Monday, December 01, 2003
Memories and Digital Architecture
James Sanders has an excellent article in the NY Times about the release of the eight finalists for the Twin Towers memorial and, more specifically, the use of animatics and other technological enhancements to "view" the designs. He writes:
Also fascinating are the 8 finalists for the World Trade Centre memorial. How can view the finalists here. One of them looks amazingly like the clear-screen technology that appeared in Minority Report! Go have a look!
James Sanders has an excellent article in the NY Times about the release of the eight finalists for the Twin Towers memorial and, more specifically, the use of animatics and other technological enhancements to "view" the designs. He writes:
Sanders' article does a fantastic historical overview of how architecture has been represented and how designs have been accessed before building has commenced. He also makes some fascinating speculations about the future of architecture and the WTC site itself.Amid the fanfare and controversy over the release of the eight finalists' designs for the World Trade Center memorial, one of the most transformative aspects of the event has gone all but unremarked. In addition to presenting their designs through conventional architectural drawings and models, the finalists used sophisticated computer animation to show what the memorials might look like as visitors approached them, walked around them, moved through them. ... With the chance to view the designs in this dynamic, strikingly "cinematic" way, the public was given its first glimpse of a revolution that has been under way for the past few years. Indeed, the memorial competition itself accelerated that revolution, harnessing the explosion in broadband Internet access to allow millions of people around the world to view the animated presentations, more or less at once — something that was never before possible. The results are extraordinary, and open up all kinds of new possibilities, not only for architecture and design but for the entire civic process. They also call attention to one of the oldest paradoxes of architectural practice: the techniques by which architects render their buildings, which you might imagine to be an afterthought to the actual process of design, have in fact had a powerful effect on the buildings themselves. Presentation doesn't just reveal the prevailing urban and architectural values of an era — surprisingly often, it helps to shape them.
Also fascinating are the 8 finalists for the World Trade Centre memorial. How can view the finalists here. One of them looks amazingly like the clear-screen technology that appeared in Minority Report! Go have a look!
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