The soap bubble: experimental and digital study of minimal surfaces

Authors

  • María del Pilar Salazar Lozano Universidad de Navarra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3555-2476
  • Fernando Manuel Alonso Pedrero Universidad de Navarra
  • Pilar Morán García Universidad Internacional de Cataluña

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2024.13241

Keywords:

minimal surfaces, learning through experience, programming, polyhedral

Abstract

This article presents an exercise carried out with first-year Architecture students focused on a complex geometric shape: minimal surfaces. It explains the development of the exercises, which combine mathematical and geometric knowledge with hands-on experimentation and the creative application of what has been studied. In this case, soap bubbles, created with a soapy solution, are used to gain an intuitive understanding of minimal surfaces. At the same time, it takes the opportunity to join the debate on the use of manual, digital, and three-dimensional graphic tools in the early education of an architecture student.

Author Biographies

María del Pilar Salazar Lozano, Universidad de Navarra

María del Pilar Salazar Lozano. Architect by the University of Navarra (2014) and PhD Arch (2018) with a thesis about the architectural relations between USA and Spain in the 50s. She has been Visiting Researcher in the École Polythecnique Fédèral de Lausanne (Switzerland) and the Illinois Institute of Technology (USA). She is professor in courses about Graphical Expression in the Degrees of Architecture and Design in the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra. She researches both in History of Architecture and about the digitization of architecture. She has published the results of her researchers in some of the main journals in the field.

Fernando Manuel Alonso Pedrero, Universidad de Navarra

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Universidad de Navarra

Pilar Morán García, Universidad Internacional de Cataluña

Pilar Morán García.  (Arch. 2018; PhD, 2023. ORCID ID:0000-0002-0639-7331). Architect by the University of Navarra and Lecturer in Architectural History and Graphic Expression at the UIC (International University of Catalonia, Barcelona)School of Architecture (2023-). Phd in Architecture at the University of Navarra with the Thesis entitled “Images of Architecture for the Great Public: from Illustrated Weekly Newspapers to Postcards. Spain, 1870 – 1905”.  During the development of my doctoral studies, I collaborated as an assistant professor in the courses Geometry and Form Laboratory (I and II) ( 2020-2023) and Contemporary Art and Architecture ( 2020-2022) of the Architecture Degree at the same university. My current research focuses on the representation and dissemination of architecture in the print media, mainly in general-interest magazines and postcards in nineteenth-century Spain. I am also interested in the intersections between the professional and the public sphere, and the representation of architecture in both realms. My recent works include the article “An Architectural Tour on a Page: Image Compositions from La Ilustración Española y Americana (1869-1905)” (EGA,2023) DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/ega.2023.17368

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Published

2024-11-08

Issue

JIDA'24

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PAPERS