11th EAEA Envisioning Architecture: Design, Evaluation, Communication Conference in 2013

Track 3 | Conceptual Representation | Exploring the layout of the built environment

Program, diagram and experience. An inquiry on OMA’s architectural images

ABSTRACT

This paper proposes a classification of OMA’s envisioning models as a contribute to a deeper comprehension of relationships between representation, communication and the actual building. In the past decades Rem Koolhaas has played a central role in producing innovative models for the architectural communication. His interest in urban dynamics and popular mass-media had a fructuous consequence in innovating analytical and synthetic representations that, thanks to the ever-changing design team and an uncommon (self-)critical aptitude, have been both re-interpreted and hybridized by features borrowed from visual arts and other extra-architectural sources. Inspired by a central consideration of a moving person’s experienced space, Koolhaas and his collaborators have programmatically deformed and retouched the canonical orthographical and perspectival views to achieve a number of communicative goals such as an intrinsic congruence with the architectural concept, a transmission of attached meanings and a diffuse fictional atmosphere.

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AUTHORS

Fabio Colonnese

Dept. of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Fabio Colonnese is architect and teacher of Drawing of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome. For his Ph. Doctorate in Drawing and Surveying of Architectural Heritage he discussed a thesis on the Labyrinth as a representation of a route in 2003. His research areas include architectural drawing and surveying, cartography, geometrical and graphical analysis of architecture, literary studies and visual perception. After having published Labyrinth and Architecture (Il labirinto e l'architetto, 2006), he recently published Movement Route Representation (Movimento Percorso Rappresentazione, 2012) to widely investigate architectural implications of both perception of virtual motion and perception in motion.

Marco Carpiceci

Dept. of History, Drawing and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

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