NYiT SoAD Final Thesis Public Review ARCH 502 Prof Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
Channel: NYIT_AI LAB - MS ACT
Date: 2022-02-14

Thesis Studio 
New York Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Design

Informed Inter-scalar Fluidity 
Thesis Studio Associate Professor Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa


2020 Venice Biennale
The thesis studio is working on a full-scale interactive architecture installation for the "Time-Space-Existence" exhibition at the 2020 Venice Biennale curated by the Global Arts Foundation and the European Cultural Centre, to be hosted at Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy. The School of Architecture and Design at New York Institute of Technology is participating with an exhibition and installation entitled “Inter-scalar Fluidity” co-curated by Associate Professors Marcella del Signore and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa. The exhibition and installation supported by Dean Maria R. Perbellini contribute to the Dean’s development of progressive design thinking and cross-disciplinary computational technologies and is made possible by the S-Lab Grant funding. Due to the current pandemic, the opening for the exhibition and installation has been rescheduled for August 29th, 2020. 

Thesis Studio Brief + Studio Summary
Informed Inter-scalar Fluidity: 
Synthetic Space-Environments through Computational Design Simulations 

This is an experimental Thesis studio focused on analyzing, displacing and designing  computational technologies as a pilot studio for the upcoming Master of Science in Architecture Computational Technologies.   

Installation’s Architecture
The space of the installation is within a small exhibition room on the second floor of Palazzo Bembo, with dimensions of 2.50m x 4.70m. The architecture of the installation proposes cultural projects that engage with histories and theories of the discipline. Students reviewed renaissance models of illusionistic representation (Brunelleschi’s perspective) and how these models were displaced (Borromini Palazzo Spada Gallery). Through this analysis, students eventually understood discourses that presented tensions between real space and illusionistic representations of expansions of space, such as in the late baroque (Pozzo’s Anamorphosis). These studies were then integrated with other means to contain, define, structure, displace and wrap space both virtually and physically.  The installation progressively resolved space as containment activating framing properties, to space defined by frame-objects such as columns that became isolated elements but that structurally frame and design the space. Certain architecture strategies were activated by scientific evidence-based design, addressing the advancement of the Modern Movement. At the same time determination and order imposition were critiqued with ideas of displacement, post-structuralist agendas of non-determination and site specificity taken at a computational representational level. 

The studio worked with computational simulations to critique the determination of algorithms, activating computational problems relative to irreducibility, non-reversibility and emergent evolutive-based computation based on progressive site-based generations. The studio crossed relationships between computational digital models and computationally informed physical models, avoiding linear translations and expanding dimensions across computational technologies including materiality as a design agent. Computational design was extended to robotic fabrication and interactivity, working through diverse computational systems through non-linear feedback the physical actualizations activating material properties. 



STUDENTS 2-4pm:
Andres Carcamo: "Iconography Architecture"
Brianna Lopez: "Parametric Flow"
Peter Leonardi: "Structural Typologies"
Alexandra Panichella: "Material transitions: Feedback between the Analog and the Digital"
Ari Begun: "Spatially Interactive Light"


JURORS
MARIO CARPO, Professor, Bartlett UCL, London
CYNTHIA DAVIDSON, Director Anyone Corporation / Editor Log, NYC
MAIDER LLAGUNO, Principal AZPML, London
FRED LEVRAT, Visiting Professor, Pratt Institute, NYC
SANDRA MANNINGER, Assistant Professor of Practice, Taubman College, Ann Arbor
ALESSANDRO MELIS, Professor of Architecture and Innovation, Portsmouth School of Architecture
GALIA SOLOMONOFF, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia GSAAP, NYC

STUDENTS 4-6pm:
Oluwayemi Oyewole: "Structural Optimization"
Karina Pena: "Dynamics of Humidity and Temperature Advantages"
Isaiah Miller: "Sonic + Sensory"
Benjamin Sather: "[c]ellular Surfaces"

JURORS 
MATIAS DEL CAMPO, Associate Professor, Taubman College, Ann Arbor
KARL CHU, Professor UIC, Barcelona
MARCELLA DEL SIGNORE, Associate Professor, NYIT SoAD
CIRO NAJLE, Dean, Di Tella, Buenos Aires
MARIO GRAZIANO VALENTI, Associate Professor, Sapienza University, Rome

NYIT participants:
MARIA PERBELLINI, Dean NYIT SoAD
TOM VEREBES, Associate Dean, NYIT SoAD
ANTHONY CARADONNA, Assistant Dean, NYIT SoAD
CHRISTIAN PONGRATZ, Senior Advisor to the Provost and Professor, NYIT