Search for Code in Architecture

Project Type: Studio Exercise

Title: Museum of Intra-City Transport - (6 weeks Exercise)

Student: Ahsan Jahaangir - (4th year)

College: National College of Arts, Lahore.

Search for CODE IN ARCHITECTURE

Since the ancient times the struggle to find the code of architecture to achieve an abstract structure as the ideal form is evident.

Humans have always been fascinated by the codes, their presence dates back to the prehistoric time. Codes have always been referred as the logical reasons. They surly have existed but it’s the matter of time that has really effected them know as the paradigm shift. From the quadral division of Chahar Bagh in Mughal architecture to le Corbusier s straight lined modernism the

Code has existed in its own spirit.

Concept Visualization

Now working with the most advance technological developments we have the capability to explore thing in such a way that have not been done before. For the present times code no longer exists as the rule or the logical reason but rather as a process.

Processes leading to execution.

Design Development Process 1

Design Development Process 2

With more computational power we can easily say that it’s the spirit of our time that environments also exist virtually for more in depth analysis before their physical existence. All these virtually existing things have been achieved by the simple addition of 3^rd axis on an ordinary Cartesian plane leading it to 3D Cartesian Grid. From simple to complex all elements exist in these three axial planes. It’s nothing but just an understanding of referencing the elements with respect to each other or some origin. It’s all about its adaptive nature of subdivision that makes it more accessible of manipulation and that’s why it’s the primary element in all modeling softwares. Hence there is no such thing as curved line it’s just the combination of lines and further they are the combination of points. I have done all this for the clear understanding of the 3D planes, so that it would be help me later when I will talk about the Pressures & Forces etc. Even when these physical forces work with the planes, they are really not planes but rather sets of identifiable points.

Design Development Process 3

Design Development Process 4

It’s a holistic system where different elements work together in a process, and these sub-processes combines up to make a whole new process, hence a single entity cannot drive a process.

Final Form

Final Form

Final Form

Final Form

These elements can also be called as the parameters; these parameters primarily have two components, Constants & Variables. It’s a simultaneous process were each element is dependent on the other. These elements/parameters constitute the whole project resulting in a complex workable system. In result of these simultaneous processes we’ll have more dynamic & flexible spaces rather than rigid containers. One thing worth mentioning is that these Parameters also develop hierarchy depending upon their influence, Starting from the primary purpose i.e. Museum of intra-city transportation to other elements like Program, identification of spaces, environmental pressures(shown in schematic diagram) etc.

Hence code for me would be,

Simultaneous working of elements/ parameters for the execution.