Eskilstuna Kulturhus, Ateljéer och Bostäder

Sammanfattning

The Degree project consists of two parts. The first is a tool to make it easier and quicker to visualize 2d drawings in 3d. The second part is an Art Center with workshops and housing, partly designed with the tool. Peter Märkli speaks of the language of architecture. Which parts exist and how do you combine them? The tool I’ve created is called Façade-o-bot and is a piece of Grasshopper code for Rhino that makes a 3d model out of 2d drawings of elements of your building. In a sequence in the movie Memory & Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress Steve Jobs talks about the role of the computer for learning and humans as creators of tools. He talks about an article which argues that the animal on earth that requires the least amount of energy to move is the concord and that humans end up pretty far down the list. That is until you compare with a human on a bicycle, then she easily beats the concord. He describes the computer as a bicycle for the mind. This project is about bicycles for the architect mind.