Confluences, The Design and Realization of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall
Through interactive exploration with this CD-ROM and Book, gain insight into the multi-layered complexities and influences that came together to create a world-class natural-acoustics symphony hall for the LA Philharmonic, and a stunning international landmark building for the city of Los Angeles.
The CD-ROM
This highly interactive CD-ROM allows you to chart your own path through the richness of Frank Gehry's design process, and to discover what went into the making of the Walt Disney Concert Hall Project. Through an organic and intuitive navigational interface, it provides a unique opportunity to explore the complexity and the layers of challenges and influences that came together over the fifteen-year course of the design and realization of the concert hall.
The engaging "node-navigator" user interface allows you to explore the depth of the content, while revealing the nature of the inter-connections between the four primary themes:
The Design Process offers an in-depth look at Gehry’s own design process, and offers insight into how computer technologies were appropriated from the aerospace industries and applied to the designing of Gehry’s forms.
The Acoustics allows you to understand the basic principles of concert hall acoustics through interactive audio experiments, and see how Gehry’s commitment to the acoustics of the Concert Hall influenced the design process and final design solutions.
The Surfaces allows user’s to gain basic insight into the design of surfaces and the principles of materials behavior, and see how Gehry and his team exploit computer technologies and the modeling of virtual materials, to build his amazing forms in a cost-effective way.
The Building presents an opportunity to explore all the building elements and gardens of the completed concert hall, and see haw it all fits together.
The CD-ROM contains numerous video interviews with Frank Gehry and the concert hall design team, a narrated inside-look at the computer models used in the design and interactive experiments to explore audio principles. The CD-ROM also contains numerous weblinks so that you can pursue your explorations further with additional in-depth content and resources, available on the web.
The Book
The Book provides stunning images of the building, a complete map of all the sections and themes of the CD-ROM and their inter-connections, in-depth help and instructions on how to navigate with the CD content using the "node-navigator", how to take guided tours, and how to use additional features like the interactive map to track where you’ve been and jump between nodes.
Minimum System Requirements
PC
Hardware: Pentium III 800, or better. 128 Mb RAM
OS: Windows 98, 2000, NT, ME, XP
Mac
Hardware: PowerPC G3 or better. 128 Mb RAM
OS: OSX, OS 9.2.2
Software:
QuickTime 6 (included)
Optional:
For optimal performance, copy the CD to the hard drive – 330 Mb disc space required.
Internet connection and Web browser required for exploring weblinks.
