LACHARD ARTHUR BOOK

This project has been published in the article of Denis Deryce and David Lo Buglio, «Education in Architectural Analysis through Hybrid Graphic Means: a Setup for Critical Thinking » and introduce in the seminar act 2014 «Design & Communication Association Conference - Design & Graphic Palimpsest » (Atlanta):

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"Drawn between 1963 and 1967 by Georges Candilis, Alexis Josilic and Shadrach Woods, Berlin Free University is an emblematic instance of Team X structuralist design. Challenging and redefining the instutional understanding of a university, architecture is now a system made of micro urban structure and sub structures wherein various modules take place according to specific rules. Student were asked ti proceed to a formal analysis of the project, and then to translate their observations into a procedural model: a piece of code written in Python, the scripting modeling language embedded in Blender, an open source 3D modeling software. Compositional rules are programmed to configuration based on random - but within a range - parameters. At a first glance, this type of structuralist approach of a structuralist architecture might just bring out very conventional results. Yet, if we leave open the process for some sort of rendition, an interesting understanding of structuralism can appear through the use of well chosen graphic means, as we will expose here below with the work of Arthur Lachard"

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The module object in  python

list_module = [ ]

class module ( ):

        def __init__ (self,name,size): 

                self.name = name
                self.size = [sx,sy,sz] 

                self.pos_loc = GetIdealLoc (self)
                if len(self.pos_loc) != 0:    

                        self.location=choice(self.pos_loc)  

                        list_module.append (self)    

                else:  

                        print (‘sorry, density overload’)  

                        break 

 
module ( ClassRoomType1 , (7,5,3.5) )