Monday, October 18, 2010
Behavioral setting 2nd sketch
Modeling Domestic Architecture
Today I attended the lecture for Modeling Domestic Architecture by Kevin Glowaki. I honestly had no idea what this lecture was going to be about, but it ended up being pretty interesting. In this lecture Glowaki explained the process that architects from the Archaeological Institute of America went through in order to model what Crete consisted of before its abandonment.
It is somewhat amazing all the information that these architects recovered from studying the grounds and by using other resources. They were able to discover that at the time of the abandonment in eastern Crete there were 15-20 houses on the site and a large room with storerooms for the ruler's dwelling. In order to reconstruct the missing elements the architects used the topography, remains, comparisons with other sites, and venacular building traditions during that period. Because much of the remains had decayed they used "interpretive leaps" to make decisions on the design of the sites.
In reconstructing this abandoned site the architects had several goals. First they developed a digital reconstruction based on data recorded at the time of the excavation. Also they had to figure out the "kinks" in their models and decide what worked and what didn't work. Finally the architects explored the contributions of the models for an understanding of the architecture of ancient crete.
With their resulting model the architects hoped to present effective visualization. Effective visualization helps them promote several things such as cognition of large amounts of data, perception of unanticipated properties, recognition of problems in data quality, clarification of relationships, and lastly forming a hypothesis.
Although the lectures from today were very short I was still able to understand the main points in each lecture. In my opinion it is very impressive that the architects on this project were able to recover so much material and data in order to basically reconstruct the ancient site. It just goes to show what technology can really do these days.
It is somewhat amazing all the information that these architects recovered from studying the grounds and by using other resources. They were able to discover that at the time of the abandonment in eastern Crete there were 15-20 houses on the site and a large room with storerooms for the ruler's dwelling. In order to reconstruct the missing elements the architects used the topography, remains, comparisons with other sites, and venacular building traditions during that period. Because much of the remains had decayed they used "interpretive leaps" to make decisions on the design of the sites.
In reconstructing this abandoned site the architects had several goals. First they developed a digital reconstruction based on data recorded at the time of the excavation. Also they had to figure out the "kinks" in their models and decide what worked and what didn't work. Finally the architects explored the contributions of the models for an understanding of the architecture of ancient crete.
With their resulting model the architects hoped to present effective visualization. Effective visualization helps them promote several things such as cognition of large amounts of data, perception of unanticipated properties, recognition of problems in data quality, clarification of relationships, and lastly forming a hypothesis.
Although the lectures from today were very short I was still able to understand the main points in each lecture. In my opinion it is very impressive that the architects on this project were able to recover so much material and data in order to basically reconstruct the ancient site. It just goes to show what technology can really do these days.
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