Nodal Networks
November 4, 2002
AOP in Academic GSAPP, Architecture

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Starting with medical tube diagrams, a organizational model was created by the process of applying pins or constraints to a network.  Accupuncture became a theoretical model, utilizing local pressure points to create maximum effects on the structure.  Eventually, nodal networks were developed at both the macro scale (the urban scale) and the micro scale (a structural pavilion prototype) to create a series of programmatic follies at Columbus Circle in New York City. 

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