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 LAB[au] (Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock) DATASCAPE Belgium 2000 Data_scapes are data-driven simulation displays based on dynamic interrelations between statistical, spatial, temporal…information processes and graphical or spatial visualization devices. The programming of such simulations initiates and feeds the conception process with dynamic space-time parameters allowing not only a dynamic and statistical grasp of fluctuating systems, such as infrastructural, activities, communication…flows, but also to understand complex interaction processes, such as congestion, growth, global exchanges…The programming of time in space constitutes a new method of analysis and simulation of complex phenomena and establishes a pragmatic and operational position of the architect who refuses to fix a structure in one given state. Therefore, these data-driven environments therefore with a tool that anticipates the complex decisional and supervising process (conception, realization and communication) in order to extend the traditional methods of planning to new accelerated space-time parameters, such as communication and computation flows. Yet, besides the operational tool, these data driven constructs can even become new space constructs by themselves - a dynamic architecture according to material and immaterial processes in the construct of space. The introduction of computational technologies transforms the role of the architect in the design process. The architect thus becomes a trigger, a catalyst and a designer of a generated and initiated architecture, an architecture of inFORMation - a hyperdesign. For example, the "Light_scape(s), displacement maps” project is a light plan study for the “Heizel plateau” in Brussels (1999), covering such a research for operative tools in order to conceive light as a dynamic and polysemic vector in the urban matrix. The data-processed light plan creates changing 'light scapes' throughout the temporal programming of light in space according to structural (static), as well as programmatic (dynamic) and individual (interactive) devices. Light is mapped as a fluid and immaterial scape over the existing space, opening up to a new experience of the public realm. Project: LAB[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, N.Mestaoui (electronic shadow), P.de Smedt (Jans), Kim Pecheur. The current collaborators of LAB[au] are Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Alexandre Plennevaux. Founded in 1995 LAB[au], laboratory for architecture and urbanism, it links theoretical research LAB[a+u] to concrete works of conception and realizations LA.BAU. In this way, LAB[au] elaborates a 'hyperdesign' investigating the implications of new communication and computation technologies within spatial-temporal structures, as well as their forms of representation, such as architecture and urbanism. The transposition of inFORMation processes, transmission and computation, in textual, graphical, three-dimensional and biomorphic forms, explores new space constructs proper to the electronic medium, and so illustrates the spatial and semantic mutation operated by new computation and communication technologies on the perception and conception of our environment. |
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