SHELTER FOR DISPLACED
23 March 2012

Journey from South America to United States of America needs a lot of determination from a person to run it despite obstacles. There is nothing that can protect them from hunger and violence, all they have is hope. They travel in the shade to avoid danger. Above all, they need to rest and feel save. It is not about fences and walls but consciousness that they are not alone but there is whole community of people like them.

STABILITY OF CHANGE #3 // EXTENDED MIND
18 March 2012

Mammalian brains, as all other dynamic systems, are capable of producing embodiments that stands in direct relation with the way in which system itself operates. Neural structure and cortex functional organisation are first and most straight forward outcomes of an information handling processes. Second group of embodiments can be defined by all physical and informational artifacts developed via our mental capabilities. While similarity in the emergence process of previously discussed systems (matter self-organisation, river morphologies, embryos development etc. ) and mentioned neural structure of the brain is obvious - second group of interest requires closer attention to be understood as driven by the same general principles.

 

BETULA HOUSE // DESIGN
15 January 2012

Single family house proposal from CollectiveArchitects. Location: Poland Total Area: 180m2 Investor: Private

betula, house
RIVER-BANK GREEN SCHOOL PAVILIONS
12 January 2012

Vistula is a main and the the same time biggest Polish river. Despite the fact, that its crossing through main Polish cities, its banks are constituted mainly by natural and virgin environment. This rare phenomenon creates as much potential as controversies across all involved institutions discourse. Contrasting ides for facilitating rivers potential, both those preservative and liberal, consequently reaches the narrow throat of over formalized official procedure. Presented design is a proposition of fragmented and non-invasive architectural intervention at the Vistula’s river bank.

 

STABILITY OF CHANGE #2 // ENDEAVOUR FOR LIFE
18 March 2012

Relations between forms and the environment are already significant enough when discussing systems, like river morphologies or proto-organic bacteria organisms. Still, much more extended picture is being drawn by the emergence and evolution of living organisms in relation to their environment. It is already at the level of embryological development that relation between characteristic geometrical patterns and cell specialisation is being established in relation to growth environment. There is a strong mutual and complementary relation between information encoded in organism DNA and its virtual potential of being shaped due to external constrains. DNA acts as a set of functions, whose arguments are being dynamically generated along the process of its execution. Genes contains precise but flexible instructions, the execution of which cannot be achieved aside laws of physics and mathematical principles arising from the environment.

SHELTER FOR THE DISPLACED // ARQUINE COMPETITION
24 December 2011

 Collective Architects is attending another competition. This time we were fascinated by Arquine Shelter for the Displaced idea. Read more on organisers website.

DISASTER PREVENTION CENTRE // COMPETITION ENTRY
30 November 2011

Higher order can be achieved and controlled only due to experience, knowledge, and facilitation. While many forces that drives natural disasters are still beyond our command, it is our duty to respect then, to learn about them and to present their both dark and bright site! Facilitation and distribution of these knowledge requires safe space, the boundary or metaphorical wall to understand how chaos is pre-state of order, and that our civilization is not so different from 4 natural basic elements and their behavior. In the end we are the part of a whole, but to understand this we need to go from chaos, through understanding into appreciation. Then we can reach aether, 5th element that unites all the others.

URBAN EROSION // RESEARCH
18 November 2011

 Initial experiment in using SWARM intelligence to negotiate a public traffic space in a dense urban grid.

MATTER IN MOTION // FORM FINDING
15 November 2011

“Animation is a term that differs form, but is often confused with motion. While motion implies movement and action, animation implies the evolution of form and its shaping forces; it suggests animalism, animism, growth, actuation, vitality and virtuality. In its manifold implications, animation touches on many of architecture;s most deeply embedded assumptions about its structure. What makes animation so problematic for architecture is that they have maintained an ethnics of statics in their discipline. Because of its dedication to performance, architecture is one of the last modes of thought based on the inert. More than ever its traditional role of providing shelter, architects are expected to provide culture with stasis. This desire for timelessness is intimately linked with interests in formal purity and autonomy. Challenging these assumptions by introducing architecture to models of organization that are not inert will not threaten the essence of discipline, but will advance it.” 

Greg Lynn 

STABILITY OF CHANGE #1 // GENESIS OF FORM
18 March 2012

Driven by the principles of self-organization, energy (here equals matter, equals information), begins to express new organizational and special qualities. Along the way of system growth, new levels of complexity and emergent behaviors are being build up on top of each other. Proprieties from the lower level of organization, while still present in a higher level, generates new emergent qualities. Every form has its genesis at the lowest level, but its evolution has a double articulation character. It is described by linear energy flow increase facilitated by non linear events, that redefines the primer organizational principles of the system, at the thresholds levels of its efficiency.

OPENING THE TOWER! OPENING THE MIND? // NEWS
5 November 2011

OPENING THE TOWER! - Exhibition of Eurohight design studio by The Why Factory. Prof. Winy Maas, Alexander Sverdlov and Ania Molenda in collaboration with KRADS and support from Lego and Arup.

DEMANDING SCHOOL // PUBLIC BUILDING
2 November 2011

School buildings are shaped depending on different attitudes towards children education. What is common to most of them are vivid colors, impulses, complicated forms, used to stimulate pupils imagination and open their minds to different factors. But what if all those determinants don’t work as expected but distract students, because pupils are mentally retarded. Building for those children should be based on simple, commonly known phenomenons that could demonstrate, visualize situations or problems that they are learning about.  

ENVIRONMENTAL OPTIMISATION WITH GECO //LAB
9 October 2011

Environmental optimization exploration. Random structure was analyzed due to the solar exposure efficiency reviling non-linear relation between rotation angle of the hexagonal panels and their energy possessing efficiency.

GENERATIVE MU(SIC) WITH MAX/MSP
9 October 2011

 Generative music patch created with MAX MSP environment. Sript converts mouse coordinates and movement velocity onto midi sound scale.

GRASSHOPPER SCRIPTED COMPONENTS VB.NET
10 October 2011

Set of 3 vb.net components for grasshopper - Waver - CurveMerge - ProbabilityReduce. Free to download. Enjoy.

CULTURE CENTRE VISUALISATION SET
20 August 2011

Culture centre interior visualisation set.