Architectural Models in context: creativity, skill and spectacle

该网络的中心主题是研究建筑模型在创作过程中的作用，考虑建筑模型如何让公众参与关键的建筑和设计问题，并探索如何利用3D建模和成像的数字技术来展示和解释它们。网络将重点关注西方传统，从近代早期到当代。它将成为设计和建造一个虚拟建筑模型博物馆的主要项目的第一阶段。该网络与建筑协会（AA）、RIBA、John Soane爵士博物馆、建筑博物馆、Technische Universität慕尼黑、MAP实验室、CNRS和索邦大学合作，将用户、想法和对象连接起来，以促进和支持模型在学术研究和公共展示中的使用。它将汇集建筑模型方面的专家；识别架构模型上的资源；并分享为非专业观众解释架构模型的经验。这样做，它将促进知识转移，确定知识差距，并为未来的合作奠定基础。该网络将增加专家的了解，这反过来又将为专业人员与之互动的各种公众受众带来好处。背景：架构模型在整个设计过程中使用。它们包括概念模型、构造模型、1:1模型和演示模型。尽管建筑模型与其他3D表示有很多共同之处，但表示建筑物的复杂性，永久性建筑的公共影响以及特定的规模问题将它们区分开来。就像建筑图纸一样，它们的意义在于它们是思考和交流的工具；它们有助于让不可见的设计过程变得可见，它们记录了原本短暂的交流时刻。然而，与2D描绘不同的是，它们直接传达了建筑的3D品质，自文艺复兴以来，它们一直被视为最容易理解的建筑表现形式。然而，尽管建筑模型的相关性得到了许多不同的研究和实践群体的认可：使用它们的学生、建筑师和设计师；建造它们的模型制作者；负责保管、展示和诠释这些艺术品的策展人；维护它们的管理员；而研究它们的学者们，到目前为止，还没有知识交流的论坛；也没有一个全面的、可搜索的资源来列出或试图列出存放这些藏品的机构。这个项目是及时的，原因有很多。博物馆对他们的模型收藏表现出了新的兴趣；数字建模和3D打印使模型生成的方式多样化，增加了它们在创意领域的发生率；3D扫描的发展提供了访问存储对象的新模式（通常是模型）。最后，在前所未有的城市扩张时期，许多博物馆将建筑作为公众教育和参与的关键领域，并寻求创新的方式在博物馆内展示建筑。现在正是利用这一势头的理想时刻。三个专业研讨会将汇集使用模型的不同群体：学者、建筑系学生和从业者、策展人和博物馆教育工作者。工作坊将着重于具体案例研究的论文，以及模型制作环节，以鼓励对具体知识的理解和实践思维。内容将在网上以及通过学术出版物传播。每个工作坊将聚焦于一个特定的问题：什么是架构模型？车间2。我们如何制作和使用架构模型？车间3。我们如何解释架构模型？

The proposed Network's central theme is to examine the role of architectural models within the creative process, consider ways in which architectural models can engage public audiences with key architectural and design issues, and explore how digital technologies for 3D modelling and imaging can be utilised in their display and interpretation. The Network will focus on the western tradition, from the early modern period to the contemporary. It will form the first phase of a major project to design and build a virtual museum of architectural models.In partnership with the Architectural Association (AA), RIBA, and the Sir John Soane's Museum, the Architekturmuseum, Technische Universität Munich, the MAP Laboratory, CNRS and Sorbonne, this network will connect users, ideas and objects in order to promote and support the use of models in academic research and public display. It will bring together experts on architectural models; identify resources on architectural models; and share experience of interpreting architectural models for non-expert audiences. In so doing, it will facilitate knowledge transfer, identify knowledge gaps, and lay the groundwork for future collaborations. The network will increase expert understanding which in turn will generate benefits for the various public audiences with which the professionals interact.Context:Architectural models are used throughout the design process. They include concept models, construction models, 1:1 models and presentation models. Although architectural models have much in common with other 3D representations, the complexity of representing a building, the public impact of permanent construction and specific questions of scale set them apart. Like architectural drawings, their significance is that they are tools for thought and communication; they help to make invisible design processes visible and they document moments of communication that are otherwise ephemeral. Unlike 2D depictions, however, they directly convey the embodied 3D qualities of a building and have, since the Renaissance, been seen as the most comprehensible form of architectural representation. Yet whilst the relevance of architectural models is acknowledged by a number of different research and practice-based constituencies: students, architects and designers who use them; model-makers who construct them; curators who look after, display and interpret them; conservators who maintain them; and academics who research them, to date, no forum for knowledge exchange exists; nor is there a comprehensive, searchable resource that lists or attempts to list the institutions in which such collections are housed.This project is timely for a number of reasons. Museums are showing a renewed interest in their model collections; digital modelling and 3D printing are diversifying the way that models can be generated, increasing their incidence in the creative field; and developments in 3D scanning are offering new modes of access to objects in storage (which models typically are). Finally, in a period of unprecedented urban expansion, many museums are prioritising architecture as a key area for public education and engagement and seeking innovative ways to display architecture within museum walls. Now is the ideal moment to harness this momentum.Three specialist workshops will bring together the different constituencies that use models: academics, architectural students and practitioners, curators and museum educators. The workshops will feature papers focusing on concrete case studies as well as model-making sessions to encourage understanding of embodied knowledge and practical thinking. Content will be disseminated online as well as through a scholarly publication. Each workshop will focus on a specific question:Workshop 1. What is an architectural model?Workshop 2. How do we make and use architectural models?Workshop 3. How do we interpret architectural models?