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introduction |
The Hyperbody Research Group (HRG) at the Faculty of Architecture at
the Delft University of Technology is directed by Prof. Ir. Kas Oosterhuis,
who is also director of the architectural office ONL (Kas Oosterhuis
and Ilona Lénárd). His Hyperbody staff consists of Ir. Hans Hubers (co-ordinator),
and student assistants Misja van Veen, Sybren de Graaf, Michael Bittermann,
Chris Kievid, Christian Friedrich, Jasper Eustace, Sven Blokker and
Remko Siemerink. The aim of the HRG is to study interactivity in architecture
and to develop practical applications. Programmable buildings will illustrate
the paradigm shift from animation towards realtime behaviour. Hyperbodies
are pro-active building bodies acting in an changing environment. The
HRG has practiced the theory of the Hyperbody in 7 series of 8 week
Modules from 2001 to 2003 with over 100 students, most 3rd and 4th year.
The HRG introduces interactivity not only in the process of collaborative
design, but also during the use and maintenance of buildings. The HRG
looks at all stages of the lifecycle of buildings and at the economical
and ecological consequences, focusing on the development of new ideas
and practical applications for interactive architecture. Recently the
HRG has embarked on a Master course programme called Emotive Architecture.
The research is performed in the new group design room called Protospace,
and experiment with a sensorial space as the intelligent interface between
the designer and the design. Kas Oosterhuis, Director |
 Installation at the Stazione Leopolda, Florence (photo by: Luca Dettori) |
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| BCN
Formula Game Instructor: Kas Oosterhuis http://www.hyperbody.nl |
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The aim of the BCN Formula workshop is to develop a realtime city planning tool for the Barcelona Grid by Cerda (1856). Living parallel to the existing grid a seducing city will come to flourish, respecting the old rationalist city grid but refraining from any mimicry. The new parallel city of Barcelona will co-exist with the existing one. We will build the multi-player soft machine The Barcelona Formula (using the software programme Virtools) processing emotive force fields in realtime using data from the swarming life, traffic, and commercial activities enfolding in the existing Barcelona grid. These force fields form a continuous fresh flow of raw data for the design of the new parallel city of the Barcelona grid. We think it is important to realize that no city is ever finished. Cities are no museums. We think of city planning not as a top-down pressure but as a strategy for evolving existing social structures. In the workshop we describe the genetic codes of the Barcelona Grid and the Barcelona feeling and atmosphere. We ask the students to design flowcharts diagramming the city as an input > processing > output device. We teach the students to work with the game development programme Virtools (www.virtools.com). We use Virtools for building the multi-player planning game. Playing the planning game produces the data (in realtime), which are used for the design of the buildings from the parallel world. Procedures include intuitive acts. Think of Jackson Pollock producing his dripping paintings. The data produced in realtime by the BCN Formula planning tool will be used as parametric values for the chosen procedures for the geometry. After 10 weeks of hard work we have ended up with a planning tool in the form of a operational multi-player game, and a variety of building proposals forming the city parallel to the Cerda grid. The Workshop BCN Formula was held from 10 January to 15 March 2003 at the ESARQ in Barcelona. The 10 week workshop was a cooperation between the ESARQ, the ONL office (Kas Oosterhuis and Ilona Lénárd) and the Hyperbody Research Group. Other workshops that were held in the same period at the ESARQ were with Karl Chu and Francois Roche. Students ESARQ Barcelona: Alberto Sarasa, Cecilia Morales, Rita Gonzales, Jaume Canals, Luis Darias, Toni Rubio, Sergio de Felix, Sebastian Martorell Mateo, Tobias Garcia Belmonte, Ventura Ramio. |
Kas Oosterhuis, born in 1951 in Amersfoort, Holland, graduated in 1979 with a degree in architecture from TU Delft and currently directs Oosterhuis Associates (http://www.oosterhuis.nl), a multidisciplinary group which brings together individuals of various specializations. He is the co-founder of the Attila Foundation (1994), which pursues the electronic fusion of art and architecture. He is currently teaching at TU Delft. | |||||
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