Digital Agency: The Role of Digital Tools in Architectural History

Kathleen O'Gara Author

08/03/2021 Added

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This project explores four buildings by Steven Holl Architects and BNIM Architects, specifically the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Lewis Center for the arts, the Reach-JFK Center, and the Visual Arts Building.

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[00:00:01.200]My name is Kathleen O'Gara and I am a student in the University of Nebraska
[00:00:04.800]Lincoln's college of architecture. The faculty advisor for this project is Dr.
[00:00:09.690]Peter Olshavsky. Our UCARE project is titled digital agency.
[00:00:14.910]The role of digital tools in architectural history.
[00:00:21.000]This project explores four buildings by Steven Holl,
[00:00:23.820]architects and BNIM architects,
[00:00:26.490]specifically the Nelson Atkins museum of art,
[00:00:29.940]the Lewis center for the arts,
[00:00:32.070]the reach JFK center and the visual arts building.
[00:00:37.770]The first project is the Nelson Atkins museum of art expansion in Kansas city,
[00:00:42.000]Missouri,
[00:00:43.320]also known as the block building construction on this project was completed in
[00:00:47.610]2007. Here's a description provided by the architects.
[00:00:52.470]It talks about how the project consists of five interconnected structures or
[00:00:56.280]lenses.
[00:00:58.170]The project was an architectural competition and the rules state that you only
[00:01:02.880]could build the north of the existing structure,
[00:01:05.700]but Steven Holl decided to break the rules and go down a landscape along the
[00:01:09.180]east side of the site,
[00:01:13.710]the galleries have a harmonious relationship with the sculpture garden above and
[00:01:17.850]the lenses bring different light qualities into the spaces.
[00:01:24.660]The nest project is Lewis center for the arts on Princeton university's campus.
[00:01:30.270]The building was completed in 2017.
[00:01:34.830]The complex has three buildings, the theater and dance building,
[00:01:39.030]an arts building and a music building.
[00:01:42.060]It is an important part of this project that the forum,
[00:01:45.690]an important part of this project is the forum that connects the buildings on
[00:01:48.840]the ground level.
[00:01:51.360]Stephen Holl's watercolor here does a great job of communicating the main
[00:01:55.050]concepts behind each foot thing.
[00:01:58.260]And this is a beautiful picture of the music building.
[00:02:01.800]And then some of the interior spaces,
[00:02:05.640]the region expansion to the Kennedy center for the performing arts in
[00:02:08.940]Washington, DC was finished in 2019.
[00:02:13.230]The Kennedy center is a community centered place where people can interact with
[00:02:17.070]artists and explore creative processes.
[00:02:20.550]The expansion added rehearsal education, and many flexible spaces,
[00:02:25.320]indoors and outdoors, like many of Stephen Hall's,
[00:02:29.640]other projects. This one features a green roof,
[00:02:32.610]and it is the largest green roof in Washington DC.
[00:02:38.220]The last project is the visual arts building on the university of Iowa's campus
[00:02:42.210]completed in 2016.
[00:02:45.990]The five main concepts behind this project are interconnection through
[00:02:49.830]horizontal programs in vertical porosity,
[00:02:54.150]multiple centers of flight stairs as vertical social condensers
[00:02:59.200]corridors as horizontal meaning places, campus space,
[00:03:03.610]definition slash porosity and material resonance
[00:03:08.440]slash ecological innovation.
[00:03:12.400]The seven centers of light greatly influenced the form of the building,
[00:03:16.930]which led to dynamic interiors.
[00:03:21.610]I was able to take a trip to Iowa city this summer to see the visual arts
[00:03:24.910]building on the campus of the university of Iowa,
[00:03:27.970]where I photographed both the visual arts building and the art building west
[00:03:31.870]also designed by Steven Holl.
[00:03:34.930]This picture is from inside art building west with a view of the visual arts
[00:03:38.680]building in the background.
[00:03:43.540]This UCare project research, the work of the celebrated architects,
[00:03:47.500]Stephen Holl in collaboration with BNIM architects,
[00:03:51.850]the project seek to establish a theoretical and practical framework to use
[00:03:56.680]digital tools, to input, organize, manage,
[00:03:59.710]and frame architectural information for historical inquiry.
[00:04:04.270]The platform we first had in mind layer,
[00:04:06.940]which is new and was developed to manage construction data for the restoration
[00:04:10.750]of the Nebraska Capitol has never been used in architectural scholarship.
[00:04:16.930]The goal of the platform is to act as the primary database and interface for
[00:04:21.160]students and faculty to collaborate while building a set of multimedia layers
[00:04:26.140]about the buildings being studied and later interpreted
[00:04:31.810]in the early research early in the research Dr.
[00:04:35.350]Olshavsky and I found that layer is not,
[00:04:38.020]I is not the ideal platform for this research.
[00:04:42.010]The goal was to input multimedia information into layer so that
[00:04:46.870]it is geospatial located relative to the building spaces.
[00:04:51.820]For example,
[00:04:52.780]a clip of audio interview about a gallery and the Nelson Atkins museum
[00:04:58.090]would be linked directly to a plan drawing of that space,
[00:05:01.390]along with other texts in photographs of the same space,
[00:05:05.830]since it was not designed specifically for argues,
[00:05:08.740]it was not set up to support all kinds of file types like video and audio
[00:05:13.240]files though.
[00:05:15.100]The spatial aspect of layer was unique and interesting to explore.
[00:05:19.390]It added a level of complexity to the file organization that was unnecessary
[00:05:24.220]for this architectural research.
[00:05:27.550]We changed our digital platform to one drive and one drive.
[00:05:30.490]We created a detailed file tree for organizing the data I gathered primary
[00:05:35.380]and secondary information, including construction drawings, sketches,
[00:05:39.730]photographs, videos, scholarly texts, printed,
[00:05:43.810]and audio interviews,
[00:05:45.340]and other forms of evidence on the four Seminole buildings by Steven Holl
[00:05:50.350]in association with BNIM architects.
[00:05:54.970]And then I organize this multimedia information into the file tree,
[00:05:58.310]along with data previously gathered by other students and Dr. Olshavsky
[00:06:05.320]beyond this grant.
[00:06:06.130]And the value of this research is its contribution to a crucial understanding of
[00:06:11.080]the celebration of celebrated collaboration between Stephen Holland.
[00:06:15.070]BNIM that resulted in four renowned projects.
[00:06:19.600]This will aid in the development of a scholarly book on the subject and will
[00:06:23.320]also contribute to a larger project. Dr.
[00:06:26.140]Olshavsky is working on called the Stephen home guide book.
[00:06:30.940]I'd like to acknowledge the university of Nebraska's UCare program,
[00:06:34.630]the college of architecture and Dr. Peter Olshavsky. Thank you.

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