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 Dirk Donath, Thorsten Michael Lömker (Bauhaus Universität Weimar) An Interpretation of Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" in Digital Space Bauhaus Universität Weimar - Facultät Architektur, Stadt, regionalplanung – InfAR Deutscheland 2000 Architecture manifests itself in real buildings. Apart from this ‘solid’ architecture we are faced with technologies representing a so-called ‘virtual’ architecture, which establishes itself in thoughts, texts and drawings. Digital models form a possibility to describe and present virtual architecture as well as to make it accessible to others. In the 60(th) the mathematician and architect Christopher Alexander developed a theory, which strived for buildings in human scale according to proven solutions. In his book “A Pattern Language” Alexander described 253 elementary pattern and their relations to another, which he felt that they wuold define quality in architecture and urban planning. With the use of the pattern described in the book even non-architects should have been able to design houses and its accompanying spaces. At the chair “Computer Science in Architecture”, Bauhaus University Weimar, students were confronted with this trying to interpret and evaluate its content in the real world. Through the evalutation of examples of built architecture which was related to the pattern language, either by proving it or by demonstrating counterevidence, students were enabled to judge upon its substance. In a further step towards the use of the pattern language in digital space, students had to question the validity of the pattern language in digital space. Additionally a digital expression of the pattern had to be developed. The work handed in demonstrates 13 solutions of work produced within this course, trying to get to the botton of an architectural theory and its validity in ‘virtual’ architecture. An important factor taken into account was the question as if it would be possible to make use of these spaces in the sense of an extension to the real world, i.e. to design a conjunction between real and virtual spaces. The results presented show different aspects and solutions which might extend our understanding of the future and the city. (The work presented was developed by the students: Andreas Beetz, Christian Buss, Henning Hinrichsen, Roland Junker, Stephan Kohlrausch, Loris Negro, Karen Nickol, Timo Nonnenbroich, Marion Rehn, Alexander Alexander, Sebastian Ruschak, Gert Surber, Anja Traffas). Prof. Dirk Donath is a registered architect and head of the chair "Computer Science in Architecture" at Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Furthermore he is partner in two private architectural practices "Architektengemeinschaft Nitschke-Donath" and "b.a.u.werk prof. donath, maye and partners" in Weimar. Prof. Dr. Donath studied Architecture and Applied Computer Science at HAB Weimar. In 1988 he finished his doctorate research at the Faculty of Architecture, University Weimar, on the subject "Communication and Modeling in Computer Aided Architectural Design”. In 1992 Prof. Dr. Donath became Head of the Computer Planning Unit at the Faculty of Architecture, University Weimar. MSc Thorsten Michael Lömker is a registered architect and research scientist at the chair "Computer Science in Architecture" at Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Before joining the chair he worked in private architectural practice in Aachen, Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Thorsten Michael Lömker studied Architecture and Computing. He graduated as Dipl-Ing. from Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden in 1990 and obtained the degree of Master of Science at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee in 1993. He is currently working on his PhD dissertation and teaches graduate students in the design studios "digital_space" and in the visualization courses. |
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