Concepts, types, models

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Concepts, types, models
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Ways to Study and Researchurban, architectural
and technical design

• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Naming and describing
• Design research and typology
• Evaluating
• Modelling
• Programming and optimising
• Technical Study 
• Design Study
• Study by design
• Epilogue

Empirical research
Study by design
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BK8030 assignments 9-12

• before April 12th publish what kind of
• types useful for design your comparison could
  produce
• design concepts you could derive from the objects
  you published
• models you could make of the objects you
  published
• programmes you can read from the published images

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Concept, type, model, programme?
Found by Tzonis (1999) figure 42 on page 89
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Concept(ion) and type

• A concept(ion)
• has no form
• is a theme transferabe to others
• it organises design choices
• it is transferable in words, schemes and
  reference images
• it pervades a design into the details.

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Examples of concepts
Le Corbusier, sketch of the concept of his Unité
MVRDV, scheme of the concept for admission lodges
on the Hoge Veluwe. Transform the same type in
brick, steel and wood.
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Types

• Blue houses are a category
• Cubic houses are a category
• Blue, cubic houses are a type
• A type combines incomparable categories, like
  form and colour,
• or beautiful, sturdy and useful.

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Typical theatres
prototype
type
Semper, Bayreuth Scala, Milan
Rossi, Genua
OMA, The Hague
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Are types models?

• Are types and concept(ion)s on their way to
  become a design also models?
• Klaasen (2002) Yes!
• Quatremère de Quincy (1890?) No! A type cannot
  be copied or realized as a model can.
• Leupen (Chapter 13) a type has to be transformed
  into a model by design to get the possibility to
  be realized.
• A concept can not be realized either before it is
  elaborated it only organises design choices.

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Models according to Klaasen Chapter 22

• Any imagination ready to be communicated is a
  model.
• Such a representation can be presented as a
  verbal, mathematical, spatial or mechanical model.

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Use models to clarify a

• description (research)
• explication (research)
• prediction (research)
• or an
• intention (planning study)
• exploration (design study).

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Do not confuse model and reality(Klaasen Chapter
22)

• Models reduce reality by
• culture and individual preferences into a
  representation as a bordered system
• scientific culture and individual objectives into
  interacting sub-systems
• concious, relevant simplification into the
  representation of the model.

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There are types of models,but are there models
of types?

• Is any transferable idea a model?
• A type can be transfered in words or a diagram.
• Leupen (Ch. 13) Types should be transformed into
  models by design.

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Examples of models
Verbal Mathematical Spatial Mechanical
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Spatial models for evaluation
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Verbal models
Topfloor without Bottomfloor Topfloor and
Bottomfloor Topfloor Bottomfloor without
Topfloor Only Topfloor or Bottomfloor Bottomfl
oor Topfloor or Bottomfloor Not
Bottomfloor If Topfloor than Bottomfloor is
closed.
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A mathematical model
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Model
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Models