Ok, I'm cheating because I read Peter's round-up post of everyone else's posts. I am also cheating because last class we made a lists of words and I shall now steal some lists of words from other people in the pursuit of defining intensity.
Besides the fact that he spells realization funny, CB is specifically chronicling the Arnhem Transfer Hall which he is consulting on with BvB (which is in fact the frontispiece of the BvB article). I would peg this quote directly as a Balmond definition of intensity when he looks ahead to “New Territories”:
“When [the] connectivity is seamless... zones of confluence, aggregations, overlaps and bandwidths, become a new language for structure.”
Within the topic of “Texture, Fields, and Techniques,” BvB speaks of various infrastructures (not purely structural) by saying:
“Infrastructural layers may be classified, calculated, and tested individually, then interwoven to achieve both effective flux and effective interaction.”
The GL article “Geometry in Time” defines his attitude clearly when he discusses all that 3d modeling and animation tools bring to architecture:
“The linkages between these characteristics of time, topology, and parameters combine to establish the virtual possibilities for designing in animate rather than static space.”
We discussed PE in a lot of detail already, but for Rebstock his definition of intensity would be derived from his definition of the fold:
“By introducing the concept of the fold as a nondialectical third condition, one which is between figure and ground yet reconstitutes the nature of both, it is possible to refocus or reframe what already exists in any site.”
And finally for RT, who is simply interested in advancing a mathematical theory, implies elements of intensity by the way in which he derives the construction of his model:
“From a macroscopic examination of the morphogenesis of a process and a local and global study of its singularities, we can try to reconstruct the dynamic that generates it.”
All in all a similar theme is the need to define a new (pick one): language, interaction, possibility, concept, or dynamic. Intensity could be viewed or defined within the framework of any of the preceding terms as a result of the “new.”
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the new: ok, that's quite fair. But do you think new is novelt? or something else? In PE, its a kind of criticality, the possibility of thinking critical in relation to new forms of experience at the urban scale. I like the summary a lot. it is precise.
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