Love curves
The straight line is for the simple man. The caves are for primitive man. The curve is for the superior man, for the neo-futurist man. When art and technology dance, we can reach the architectural peak of the moment. Architecture must boast of all the knowledge acquired so far, it must show today.
We shouldn't live in boxes. In nature there are no straight lines, it is a man-made concept. When the architect decides to use curves it is the response of the connection with the earth, the organic and fluid.
The "Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Arts Center" 2019, China, by the 2004 Prizker-winning architect Zaha Hadid, is a geographical accident in itself. It has its own internal structure. Three forms emerge on an immense esplanade of gigantic proportions. Shapes molded by a giant, with her hands she has created plastic forms closer to the soul than to the mind. Then technology plays its role, it is necessary to make these shapes possible, the work of the giant. Endowed with movement, fluidity and life, it makes these architectural beings take over the space they occupy. They lack nothing, balconies that overlook the interior atrium, layers, overhangs, play of light, purity of the material, use clean, technological white. Every detail is pampered, in the interiors you feel the presence of the wind, you see its footprints, sinuous and fluid, you experience being inside an organism full of life.
Inspired by the work of Bauhaus artist Paul Klee, Renzo Piano devised The Zentrum 2005, Bern. It is a cultural center that houses some 4,000 works by the plastic artist. It creates ripples on the ground where there is a fuzzy boundary. Is it the land that becomes metal topography? Is it construction that penetrates the ground? The architect does not intend to create a geographical accident as a mass alienates the environment; he seeks to continue what nature has begun. "A work of a topographical nature or a knowledgeable peasant, rather than an architectural work" Piano humbly explained. To achieve all these topographic forms it is necessary to go hand in hand with the structure. Steel, glass and concrete give rise to three smooth and winding hills that appear in the landscape, it accepts them and continues on its way. The bowels of the hills are left bare, stripped of any artifice, they leave the material exposed, nothing distracts everything; it is pure and contemplative; like an underground cellar that houses valuable works of art.
Technology at the mercy of architecture allows an apparent break with what exists. There is no pre-established formal commitment, only commitment to the insatiable search for impossible forms, the horizons of neo-futurism, technology and the purist imagination.
How
do I draw my futuristic shapes?
When
your ideas go far from academic formalities, inflexible teachers and pragmatic
thinking, you need good tools to draw your dreams.
Autodesk
3DS Max, BIM software (Building Information Modeling) - for example Autodesk
Revit, RHinoceros 3D and Computer-Aided Three-d dimensional Interactive
Application (CATIA), are examples of programs to make these drawings and make
it easier for us to do calculations of different kinds. CATIA was first
designed for the aeronautical industry and was used in Frank O. Gehry’s
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao 1997, for its formal complexity. By using Revit for
example, you not only create a 3d model but you can quantify materials,
structures and infinities of very useful and practical data if your building
falls outside the "norm". The BIM system is very useful, that is
clear, but in my humble opinion, if you want a render that reflects the beauty
of your building, I recommend that you use a program and render engine that
effectively calculates light. You can see some examples made with Autodesk 3D
Max on my website.
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| Zentrum Paul Klee, 2005 Renzo Piano |
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