the invisible

The realm of the visible and invisible are constant preoccupations in architecture, both worlds are present in the process of spatial transformation and a new way of achieve them could be extracted by means of the simulation based computer imagery.

From the invisible architecture of Koolhaas very first project, whose insight of "Berlin Wall as architecture, 1970" was presented as the " revelation in architecture of how absence can be stronger than presence", to his invisible cities in "Mutations" until the strange invisibility of the old continent that is reflected in the project "the image of Europe, 2000". The insistence of Rem Koolhaas to reveal or emphasise the invisible has been present throughout his carrier. From Hans Ulrich Obrist conversation with Rem Koolhaas, Bonn 2006


"our interest in the invisible world stems from a desire to find a form for it in the visible one, which means to prise open, to decompose, to atomize the deceptively familiar, the visible exterior appearance, before we can deal with it again...we are interested in hidden geometry of nature, in an intellectual principle, and not primarily in the external appearance of nature" Jacques Herzog and Pierre DeMeuron description of their architectural enterprise in the Pritzker price speech 2001.

"Could there be anything more natural than to start with the visible form and then gradually to penetrate into the realm of the invisible? The architect must be able to manipulate the invisible so as to render reality visible, but also capable of seeing reality in order to change it" – Franz Oswald,Foreword to Pierre von Meiss in "Elements of Architecture:From form to place Lausanne" 1991

"One of the possibilities of the computer simulation: is this not precisely the inverted path toward knowledge harbored by computer simulation? To begin in the realm of the non-visible, advancing painstakingly towards the structure of the visible?" Andre Gleiniger and Georg Vrachliotis

From SIMULATION – PRESENTATION TECHNIQUE AND COGNITIVE METHOD
Andre Gleiniger and Georg Vrachliotis