8TJTm6JS5ec7tcjdMvDSLuhbH1BzEQqpIXiBhSjYfUDOkHVpvEUZ2_dU/s400/SA.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468537184975445170" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 309px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Abstraction drawing of the Self-Assembly process: A disorganized system of particles</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">spontaneously self-assembles into and ordered construct.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkpuZ_c_ZxnvHdAVKANOpe6_7lJzDdrQxskqzhGVZIT65oRRXIHWrlG5ZCx9-ZgWxefpLn_htJoSL3nj2ALLM2wVDB-zzyGNTZMzUn_y4L9qeV7VkJVyyXGacdotavYJQL7xzzv_rVuJu/s1600-h/SA_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkpuZ_c_ZxnvHdAVKANOpe6_7lJzDdrQxskqzhGVZIT65oRRXIHWrlG5ZCx9-ZgWxefpLn_htJoSL3nj2ALLM2wVDB-zzyGNTZMzUn_y4L9qeV7VkJVyyXGacdotavYJQL7xzzv_rVuJu/s400/SA_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415182308153290210" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Drawing showing photosensitive protocells.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP4ew0YL7l7BV8BkvMAgmAW724E5zQXsyhYfBC6MJZnA76pNOTLw222X1-WHEPwZ9soF_CNMw-wQDWLVCTSyrk1RNbmLvRqYxZT_Zuw7udadtX6QWltpdZlMlEJQlZHnR73doMsgHZOIy6/s1600-h/ropes.jpg"></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVhwq0cJY0DDsVKBMz8-LrE77qfquYzrsrwgx60zIfk7xkBX8e9IubkQvs6k0WXapTmddIi310CT49DJZHlo4MWzl-6HyvPQ-ZlXA1uiIRzTHfjuFeqM9RfCWCjCL8AVYl_yQwRAwX8LV/s1600-h/SA.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"></a></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQBsyRIbExS2allSDZWKEiuLK-ptmY-_3NepHBbDMPH9GX9g2FL5nDV3chz4srAi2TqLJGaynvMTQSwElCmMUalUyHKV9K9Z-C8eu8RrgbUGi64qDZNHBPGtmrTtXatF8zBLAw9CpJD1Xw/s400/net.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426200552666600338" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 309px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial, serif;">This drawing shows protocells self-assembling into a net that traps marine debri.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrICbAAnSEomP38v8PJuCJrvplMkWEU4XV9oYXxOVyXxQBsVKzzVy2ri22bvNB-lSosdH9Jx5sXEeqLyzb4WC_OwZzA5fOzVG3pa_A6EolAZ7yFu9x7NE_pYwGAQESxbuTRP9yIpfLHzvq/s400/shenzhen_last_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426210548580066562" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 311px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Migrating architectures are deployed in the coastal chinese city of Shenzhen, where they achieve land reclamation through stochastic self assembly processes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjFWh_Bhn9IWLyEMEoSctOJ8LoNXTJCR0ml6AbrUdi5JnxVD8hcr9IUoPDKggAKBuPrQmPjEbbZUYpGAGoBgCnsVpfqZlUpmHqNCZuwuQRQU490qoleQng-qCSJFZQObLUgCAF8HwSt_zR/s400/NAG+CO2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426209559606069042" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 440px; height: 420px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, serif;"><i>Above:</i> Migrating architectures follow the currents of the North Pacific Gyre and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial, serif;">self-assemble around the Great Garbage Patch while creating a net to trap floating debri.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><i>Below:</i> The objects move by thermotaxis and chemotaxis reaching the areas of </span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">the ocean with highest CO2 concentration.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNSxBKwoxCH4XqXAqQBdKnWheDz5Qp-kdOaNlTAOxo5C7oCxKuQxK9tifLrioMz0Vk3vb8KWvMBi_POoOx1rnYWoEdNaoNBWC7wqcMxkQ-OZOUBbrzlxTzWXXK60gZvLTWn8BHL0uQr3Yi/s400/sec.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426213344510144018" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 150px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;">Time based drawing showing the increase in size of the elements due to carbon capture.</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-20376583792181599032010-01-06T00:16:00.000+00:002010-01-07T09:26:27.029+00:00BROWNIAN MOTION<div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brownian motion is defined as '</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">the seemingly random movement of particles supended in a fluid (i.e. a liquid or gas) or the mathematical model used to describe such random movements, often called particle theory.</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">'</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I generated a Brownian Motion curve for each tile in the model by tracking the movement of the particle, pin-pointing it's possition at different time intervals and conecting the points.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuThWZgUH_h2WpUNDuqvXtM-HmMgciMd_zwGIGbVBOLR2kSjXhyON99W2Qo1Ar7iowxeOEToi40WpIVPr_hutmQDk9K3pCPuoSPeSJw8Nm_jv-VlNNTMEAggcAIttRxsfC4bz-47ohQy6M/s1600-h/brownian+curve+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuThWZgUH_h2WpUNDuqvXtM-HmMgciMd_zwGIGbVBOLR2kSjXhyON99W2Qo1Ar7iowxeOEToi40WpIVPr_hutmQDk9K3pCPuoSPeSJw8Nm_jv-VlNNTMEAggcAIttRxsfC4bz-47ohQy6M/s400/brownian+curve+2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423066258727560978" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoEFni5O-oiFax5PvB_aW7dinW9prx8ffQuedfj2JZ_KFJG4vXbY-BcMkMzl6nWx3GppPyQ_vOkBfRNcgeE9_ueHoYbrfKJJsjtZWZ2L3BvmaXHilsei4PGL5LSfOQVFEkZcb3X5R16fwC/s1600-h/brownian+curve+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoEFni5O-oiFax5PvB_aW7dinW9prx8ffQuedfj2JZ_KFJG4vXbY-BcMkMzl6nWx3GppPyQ_vOkBfRNcgeE9_ueHoYbrfKJJsjtZWZ2L3BvmaXHilsei4PGL5LSfOQVFEkZcb3X5R16fwC/s400/brownian+curve+1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423066188861569154" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Each one of the images above represents the Brownian Motion of one tile achieved by tracking</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">the movement of the tile with intervals of 10s (cyan), 20s (blue) and 30s (red). </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRk-aPhFASCwz0DLJKXR_jqCFC1HsEM-Fou2c75thLa9ctAMa7Y7zLR2uh2ciL5bowgWvRQaDfje3o20KXKMLtmkxjuPY8qfZ38Te9bryqrytN7W18ABAgOpArPf_wJ4NHZhNsCsDZ6z3A/s1600-h/stills2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 537px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRk-aPhFASCwz0DLJKXR_jqCFC1HsEM-Fou2c75thLa9ctAMa7Y7zLR2uh2ciL5bowgWvRQaDfje3o20KXKMLtmkxjuPY8qfZ38Te9bryqrytN7W18ABAgOpArPf_wJ4NHZhNsCsDZ6z3A/s400/stills2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423060410780598914" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fuI2gV5MqW-LupyQmSXYMmW_OSstpbGMx9tH-th4tt5BDjLJxZGd7nb3py4f6rh0ss1NvnWQiggf1JxoxKluPrLOGxtcl1sFQhYvxDEahdgXpcW7PRPOcdiwLpvl-z4n0TE3uhQdd-r6/s1600-h/stills1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 537px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fuI2gV5MqW-LupyQmSXYMmW_OSstpbGMx9tH-th4tt5BDjLJxZGd7nb3py4f6rh0ss1NvnWQiggf1JxoxKluPrLOGxtcl1sFQhYvxDEahdgXpcW7PRPOcdiwLpvl-z4n0TE3uhQdd-r6/s400/stills1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423060231704196802" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Mosaic of stills used to generate Brownian curves.</span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-27294536101707953322010-01-05T08:30:00.000+00:002010-01-07T09:26:08.032+00:00MODEL V2.0<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> This round of tests were more focused on programing the environment of the model and trying to manipulate the particles as little as possible. The environment (watter) was altered in three different ways; for the first two, I added Sodium Bicarbonate to make the water an alkaline solution and covered the tiles with oil. For the first one of these two experiments the water was moxed with the Sodium Bicarbonate at room temperature; for the second one I created a super-saturated solution by boiling the water beore adding the Sodium Bicarbonate and then letting it cool down.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In the las set of experiments, I wanted the environment to be as 'active' as posible reducing the need for me to intervene as an actuator when the system reaches equilibrium for this I added large quantities of effervescent salts. The video below shows a few clips of the results of all experiments (including some of the ones published before in this blog, so jump to 1:18 in the video to see the new bits).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><object width="440" height="268"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CfVotNeZkF8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CfVotNeZkF8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="440" height="268"></embed></object>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-56189295404051654282009-12-02T02:47:00.017+00:002010-04-16T16:10:37.618+01:00THE MODEL<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#15222B;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">In order to explore the self assembly process, I constructed an experimental platform attempting to study the basic aspects, conditions and behaviours of a self organizing system. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">The Model consists of floating tiles in a water tank (since the components in the structure need to be mobile, the self assembly process usually takes place in fluid environments), using </span></span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://nicolasrk.blogspot.com/2009/12/capillary-interaction.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">capillary interaction</span></a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> and magnetic fields as binding forces. The material used for the tiles is balsa wood and they were developed in two different sizes (1cm x 1cm and 2cm x 2cm), the coloured tiles used for the magnetic forces experiments have a pair of magnets each with all red tiles having the north pole of the magnets on the top and the black ones on the bottom, this makes tiles with the same colour repell each other and attract with those of the opposite colour. In both cases I acted as actuator sometimes slightly pushing the tiles around when the system achieves equilibrium and other times by just shaking the water tank trying to avoid direct manipulation of the model as much as possible.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><object width="440" height="268"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dNqk3Ms9mng&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dNqk3Ms9mng&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="440" height="268"></embed></object></span></center><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><center><object width="440" height="268"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhHUXf5pvVY&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/nhHUXf5pvVY&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="440" height="268"></embed></object></center><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><center><object width="440" height="268"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x8UWUcHsLvk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x8UWUcHsLvk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="440" height="268"></embed></object></center></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-52498824772299384842009-11-27T17:14:00.003+00:002010-04-16T16:08:45.784+01:00SURFACE TENSION AND CAPILLARY INTERACTION<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDb2F1lZ4IGBdcLW4weVzQIlXQOA2F44yHF4R4Ng6hyphenhyphenvrVFzPS6NRol0Oz-AqLc9y0yINspAdtVxVZf1OJu5MNa4Nb2jkh9iTANsQ_lWc1UorevJWOLkq3WAhH5Hu2759-cetyhSCMq5wG/s1600-h/Paper_Clip_Surface_Tension.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDb2F1lZ4IGBdcLW4weVzQIlXQOA2F44yHF4R4Ng6hyphenhyphenvrVFzPS6NRol0Oz-AqLc9y0yINspAdtVxVZf1OJu5MNa4Nb2jkh9iTANsQ_lWc1UorevJWOLkq3WAhH5Hu2759-cetyhSCMq5wG/s400/Paper_Clip_Surface_Tension.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410712706072286322" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Surface tension is a property of the surface of a liquid. Since the molecules at the surface don't have other like molecules on 'all sides' of them, the cohesive forces that hold them together to the molecules associated with the surface are stronger. This forms a surface 'film' which makes it more difficult to move an object through the surface than to move it when it is completely submersed, the deformation of the liquid surface (which is supposed to be flat) is the origin of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">lateral capillary forces.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> This forces cause the attraction of two similar particles floating on a liquid's surface (like cheerios floating in a bowl of milk). Two types of capillary forces can be identified: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">lateral flotation forces </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">and</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> lateral immersion forces. </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The former refers to particles that are freely floating over the surface of liquid (like the paper above) where the attraction of the particles appears because of the deformation of the liquid surface originated in the particle's weight. The latter refers to the attrction between particles that are partially immersed in the liquid (the cheerio) where the deformation of the liquid surface is related to the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">wetting properties</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> of the particle surface, i.e. the position of the contact line and the contact angle.</span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><br /></span></span></div></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-71099121947712421372009-11-21T16:29:00.005+00:002009-12-14T02:13:32.237+00:00THE SCALE PROBLEM<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Naica Cave, Mexico. Translucent gypsum crystals of up to 11 meters and 55 tons have been found... the process is calculated to have taken about 400.000 to 500.000 years...</span></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3mJOEIXktwPGvcsS_ikGnQCOaWE-ga-MCVnPMx9cEoWh_AGkDU8QJzUhjBJSZaXxNYSD-gLWRngGCEttBKPZCvCUTmNQat94rn7oo3e-a1xrBfV5aVkY2gNZwKVOXw1di_GuIs9OQTgE/s1600-h/naica4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin3mJOEIXktwPGvcsS_ikGnQCOaWE-ga-MCVnPMx9cEoWh_AGkDU8QJzUhjBJSZaXxNYSD-gLWRngGCEttBKPZCvCUTmNQat94rn7oo3e-a1xrBfV5aVkY2gNZwKVOXw1di_GuIs9OQTgE/s400/naica4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414388818992730098" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeuvaG9B0u9n6JBrzwyI4Gag8jUw6UJwhoQrZhHTTforjkk0VlbDyC1yOgsaqWmQPgg-A29YchgmokQPlsZCObDUVqq_v1yY_YIj3-2KKIYX2-ccHHoMaEPLuSX6uJbUil2rSuhb1kVxD7/s1600-h/naica3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeuvaG9B0u9n6JBrzwyI4Gag8jUw6UJwhoQrZhHTTforjkk0VlbDyC1yOgsaqWmQPgg-A29YchgmokQPlsZCObDUVqq_v1yY_YIj3-2KKIYX2-ccHHoMaEPLuSX6uJbUil2rSuhb1kVxD7/s400/naica3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414388818633709618" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGx_xPnbgwPilDFfyAFLDE7g0tHiM_L8ZYFWEZswOfbh2-YFYSDT6CDGUnrs4Zcl7SbJVSZhmBKGZVWP-lePiCNWPHrwdrTFt6i_tdu0hFrHS0DfVdu0SW6_rYiSrUijihIF9UM3NUDJK/s1600-h/naica1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 683px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGx_xPnbgwPilDFfyAFLDE7g0tHiM_L8ZYFWEZswOfbh2-YFYSDT6CDGUnrs4Zcl7SbJVSZhmBKGZVWP-lePiCNWPHrwdrTFt6i_tdu0hFrHS0DfVdu0SW6_rYiSrUijihIF9UM3NUDJK/s400/naica1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414388807445331410" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucNLIV8d0cJh_nIM2rJeObibO66PGNquXHBbUoQTFKhIpLKjPZpMOWvnkzcHDXhdNmsI1AiIwzh5NmvsfNcAq3c7i6Tr2QLRMyVAY1f-VcFkVjsOcJRo3omo8BUi6c8-vDBaZAn5iveCA/s1600-h/naica0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 384px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucNLIV8d0cJh_nIM2rJeObibO66PGNquXHBbUoQTFKhIpLKjPZpMOWvnkzcHDXhdNmsI1AiIwzh5NmvsfNcAq3c7i6Tr2QLRMyVAY1f-VcFkVjsOcJRo3omo8BUi6c8-vDBaZAn5iveCA/s400/naica0.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414388803602264322" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-26506424420699218422009-11-17T06:06:00.037+00:002010-06-02T13:12:26.940+01:00THE PROCESS OF CRYSTALIZATION<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The crystallization process consists of two major events, nucleation and crystal growth. Nucleation is the step where the solute molecules dispersed in the solvent start to gather into clusters, when stable these clusters constitute the nuclei. However when the clusters are not stable, they redissolve. Therefore, the clusters need to reach a critical size called critical radius, in order to become stable nuclei. Such critical size is dictated by the environment (temperature,supersaturation, etc.). It is at the stage of nucleation that the atoms arrange in a defined andperiodic manner that defines the crystal structure. ("Crystal structure" is a special term that refers to the relative arrangement of the atoms, not the macroscopic properties of the crystal (size and shape), although those are a result of the internal crystal structure). The crystal growth is the subsequent growth of the nuclei that succeed in achieving the critical radius. Nucleation and growth continue to occur simultaneously while the supersaturation exists. Supersaturation is the driving force of the crystallization process, hence the rate of nucleation and growth is driven by the existing supersaturation in the solution. Depending upon the conditions, either nucleation or growth may be predominant over the other, and as a result, crystals with different sizes and shapes are obtained. Once the supersaturation is exhausted, the solid-liquid system reaches equilibrium and the crystallization is complete, unless the operating conditions are modified from equilibrium so as to supersaturate the solution again.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">(</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">Source: </span></i><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#999999;">)</span></i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUH-KP56tEfPZm3QXrfkszpcjO4ZFs_nitX9gSUiQ6o6J8xf1zO2_t8E4d5-GHrY4v_Zg5A9traV-w4UIiUKZLMkI1V7DBJdX8rd2ThBt-U_v8t5Wc01mF0JTENeeMePZcEZ_NFv5urpHV/s1600-h/cristal_curve-inv2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 330px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWkT3CbRn9cCYOFwHLyLKwGgK9_whs_C4CDMJlYxLewzmh6Qw5t8-gT0Z470azV5RgKqVymiWp9Omrhsl9bAOKGdvmexxbXAS8YYUvUWVVkifLvzvJx_vjroebBNALDLv0-ycOV4wxuSz/s800/cristal_curve-inv2.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In this drawing I show the time based process of molecules gathering into clusters, some of them dissolving back into the solution and some of them reaching the critical size and forming nuclei, that atract more molecules and generates the crystal growth, the proces follows the time/energy curve that is usually followed by this mineralization process.</span></span></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-4319053281493796722009-11-12T00:03:00.001+00:002009-12-14T02:18:32.157+00:00READING: 'Translations from Drawing to Building' BY ROBIN EVANS<div face="lucida grande"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">'...</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My own suspicion of the enormous generative part played by architectural drawing stems from a brief period of teaching in an art college. Bringing with me the conviction that architecture and the visual arts were closely allied, I was soon struck by what seemed at the time the peculiar disadvantage under which architects labour, never working directly with the object of their thought, always working at it through some intervening medium, almost always the drawing, while painters and sculptors, who might spend some time on preliminary sketches and maquettes, all ended up working on the thing itself, which, naturally, absorbed most of their attention and effort. I still cannot understand, in retrospect, why the implications of this simple observation had never been brought home to me before. The sketch and maquette are much closer to painting and sculpture than a drawing is to a building, and the process of development - the formulation - is rarely brought to a conclusion within this preliminary studies. Nearly always the most intense activity is the construction and manipulation of the final artifact, the purpose of preliminary studies being to give sufficient definition for final work to begin, not to provide a complete determination in advance, as in architectural drawing. The resulting displacement of effort and indirectness still seem to be distinguishing features of conventional architecture considered as a visual art, but whether always an necessarily disadvantageous is another question.'</span></span></div></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354653560246475136.post-64883012897018768932009-11-09T23:33:00.012+00:002010-04-16T16:08:15.230+01:004 DAY WORKSHOP WITH PERRY KULPER<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFomgAQjxfe9Jj9DAp0rk2cU_n4RBi_4UV4Vz_cFoYQ6DmZTOOi-EpS8XiAKMJKf57OPkIQL-AG0I8YKGcnXsN2rsNXBExxrWT-Awr_EvEB2dUL0VwPy18rW8M8aqBdTpSp-SOZTzhYWF/s1600-h/analogic_method.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 440px; height: 330px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifFomgAQjxfe9Jj9DAp0rk2cU_n4RBi_4UV4Vz_cFoYQ6DmZTOOi-EpS8XiAKMJKf57OPkIQL-AG0I8YKGcnXsN2rsNXBExxrWT-Awr_EvEB2dUL0VwPy18rW8M8aqBdTpSp-SOZTzhYWF/s800/analogic_method.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403371784891803954" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Using the 'Rock of Ages #7' photograph by Edward Burtynsky from the quarry series as a site, and one of the 4 methods studied with </span><a href="http://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/perry-kulper-revisited/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Perry</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">, in our case the Analogic method (that works establishing analogies for the elements in the construct: '</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">this </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">is like</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> that')</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> the task was to design a Motel, which we deided would be like a snake, that slides from level to level of the quarry. It's scales are like lost memories, like reflexions of experiences, like people carrying their homes on their backs... they come and go, leaving parts of them behind that will be forgotten, that will be lost in time, cleaned up, replaced. The Motel sheds it's skin of memories.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/perry-kulper-revisited/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Perry Kulper</span></a> is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he was a member of the faculty at SCI-Arc for 17 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to his studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and Columbia University he worked in the offices of Eisenman/ Robertson, Robert A.M. Stern and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown before moving to Los Angeles. His interests include the roles of representation and methodologies in the production of architecture and in broadening the conceptual range by which architecture contributes to our cultural imagination.</span></span></i></span></span></div>Nicolás Rodríguez K.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04066977674760615166noreply@blogger.com0