https://geometrylab.org Geometry Lab Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:50:51 +0000 https://geometrylab.org en https://geometrylab.org/Home Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:23:57 +0000 Geometry Lab https://geometrylab.org/Home https://geometrylab.org/FUTURE-OF-AIR-TRAVEL-REPORT Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:42:05 +0000 Geometry Lab https://geometrylab.org/FUTURE-OF-AIR-TRAVEL-REPORT <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c6dace45bc3b8f6ba8b6d91acb601d66029e79b483940c208535432f49755f1/An-Atlas-of-Urban-Air-Mobility1.jpg" data-mid="144434785" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c6dace45bc3b8f6ba8b6d91acb601d66029e79b483940c208535432f49755f1/An-Atlas-of-Urban-Air-Mobility1.jpg" /> FUTURE OF AIR TRAVEL: REPORT Date: 2019 - 2022 Team: Andrew Witt, Hyojin Kwon, Eunu Kim, Gavin Ruedisueli Supporters: This project is supported by the members of the Laboratory for Design Technologies (LDT) Future of Air Travel Industry Advisors including Boeing, Clark Construction, Perkins &amp; Will, gmp, and the Massachusetts Port Authority.&nbsp; The Geometry Lab has launched a multi-year research on the Future of Air Travel and urban air mobility. Geometry Lab researchers Hyojin Kwon, Eunu Kim, and Gavin Ruedisueli, led by Principal Investigator Andrew Witt, are focusing on creating a collection of the dimensional and spatial parameters that establish relationships between aerial transport and the city,” and the research aims to establish a “kit of parts” for the aerial city of the future. This research effort is part of the collaborative platform Laboratory for Design Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The Laboratory for Design Technologies (LDT) brings together a number of the school’s technology research units and a select group of industry advisors to engage in forward-thinking, imaginative research. The Future of Air Travel is LDT’s inaugural project, launched in 2019 which aims to document, understand and respond to the complexities of contemporary aerial travel.&nbsp; Today, the world’s cities seem poised for a broad reimagining of their relationship to flight. As a new generation of aerial technologies—autonomous drones, new propulsion methods, quadcopter taxis, to name a few— are introduced in urban spaces, cities must not only embrace the opportunities of aerial urbanism but also its challenges and unintended consequences. At the same time the conventional place of the airport vis-à-vis the city is due for re-examination. This report attempts to confront both the future and the imagined past futures of aerourbanism from historical, technological, spatial, and simulational perspectives. To cover a breadth of dimensions related to aerial mobility, this report is divided into five major sections, each of which frames aerial urbanism in a distinct way.&nbsp; The first section, “Histories,” examines the long interaction of aerial devices and infrastructure and the imagination of the city. It serves as a preface and a recognition that while today’s aerial possibilities seem unbounded, in fact ambitious visions of urban air mobility are as old as flight itself.&nbsp; The second section,&nbsp; “Building Blocks,” inventories contemporary developments in aerial urbanism, including a range of new drone technologies, and the parameters and dimensions of specific ground infrastructures necessary for their operation. These parameters drive the development of a new software configurator documented in section three, “Tools.” In section four, we consider what impact aerial urbanism might have for connected regions, examining a possible future of regional air networks in Florida. Finally, in section five, “Architectural Futures,” we speculate on the architectural futures of the droneport and airport in the heart of the city. 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CONFIGURATOR Date: 2019 - 2022 Team: Andrew Witt, Hyojin Kwon, Eunu Kim, Gavin Ruedisueli Supporters: This project is supported by the members of the Laboratory for Design Technologies (LDT) Future of Air Travel Industry Advisors including Boeing, Clark Construction, Perkins &amp; Will, gmp, and the Massachusetts Port Authority.&nbsp; The Geometry Lab has launched a multi-year research on the Future of Air Travel and urban air mobility. Geometry Lab researchers Hyojin Kwon, Eunu Kim, and Gavin Ruedisueli, led by Principal Investigator Andrew Witt, are focusing on creating a collection of the dimensional and spatial parameters that establish relationships between aerial transport and the city,” and the research aims to establish a “kit of parts” for the aerial city of the future. This research effort is part of the collaborative platform Laboratory for Design Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The Laboratory for Design Technologies (LDT) brings together a number of the school’s technology research units and a select group of industry advisors to engage in forward-thinking, imaginative research. The Future of Air Travel is LDT’s inaugural project, launched in 2019 which aims to document, understand and respond to the complexities of contemporary aerial travel.&nbsp; ▶ Try the Configurator <img width="1200" height="585" width_o="1200" height_o="585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f7b7ed51251c6d0282dcd4818cb2668d101db3e9f1723cd33abc9eecac2362f/FOA-Application_1200x5801.PNG" data-mid="144387369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f7b7ed51251c6d0282dcd4818cb2668d101db3e9f1723cd33abc9eecac2362f/FOA-Application_1200x5801.PNG" /> <img width="1200" height="584" width_o="1200" height_o="584" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89dbef176300b32037ef363e03f8c70d2cdc669f63f7cb2d5565371e233ab4bd/FOA-Application_1200x5802.PNG" data-mid="144387371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89dbef176300b32037ef363e03f8c70d2cdc669f63f7cb2d5565371e233ab4bd/FOA-Application_1200x5802.PNG" /> <img width="1200" height="582" width_o="1200" height_o="582" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaba5848c43ebf1e807028e1193111e325b72430e4e28406c0cbbc5a0fc3d0f2/FOA-Application_1200x5803.PNG" data-mid="144387372" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eaba5848c43ebf1e807028e1193111e325b72430e4e28406c0cbbc5a0fc3d0f2/FOA-Application_1200x5803.PNG" /> <img width="1200" height="585" width_o="1200" height_o="585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca95e375875e05f23d14928ba2b974a8544fe271fd2401b9d8aef3fa5c86539a/FOA-Application_1200x5804.PNG" data-mid="144387373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca95e375875e05f23d14928ba2b974a8544fe271fd2401b9d8aef3fa5c86539a/FOA-Application_1200x5804.PNG" /> <img width="1200" height="586" width_o="1200" height_o="586" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4426f962c49a7e5cd331a589fe7a7a4cc24929e5762b51ef9146547fabf62f29/FOA-Application_1200x5805.PNG" data-mid="144387374" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4426f962c49a7e5cd331a589fe7a7a4cc24929e5762b51ef9146547fabf62f29/FOA-Application_1200x5805.PNG" /> <img width="1200" height="585" width_o="1200" height_o="585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ccaa7c5f999155210b59ecca02daf1f367ebcd2624f76a521bbf8e832a02be79/FOA-Application_1200x5806.PNG" data-mid="144387375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ccaa7c5f999155210b59ecca02daf1f367ebcd2624f76a521bbf8e832a02be79/FOA-Application_1200x5806.PNG" /> <img width="1200" height="585" width_o="1200" height_o="585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d3e024fecb3b845600d35999964ce642c5764e273b39d604ceebdeae27be85d1/FOA-Application_1200x5807.PNG" data-mid="144387376" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d3e024fecb3b845600d35999964ce642c5764e273b39d604ceebdeae27be85d1/FOA-Application_1200x5807.PNG" /> https://geometrylab.org/AN-ATLAS-OF-URBAN-AIR-MOBILITY Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:35:41 +0000 Geometry Lab https://geometrylab.org/AN-ATLAS-OF-URBAN-AIR-MOBILITY <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/07d4982343f65b76d68536fdd1fea1d5a67d229399cdff4a731ca651c05ec64e/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_03.png" data-mid="144446420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/07d4982343f65b76d68536fdd1fea1d5a67d229399cdff4a731ca651c05ec64e/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_03.png" /> THE PAST FUTURES OF THE AEROTROPOLIS Date: 2022 Team: Andrew Witt, Hyojin Kwon, Partners: MIT Thresholds Andrew Witt and Hyojin Kwon’s article, “The Past Futures of the Aerotropolis”, was published in the 50th issue of Thresholds. Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture and published by the MIT Press. Content features leading scholars and practitioners from the fields of architecture, art, and culture. Inflection points of history can take the form of not only a distinct historical event defined by successive actions, but also as a spatial transformation that shifts the normalized ways people move through their environment. In "The Past Futures of the Aerotropolis", Hyojin Kwon and Andrew Witt expand the spatial qualities of inflection points to the desire for speculation that forces us to imagine a different urban reality. Tracing the impact of planes and accessible air travel in the American city, Witt and Kwon detail how the act of looking forward tells us much more about the present than the future. This article is now available for free online at MIT Press Direct. <img width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68bc9e0e515d9530a2ea5df94f535094f67f353220649ce5e840471eca709122/ezgif.com-gif-maker-4.gif" data-mid="144450131" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/68bc9e0e515d9530a2ea5df94f535094f67f353220649ce5e840471eca709122/ezgif.com-gif-maker-4.gif" /> Andrew Witt, Hyojin Kwon; The Past Futures of Aerotropolis. Thresholds 2022; (50): 9–25. <img width="1500" height="1200" width_o="1500" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcf387092528ed7c06c2a20b6ef7314f5d2e915c8da74cb050e65da8e749d240/Thresholds_book.jpg" data-mid="144408942" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcf387092528ed7c06c2a20b6ef7314f5d2e915c8da74cb050e65da8e749d240/Thresholds_book.jpg" /> Thresholds 50: Before // After, Published by MIT Press. Credit: MIT Thresholds. <img width="1200" height="960" width_o="1200" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f5247db6d24f091925cd82b6b651f5a7fba200cc6f16837f6a1189351530a7a/Exhibition.gif" data-mid="144409501" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f5247db6d24f091925cd82b6b651f5a7fba200cc6f16837f6a1189351530a7a/Exhibition.gif" /> Thresholds 50: The Exhibition, installation view. Credit: Daisy Zhang and Hyojin Kwon. As part of the 50th Anniversary of Thresholds Journal, Thresholds hosted an exhibition at MIT’s Keller Gallery. The exhibition took place from April 22nd – May 18th and was sponsored by the Department of Architecture. On April 26th, 6-7PM at MIT Keller Gallery, Andrew Witt and Hyojin Kwon provided a gallery talk where they discussed the past futures in their own writings and in the work of others. Through an engagement with architectural theories and proposals of urban futures, Witt and Kwon explored how the speculative tradition takes on new historical importance. <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7eccefd20c447cb75a31edc83a59615e8c2420f3da31e526c0cb4ddc010e1c5/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_05.png" data-mid="144447367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7eccefd20c447cb75a31edc83a59615e8c2420f3da31e526c0cb4ddc010e1c5/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_05.png" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e3ce1a3471ee70576506594862e718e990a54092dde8c10e3d648110e3436fc/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_06.png" data-mid="144447366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e3ce1a3471ee70576506594862e718e990a54092dde8c10e3d648110e3436fc/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_06.png" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98a307e82a2c6103fe617d6cebb4ee76a28446c30c86f6b18ad654054e89d5e2/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_04.png" data-mid="144447368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98a307e82a2c6103fe617d6cebb4ee76a28446c30c86f6b18ad654054e89d5e2/THRESHOLS-_1200x800_04.png" /> https://geometrylab.org/NEURALISMS-SHENZHEN Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:50:51 +0000 Geometry Lab https://geometrylab.org/NEURALISMS-SHENZHEN <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9346d7d3de53520fab9c100c431d760d477f22979df053aa02a67af93171129/NEURALISMS_SHENZHEN_1200x800_01.png" data-mid="144447534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9346d7d3de53520fab9c100c431d760d477f22979df053aa02a67af93171129/NEURALISMS_SHENZHEN_1200x800_01.png" /> NEURALISMS SHENZHEN Date: 2019 -2022 Team: Andrew Witt, Robert Pietrusko Shenzhen is China’s city of the future, a manufacturing and product development hub unlike any in the world. It is a place where innovation in the material world is increasingly enabling an entirely new vision of culture. Perhaps there is no better place to anticipate the lifestyle of the future—and how the city is integrated with the countryside—than the place where that future is being manufactured. This studio will consider AI, data science, remote sensing, and other new modes of encoding and representing landscape and architecture as the raw material for a fictional and imaginative lifestyle futurism emerging in Shenzhen. Leveraging technologies of deep learning, neural imagination, and recombinant gaming, the studio will also draw on speculative fictions to imagine types and territories for the lifestyles of Shenzhen’s coming golden age. Shenzhen is a planned city par excellence, created almost ex nihilo forty years ago from a framework of overlapping national and local mandates and policies. The result of this strict and fastidious planning logic is an archipelago of architectural, urban, and landscape monocultures, blocks of single types set in surprising juxtapositions to each other. Taking these individually homogenous and collectively diverse blocks as fuel, we will embrace ways to recode, remix, and recombine these strict distinctions into hybridized and interleaved inter-territories and between-types. The project should consider the unique relationship of Shenzhen to the larger Pearl River Delta region, playfully rethinking near and far, locality and territory. In a sense, each project may become a network of territories shrunk to a microcosm, a specific view of the entire region distilled to an intensified block. From our menagerie of mutant types and territories, we will speculate on the rules of life in Shenzhen’s coming golden age. Drawing inspiration from but moving beyond computational precedents, we will use gaming engines to develop logics of mutating and recombinant urbanism grounded in a projection of leisure and culture. Here we will anticipate a future in which innovation, industry, leisure, and agriculture are all intensely local and densely intermixed, a state in which dozens of territories are interdependently stitched together through electronic and biological technology. These speculations will be represented in media appropriate to them—using dynamic projection mappings, film, and advanced simulation—in preparation for a major public exhibition of the studio’s work in Shenzhen in the fall of 2020. https://geometrylab.org/FORMULATIONS Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:24:27 +0000 Geometry Lab https://geometrylab.org/FORMULATIONS <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf2b7b2364de3eea50df7428726b5726d407612b8dd388e4a9df12165f10f740/Formulations_01.jpg" data-mid="144266014" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf2b7b2364de3eea50df7428726b5726d407612b8dd388e4a9df12165f10f740/Formulations_01.jpg" /> FORMULATIONS Date: 2022 Client: Certain Measures Team: Andrew Witt Partners: Graphic Design by Ben Fehrman-Lee with support from the Graham Foundation, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and MIT Press In Formulations, Certain Measures cofounder Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history, but rather architecture's encounters with a range of calculational systems—techniques that architects inventively retooled for design. Witt offers a catalog of mid-twentieth-century practices of mathematical drawing and calculation in design that preceded and anticipated digitization as well as an account of the formal compendia that became a cultural currency shared between modern mathematicians and modern architects. Available from MIT Press and Amazon&nbsp; <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bfd728c8beaf78dcede01e779d16007b5e54558122902713ce8a0a01260df16/Formulations_06.jpg" data-mid="144266015" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bfd728c8beaf78dcede01e779d16007b5e54558122902713ce8a0a01260df16/Formulations_06.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="2000" width_o="2500" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61ea2b4c367783ef28e1a6a0aba99003a291367ae7dc71f30cb19203b0af2747/Formulations_04.jpg" data-mid="144266016" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61ea2b4c367783ef28e1a6a0aba99003a291367ae7dc71f30cb19203b0af2747/Formulations_04.jpg" /> Above, the Book Launch Event at New York's Center for Architecture, March 26, 2022. The launch will include presentations by the author, Andrew Witt, as well as the series graphic designer Ben Ferhman-Lee, followed by a discussion with the series editor Cynthia Davidson and interlocutors Sean Canty, Esther Choi, and Cameron Wu. https://geometrylab.org/LIGHT-HARMONIES Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:27:03 +0000 Geometry Lab https://geometrylab.org/LIGHT-HARMONIES <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/346ddf3505db7d55e2c7311ad4b7366d613b693c444cf2f37171bbe585997e79/LTH_lighthar_01a_1200x675.jpg" data-mid="144266526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/346ddf3505db7d55e2c7311ad4b7366d613b693c444cf2f37171bbe585997e79/LTH_lighthar_01a_1200x675.jpg" /> LIGHT HARMONIES Date: 2014 Client: Certain Measures Team: Andrew Witt Partners: Graphic Design by Neil Donnelly with support from the Graham Foundation In 1955, on the cusp of the birth of computer animation and cinematic special effects, the German architectural photographer Heinrich Heidersberger built a series of room-sized kinetic machines to trace complex spaces, surfaces, and patterns onto photographic plates with a single concentrated ray of light. Virtually unknown outside of Germany, his work comprises a key visual link between cinema, drawing, architecture, and the perceptual ambiguities of complex geometry. Speaking to themes of subtly asymmetric order, virtual and ephemeral shape, and a lyrical sensuality, his images evoke a pre-digital virtual space. His creation and novel adaptation of machines in the activity of making even presages our contemporary use of computer-controlled machinery to create new universes of images and forms.Heidersberger called his striking formal inventions Rhythmogramms. This book presents the most comprehensive view of the Rhythmogramms’ smooth harmonic forms, delineated through the movements of a single delicate ray of light. <img width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ec2b89d245439c84ee8f5734b47a44c55acd988ecdc7e3c58c6f13553f8d6a0/LTH_lighthar_03_600_338.jpg" data-mid="144266528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/1ec2b89d245439c84ee8f5734b47a44c55acd988ecdc7e3c58c6f13553f8d6a0/LTH_lighthar_03_600_338.jpg" /> <img width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c3a4f7cefdcd217694bb0587483c6b55ffc27e0550d7acae15fc8484439042d/LTH_lighthar_06_600x338.jpg" data-mid="144266529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/7c3a4f7cefdcd217694bb0587483c6b55ffc27e0550d7acae15fc8484439042d/LTH_lighthar_06_600x338.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c24f1f26ab99ad175c9cc8b665ce19318293710e86e47304958e459fbd6e054/LTH_lighthar_09_1200x675.jpg" data-mid="144266530" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c24f1f26ab99ad175c9cc8b665ce19318293710e86e47304958e459fbd6e054/LTH_lighthar_09_1200x675.jpg" /> <img width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e67cdfae70f85cb1cf4b5a6ca4ea6d211b999ce6ed9d6c4a0df8a22a9fb4b6d/LTH_lighthar_10_600x338.jpg" data-mid="144266531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/9e67cdfae70f85cb1cf4b5a6ca4ea6d211b999ce6ed9d6c4a0df8a22a9fb4b6d/LTH_lighthar_10_600x338.jpg" /> <img width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f8b49c8f76f8a4f8a0f4d8f02e6b0af33b57360620394dfc3a93180c5bbf560/LTH_lighthar_11_600x338.jpg" data-mid="144266532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/4f8b49c8f76f8a4f8a0f4d8f02e6b0af33b57360620394dfc3a93180c5bbf560/LTH_lighthar_11_600x338.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="675" width_o="1200" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88b156dd98905058b61631e6b046eda272de76f0e81c27eac40693f49fada06f/LTH_lighthar_14_1200x675.jpg" data-mid="144266533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88b156dd98905058b61631e6b046eda272de76f0e81c27eac40693f49fada06f/LTH_lighthar_14_1200x675.jpg" />