hence the fascination with windmills and lighthouses
Given the context I’m assuming that’s his “take that, harvard architecture!” smirk.
All the updoots ever for this quote. I love that book and hate wasps as much as Case does.
Did someone leave the Lovecraft option on? I’m getting a “The Dreams in the Witch House” vibe here. The angles are all wrong.
I want the plan reworked so it isn’t required to be on one floor. Then have random wall segments be transparent with others being mirrored. The Hvac would show up like bright silver capillaries and the entire thing would be covered in a transparent dome.
The students are supposed to eliminate each other on the way to the exit. That way, the total (remaining) student population can be evacuated much faster.
Sometimes those maximum optimization settings can be risky.
I remain convinced that one of the early studies of a California school’s “cancer clusters” (featured in The Great Power-Line Cover-Up, by Paul Brodeur) ends up demonstrating mainly that repeated exposure to the word “pod” de-activates critical-reasoning portions of the human brain, leading to report-skimming and mindless belief / deficits in healthy skepticism.
As usual, Pratchett has been here before .
https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Professor_of_Recondite_Architecture_and_Origami_Map_Folding
We already have cafetoriums, so could librerias be far behind?
I was coming at it from the other direction: I’d love to see what this turned out if expanded to 3d, but constrained to the limits of realistic structural engineering and conventional enough a typical human builder could follow the blueprints.
The ductwork and works in general would be nicely abbreviated, that seems fine. Though simultaneously optimizing for smallest hall paths and -never having to hear an adjacent classroom- would of course crack things up a bit. What sort of curved insulated glass with microfluidic blocking or e-paper or stained glass or microlens-work will the computer specify this week? Just ship last week’s Gorilla Glass 6 to Africa with the Tom’s.
Resemble brains…
Bit without the wrap-round net that is newly discovered or something. ABC…Allen Brain Center WebGL sims! And closing.
Kaleberg> glandular architecture…
Let’s Design a Middle School with a gymnastics, soccer, detention, redirection, Galerians, track, 5 Orthodoxies, bike shed, community aging and design program! OMG that’s a better The Escapists. If it’s built with inflatable fad cemented on, morning announcements can include schedule area clearance for literal evacuation too. Don’t move the furniture…let atmospheric pressure do it! Gosh those control frogs seem a little careworn today. LeBron endorsed gym content… Firewall construction challenge to not fail in 4 iterations. Storm Safe Areas. Snow whatnot. LEED habitable roof. But force the Maker Circle to have 7D printers, 4D in pinchy years, so those printing 3D guns feel a bit sheepish? Magnumque, demarshall! (Yes, that was ‘Magnum, Duck!’) Also extensive use of hallways that don’t exist or are subject to admonition can’t be helped. Juuling again in the eversion capeway, are we, Grovesnap?
gelfin> typical human builder could follow the blueprints
I think a nice to have would include that if it must be built by Union Labor then it must not be necessary to rip up and rebuild many Unions in order to do that, so it’s not necessary to purchase them Push-To-Talk-To-Rigel-301 handsets. Otherwise it’s like going into NemelulczykCAD DFA and arbiting that malicious builders need to stand a 71% chance of recovering any possible error (and there’s a weighted tree.) Need that modularized carpet pattern from Netscape HQ though…if the carpet is visually hostile and can demonstrate every tiling of the plane, wall dysphoria takes a back seat. What is ADA-compliant reentrant access before we mess with it to enable liftings of the plane, anyhow? Does it not require Turkish subs of Dr. Who but with Mrs. Who also in, just for the site materials audit?
On the opposite end,
How about we try to let computers optimize architects?
Open school floorplans were a thing. They even had some high-minded theory(largely unsullied by crass empiricism). Shockingly, a design that exposes you to all the noise of an entire school didn’t work out so well except among the most stimulus-craving.
The users resorted to assorted field expedient barriers based on bookshelves and the like in fairly short order; and at least some of the fad-period constructs had proper walls retrofitted.
Now we just pretend that the same thing enhances creativity in the office…
Windows are the very next design constraint (aka fitness function) that was added in the paper. tl;dr -> lots of interior courtyards
Awesome. I like that I’ve probably forgotten more of those books than I remember so when I get around to reading them again there’ll still be plenty of surprises.
I live in a neighborhood where the 1950’s-60’s designers oriented homes on random angles and irregular distances from the street as to eliminate any direct view into each other’s homes. The positions were designed for aesthetics as well. Situated in a wooded environment the end result is very pleasing and very much worth the effort. However, the randomness of all the connecting tubes and wires to the homes drove city planners crazy. The orderly Levittown approach where every home had exactly the same offset and orientation from the street was thrown to the wind adding extra costs / effort to construct. I am very happy that the original architects were able to pull it off back then but, I doubt they could get away with it today.
Those tend to come with their own set of problems.
Not that an atrium can’t be a very nice thing indeed.
