Formal analysis

Formal Analysis YSoA

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Selected work from Formal Analysis with Peter Eisenman and Miroslava Brooks

(Yale School of Architecture, 2012. Critic: Peter Eisenman.)

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Explore the sketches, etchings, drawings and diagrams that shaped the future of design.

(Yale School of Architecture, 2012. Critic: Peter Eisenman.)

The Meeting Place at the Salk Institute is one of Kahn’s most meticulously designed unbuilt plans. While designing the Salk Institute laboratories (1965) Kahn developed a counterpoint to the laboratory design with the design of the Meeting Place. For Kahn, the Meeting Place would bring balance to the laboratories of the Salk Institute, and stated that “if the laboratories were the Salk Institute’s lungs, then the Meeting Place would be its brain.” Although the Meeting Place was not…

Figure 5: Analytic grammar - "A Grammar of Perforated Masonry Walls. A formal analysis of brick walls used for shading and ventilation in Paraguay"

This paper describes a grammar for Perforated Masonry Walls of contemporary Paraguayan brick architecture. In these walls, bricks are arranged to generate different patterns, utilizing a series of rules that define the formal relation between oblongs. The masonry walls selected for this study provide shade and natural ventilation, and are used to improve thermal comfort in buildings. The paper, first, presents an analytical study that extracts the underlying generative rules for…