Drawing and Notation
Bernard Tschumi : The Manhattan Transcript
Evelyn Steiner 2015, An Interview with Bernard Tschumi, UNCUBE, viewed 22 April 2018, http://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/15708387.
Bernard Tschumi is a brilliant architect that was born in Lausanne in 1944. Tschumi has two nationalities which are Swiss and French but worked in New York. His first focused on his career was architecture criticism and issues and followed by a multidisciplinary approach. This is the time when three of his essays come out which are Manifestoes in 1978, The Manhattan Transcript in 1981 and Architecture and Disjunction in 1994.Tschumi won one of the best deconstructionist architectural projects competition with those essays.
Evelyn Steiner 2015, An Interview with Bernard Tschumi, UNCUBE, viewed 22 April 2018, http://www.uncubemagazine.com/blog/15708387.
Bernard Tschumi describes himself as a ‘work-in-progress’ and The Manhattan Transcript is an essay which explains that there will be no architecture is there is no event, program or violence. In short, no architecture without something happen first. In every single drawing from Bernard Tschumi, people can see how he can articulate the explorations between people, things and their involvement with space and the happening events. Tschumi applies the transcript in order to make sense of an architectural reality that mixing the sequences, movement and also functionality.
Bernard Tschumi always using different mediums depends on the events and the functions of spaces. The main interest of The Manhattan Transcript is the real involvement of the existing events. Tschumi using human physicality, actions and movements as devices to interpret space, it assesses space, movement and events. A simply quotes from Bernard Tschumi which is ‘Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action and what happens in space’.
Since ‘The Manhattan Transcript’ is such a marvelous one from all, there are many people using his skill as an inspiration and one of them is Felix Paitimusa. Paitimusa created a sketch by using ‘The Manhattan Transcript’ as his inspirations since it is such an interesting idea. At first, Paitimusa took a video clip of the movement from car and people on the road in front of the Blue Building UTS Insearch. Then, Paitimusa screenshot some scene to transcript it becomes a sketch of a diagram. After making a diagram from the video, he changes it to a 3D blocks and also adds meanings to it. in the fourth step, he changes the blocks to a path in a building and also adds rooms. for the last step, Paitimusa makes the rooms look invisible and relieve a room and make it become a blank space to make it look more modern and not crowded.
Process work:
At first, I was confused because all I know from the research was Bernard Tschumi use the human movement for his sketch, that is why in figure 1 and 2 I only take the movement of a snake and people crossing the road without thinking about the meaning from it. In the next week, as I took feedbacks from my tutor, I started to understand and tried to start applying the Manhattan Transcript way in my sketch (figure 3). I also tried to add more meaning to the next sketch as my tutor told me to add meaning to it so the sketch could be more dynamic. Then I add arrows following the movement from cars and people crossing the road like in figure 4. The last step which you can see in figure 5, I copied my sketch and cut it so I can get a precise scale one to another.
Reference List :
- Tschumi, B. 1994, Academy Editions, The Manhattan Transcript, 2nd edn, Academy Editions, New York.
- unknown n.d., The Manhattan Transcript, Bernard Tschumi Architects, viewed 22 April 2018, http://www.tschumi.com/projects/18/.
- unknown n.d., REVIEW: Bernard Tschumi; The Manhattan Transcripts, viewed 22 April 2018, https://thelandscape.org/2014/09/08/bernard-tschumi-the-manhattan-transcripts/.