By Lebbeus Woods, John Johansen
John Johansen, now eighty five years outdated, has been one of many preeminent architects within the usa for greater than part a century. After learning below Walter Gropius (who turned his partner's father) at Harvard, he launched into a rare profession marked via experimental household and public layout. on account that retiring from perform, Johansen has committed himself to generating futuristic structure that appears to the most recent applied sciences technology has to offer--from nanotechnology to magnetic levitation to fabric science--for its suggestion. Nanoarchitecture provides 11 of Johansen's so much encouraged visions. A floating convention middle, an house development that sprouts from the earth and grows by itself, and a levitating auditorium all exhibit Johansen's capricious but thought-provoking rules. Taken jointly, they give an antidote to a lot of brand new form-driven perform. The initiatives in Nanoarchitecture are offered via a sequence of idiosyncratic types, drawings, and desktop animations suggesting what it'd be wish to inhabit those amazing areas. Nanoarchitecture is designed by means of the award-winning perform COMA."[Johansen] issues towards the production of a brand new vernacular, a brand new textile of area and time during which glossy event can bring up, extend, and deepen." --Lebbeus Woods
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Such a structure will require a self-balancing system. Strategically placed sensors will monitor any destabilizing forces, such as horizontal wind loads, snow loads, or shifting live loads. The habitable enclosures of plastic will be molded in appropriate forms, just as yacht hulls are produced of fiberglass-reinforced resin. Forces are transferred throughout the shell, eliminating the conventional frame. Other features of this design are the serpentine tubes that house people-moving “levita- tors,” a helipad, the central concourse from which access is made to the auditorium, simulation chamber, meeting rooms, restaurant, and computer center surrounded by a cluster of work stations.
A similar design could be suspended beneath bridges designed to withstand concentrated loads. The triangulated structural frame can be assembled on the ground, lifted, and leveled with ease—later to be completed as additional struts are attached as standardized nodes. Such a structure will require a self-balancing system. Strategically placed sensors will monitor any destabilizing forces, such as horizontal wind loads, snow loads, or shifting live loads. The habitable enclosures of plastic will be molded in appropriate forms, just as yacht hulls are produced of fiberglass-reinforced resin.
The habitable enclosures of plastic will be molded in appropriate forms, just as yacht hulls are produced of fiberglass-reinforced resin. Forces are transferred throughout the shell, eliminating the conventional frame. Other features of this design are the serpentine tubes that house people-moving “levita- tors,” a helipad, the central concourse from which access is made to the auditorium, simulation chamber, meeting rooms, restaurant, and computer center surrounded by a cluster of work stations.