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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

Organization and software trend (soa-eda.blogspot.com )

1. the nineties of 20th. century (before Internet)
2. first decade of 21st. century
3. second decade of 21st. century

the nineties of 20th. century (before Internet)

de-spatialization – global computing cloud

SaaS (Software as a Service)
HaaS (Hardware as a Service)
virtualization: from desktop to datacenters (more efficient, green, dynamic)
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

Organization and software trend (soa-eda.blogspot.com )

1. the nineties of 20th. century (before Internet)
2. first decade of 21st. century
3. second decade of 21st. century
1. Hierarchical cities:
Filarete, sforzinda, 1464
Palmanova, 7/10/1593
2. Decentralized cities:
Paris, Georges-Eugène haussmann,
1852-70
New york commpssioners plan
1881
3. Distributed cities
:Randstadt, fiandre

de-spatialization – global computing cloud

SaaS (Software as a Service)
HaaS (Hardware as a Service)
virtualization: from desktop to datacenters (more efficient, green, dynamic)
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

The collapse of knowledge work

cathedrals ratify the fragmentation
of the barriers, which once
separated daily, weekly, yearly and
biographically the productive part
of life.
New physical and communication
spaces match up with temporal re-
re
articulations generated by
Informatics acceleration and
dromotic: from time-place of hic et
nunc to time-light of the extended
telepresence

de-spatialization - the diffusive process

non-linear phenomena: room, building, city
about stochastic behaviours in the atomization of living conditions
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse
architecture is not simply
about space and form, but
also about event, action,
and what happens in space.
B Tschumi
B.
“CROSSPROGRAMMING”
“TRANSPROGRAMMING”
“DISPROGRAMMING”
-Architecture has always been as much about the event
-that takes place in a space as about the space itself.
-The Columbia University Rotunda has been a library, it has been used as a banquet hall, it is often the site
of university lectures; someday it could fulfill the needs for an athletic facility at the University. What a
wonderful swimming pool the Rotunda would be
- “the respective contamination of all categories, the constant substitutions, the confusion of genres” --
as described by critics of the right and left alike from Andreas Huyssens to Jean Baudrillard -- is the new
direction of our times…”
times ”
- “If architecture is both concept and experience, space and use, structure and superficial image -- non-
hierarchically -- then architecture should cease to separate these categories and instead merge them into
unprecedented combinations of programs and spaces.”
space movement events space movement events space movement events

“EVENTUALIZATION” OF ARCHITECTURE
“events of thought”
- For Foucault, an event is not simply a logical sequence of words or actions, but rather “the moment of
erosion, collapse, questioning, or problematization of the very assumptions of the setting within which a
drama may take place -- occasioning the chance or possibility of another, different setting.” The event here
is seen as a turning point -- not an origin or an end -- as opposed to such propositions as “form follows
function.” I would like to propose that the future of architecture lies in the construction of such events.
[…] Jacques Derrida expanded on the definition of event, calling it “the emergence of a disparate
multiplicity.”
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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

Abstract machines
Graphs/Networks

UN Studio
Routes and paths
Van Berkel + Bos
diagrammatic functional composition
density-equalizing projections a tool density-equalizing
for presentation mapsand analysis of geographic
prof. drdatareadable maps
manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living the diffusion-based
contingency andmethod for producing
design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

re-spatialization
re spatialization - the abstract machine
graphs: data processing in social sciences
density-equalizing projections a tool density-equalizing
for presentation mapsand analysis of geographic
prof. drdatareadable maps
manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living the diffusion-based
contingency andmethod for producing
design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

re-spatialization
re spatialization - the abstract machine
graphs: data processing in social sciences
density-equalizing projections a tool density-equalizing
for presentation mapsand analysis of geographic
prof. drdatareadable maps
manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living the diffusion-based
contingency andmethod for producing
design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

re spatialization - the abstract machine

re-spatialization
graphs: data processing in social sciences
alden s. klovdahl, australia national university (s.w. view_net) social graph records bonds of friendship
among 450 people in canberra, australia
carlo ratti, mit-telecom italia, real time rome, venezia 2006
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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

maps describing urban phenomena as systems of fields, knots, links

re-spatialization - phenomenology of the existing

reading spatial uses: synaptic spaces and instant junctions
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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

re spatialization – the rhizomatic space

re-spatialization
informal settements
spontaneous urban morphogenetic process: porousity and cellular automata
hypogeal si he yuan, shaan xi; Catalhoyuk, map, 6.500 bc ca.
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

interspace and progression

Luigi canina, descrizione storica
del foro romano e sue adiacenze,
roma, 1834
“So Rome, whehther imperial or
papal, hard or soft, is here
offered as some sort of model
which might be envisaged as
alternative to the disastrous
urbanism of social engineering and
total design[…it] provides perhaps
the most graphic example of
collisive fields and interstitial
debris…”(p.107)
Nuova Pianta di Roma Data in Luce
da Giambattista Nolli, 1748

re-spatialization
re spatialization – the rhizomatic space
urban morphogenetic processes: collisive fields
spatial events, finite models and interstitial debris
"a proposal for constructive disillusion, it is simultaneously an appeal for order and disorder, for the
simple and the complex, for the joint existence of permanent reference and random happening, of the
private and the public, of innovation and tradition, of both the retrospective and prophetic gesture.”
colin rowe, fred koetter, collage city
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Undefined y over-definition: “The sustained generalized dispersion gave rise to the formation of
recurrent tissue figures in the territory: the isolated terraced houses in the middle of nowhere;
the notorious corner with pubs at the tramway stop; the commercial ribbon development along
national roads; the ribbon fragment along whatever road and so on.” Bruno de Meulder, Old dispersion…

re-spatialization
re spatialization – the rhizomatic space
urban morphogenetic processes. west and east flanders: from archipelago to rhizome
An incredibly dense of nationwide networks of different complementary infrastructure (canals, road,
railways) “created an ‘universal’ accessibility for each spot of the territory […] and consequently an
equal development potential that ultimately led to an ISOTROPIC CONDITION. […] Everywhere – on
the periphery of the capital city or in the remote hamlets – an emerging, permanent type of urbanity was
generated, juxtaposing housing, industry and commerce over the whole territory.”
Bruno de Meulder, Old dispersion and scenes for the production of public space – The constructive margins of secondarity, AD, 78-2, 2008
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

re-spatialization
re spatialization – the rhizomatic space
urban morphogenetic processes
west and east flanders: from archipelago to rhizome
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

re-spatialization
re spatialization – superposition principle and social “bricoleur”
bricoleur
urban morphogenetic processes: dis-junction and space re-institutions
oma, design forum, yokohama ; lars vilks, nimis, driftwood ladonia
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

re-spatialization
re spatialization – urban nonlinearities
urban morphogenetic processes:
stapling spaces beyond superposition
learning from mağusa
cyprus international urban design research project
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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

urban design instruments

sustainability patterns
energy, environment and community
Kowloon walled city, hong kong; steven holl, linked hybrid, beijing; foster and partners, masdar
development, abu dhabi; arup, dongtan eco-city, shanghai
 prof. dr manfredo manfredini – polimi.it
living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

Learning from London working class streets of East London

Team X, Urban Re-identification Grid, IX CIAM 1953

LEARNING FROM ALTINDAĞ SOLID AIR – STREETS IN THE AIR

HILL
dwelling system established
by internal migrators from
country towns to the city,
introducing a urban “rural”
character: cohesive
communities settle
integrated neighbourhood
where reciprocity and
mutualism affect every daily
action. As metropolitan
concealed cites (modern
underground defence
villages), these settlements
host houses built with
primary available “natural”
urban resources (merz-
bauten on own place-time
accord).
urban design instruments
community patterns
urban renewal the neighborhood unit. connecting tissues: street house and settlement of the INFORMAL urbanism
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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

urban design instruments

sustainability patterns
energy, environment and community
architecture and participation: restoration and upgrade of quartiere regina giovanna, milan
a social, urban, architectural and energetic intervention
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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

porousity and cellular automata

urban design instruments
mobility patterns
multimodal nodeAND
NOMADISM in the milan meropolitanFROM
DETERRITORIALIZATION: area YURTS TO TRANSPORTER
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living contingency and design in-determinacy: aedificare necesse est, vivere non necesse

porousity and cellular automata

urban design instruments
complexity patterns
Abstract machines: information and generative processes
Jeremy bentham, panopticon; oma, functional diagrams, un studio, arnhem central, peter eisenman,
city of culture of galicia, santiago de compostela