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What we did in mid ninetieth
We were using animation software to create complex forms
We always had a problem of stopping
We all were using flocking software
A flock of birds or a shoal of fish
Is a bottom-up self-organization
We were all getting free software to create flocks
We stopped with the button on the computer
Ok, this is a beautiful form and it looks like a post office
Or it looks like a museum
Which is extremely silly
What actually Fray Otto told me
Is that techniques of complexity
The techniques of self-organization
Have to be inherently architectural
It has to be an architectural system to produce an architectural outcome
You can't just photograph a flock of birds
And then try to make a museum out of it
There is also big differents
When you have this complex forms
You would go to an engineer and say
Look, you must do an architectural structure out of this
And he would put some columns under it
You would have to put some columns under it to make it structural
This is material is implicitly, inherently structural
This is actually constructivism
Not Russian constructivism
But it is constructing
While it becomes form
While it is morpho-genetic
It actually takes a structural properties
This is structure - it works with forces
Next project is called D-tower
It is art project
It is a web site a questioner and a small tower
This is for a city in the east of Holland which has 50 000 inhabitants
Every year out of the 50 000 - 50 are selected to become the representatives
This representatives get a password
With the password they can access the questioner
The questioner is about love, hate, happiness and fear
This are a few of questions
"I'm afraid of my direct environment"
"I'm happy with my relationships"
"I love my relationships"
"I hate my relationships"
This is typical January questions
In December it's about
"How much do you drink?"
"Do you hit your children?"
About your mother-in-law, about your mortgage
All this answers
All this responses to the questioner
Are graphed in landscapes
"mood landscapes"
This is acceptable for everybody
You can visit www.d-toren.nl
You can see all the behavior of all the people
The 50 people in that city
This is the fear landscape
That works on the zip-codes
Underneath here there are zip-codes of the city
Every pick - is a neighborhood
So you get less fear and more fear
You can click on this and you'll see
On what streets of the neighborhood you get so much fear
The artwork will be there for the next 30-40 or 50 years
We've built up an archive of emotions of the city
You can always see in what neighborhood of city
How emotions were doing in a different areas
Now we got the questioner on the website
Now we go to the tower
Since I've worked with historical references
This is Bernini in st.Peter
This is the baldachin
In Holland people are not very used
To use an architecture as art
Architecture in Holland is always utilitarian
You never have fountains or this type of canopies
Which are much more used in southern Europe than in Holland
This is a tower by Nicolas Schoffer
It was never built
It was meant to be higher than the Eiffel tower for Paris
It was designed in 1950's
It was visualizing all the behavior in infrastructure
How much people are using the telephone
How much television they were watching
By what he called "the cybernetic tower"
He could actually see all the behavior what normally invisible
I started to design a tower
Very strange - by a pulsating sphere
A bit like a heart
Which is actually problematic when you want to design a tower
Here you see the heart
And here you see my desk
I made a 3-dimentional object out of that digital object
Here is my "Fry Otto" book
I was very interested in this "shopping bag" model
He started with a shopping bag and then he puts all shopping in there
The pumpkins and the milk and everything
And it takes on a form
Maybe I already have the form
I just need the handles of the "shopping bag"
You can see here - I'm using the form to calculate the handles
This one is digitized
And turned upside-down to become that one
More historical references
I'm using tempietto as a reference
The problem of Greek architecture is - you have all the elements separated
You have the dome, you have the freeze, you have the columns
The gothic is much more abstract
Because the gothic uses the elements that doesn't have the name yet
If you bundle a number of lines
It actually becomes a column
If you unweave them - it becomes a vault
What the Greeks try to solve
By separating elements
Making discrete elements
The gothic is actually using by continuity
Through continuity it creates architectural elements
There's no clear separation between vault and column
No line here that says the column stops and the vault begins
It's pure variation
Here you see the engineering sides of the "D-tower"
This is the calculation
If you don't work with elements
You have a problem with your engineer
Because an engineer works with beam and column
In this case he doesn't say "ok, that's vault and that's column"
Its all - one surface
The engineer is not using typical architectural software to calculate the structure
But he's using airplane software
He's using software that looks how the surface takes up loads
In this case we give to tower the material of epoxy
Now he's calculating with wind forces and gravity
Calculating different thicknesses of the material
In the column it is thicker than at the top
18 mm vs. 4 mm
Here you see how we make the panels out of epoxy
Here you see c'n'c machine (computer numerical control)
And the milling machine following all the information of the computer
This is a block of sterofol - very cheap
And the computer is milling out the form of each panel
You put the blocks together
You cover them with plastic
And then you get the panel
And then you glue them together
This project took 2 years longer than calculated
Because of inhabitants hated ů
The people are living around here
They hated the Object
We had to organize evenings with the inhabitants to explain the design
They said "look Lars, I have never seen anything so ugly"
I said "Yes, it is ugly"
I told them a story about my sister having a baby
When my sister got a baby - it was a terribly ugly baby
The whole family was standing around the baby
Doing all this nice gestures
I was totally shocked
I said basically it will be the same with you guys
First you think it's ugly
But then you will love it
They will love it for a very special reason
Because the computer knows
Because of all the answers
The computer knows which emotion is most intensively felt at that day
When love is a number 1
D-tower turns red
When happiness is number 1 - it turns blue
Since we are in the Nederlands
The big problem is that you can have 100% of blue
Because everybody is always suppose to be happy
It's nice for people but it's bad for art
Arter it's been on now for 8 month
Happiness is indeed on number 1
Because it get 50% of happiness
It's not love on number 2 - its hate
35% of time - its hate
They hate their boss, they hate their familie
Every time you drive home in night from work
This is in a very prominent place in the city
You see that the thing is green
At home you immediately go to the web site to see
Where there's more hate