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

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.

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.

“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 

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.

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.

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