期刊名称：Multi: The RIT Journal of Pluarlity and Diversity in Design
印刷版ISSN：1942-3527
出版年度：2009
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Design, College of Imaging Arts & Sciences
摘要：There is precedence for successful collaboration between architects and graphic designers. However the final result of this relationship is typically a building where each discipline partners to create complimentary work strictly within their specific silos of knowledge. The architect will serve as key stakeholder and design the building while the graphic designer plays a supporting role and apply the color palette, textiles and wayfinding. Rem Koolhaas has been active in this interdisciplinary work, combining efforts with Petra Blaisse adding graphics to textiles in the Dutch Embassy in Berlin and most notably working with the New York graphic design firm 2x4. Koolhaas and 2x4 partnered to design the 2003 Illinois Institute of Technology’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center. The final structure, designed for the students was also influenced by nearby Mies buildings and by student traffic flows on campus. The Campus Center includes task-specific use areas and showcases a variety of textured surfaces, colors, lighting, prolific iconography, and integrated typography (from the graphic designer). When describing the final design solution, Koolhaas wrote:
“To capture the sum of the student flows, the web of lines that connect the eastern and western campus destinations are organised through the campus centre to differentiate activities into streets, plazas and urban islands. Without fragmenting the overall building, each part is articulated according to its specific needs and positioned to create neighbourhoods (24-hour, commercial, entertainment, academic, utilitarian), parks and other urban elements in miniature.”
As useful and aesthetic as the Campus Center was in its completion, could such an interdisciplinary partnership result in a totally different outcome? In order to advance the trajectory of each individual discipline, could the architect and graphic designer instead create a solution not showcasing an artifact recognizable specifically to each discipline? Should not this interdisciplinary venture result in a new exploration instead of a building or a book? This Article explores a collaboration that attempts to address that question between architect Lois Weinthal (Director of the BFA Interior Design Program at Parsons The New School for Design and Associate Professor at the University of Texas), graphic designer/Assistant Professor Eric Benson (University of Illinois) and graphic design undergraduate student Maia Lewis (University of Illinois). This project, entitled FLYSPACE is the continuation of a previous collaboration between architects and product designers published in the May 2007 journal On/Site. The second phase of this project focused on using only environmentally sensitive materials (industrial felt, recycled steel, & organic cotton) while tasking each discipline involved to explore their own identity in relation to patterns and structure (with an emphasis on the wearable and domestic).
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