Differentiation is thus expressed in gradient threshold conditions rather than by a hard division between inside and outside.
Suggesting a more sustainable approach to architecture by shifting away from the homogenous and largely monofunctional material systems that make up the built environment today, and towards heterogeneous and multi-performance systems. The aim is to show how these systems can modulate and, in turn, be modulated by environmental conditions, and to suggest alternative spatial strategies based on gradient threshold conditions.
Modernist discourse postulated universal space as the key paradigm for democratic space. The open plan, ideally extended to an infinite homogenous grid, The preference for universal space brought with it the modularization of building elements and systems, as well as a homogenization of entire climates.
This single-objective approach to optimization is based on an understanding of efficiency that entails the minimum use of material and energy to fulfill one single task. A critical view yields the question of whether an alternative understanding of optimisation, efficiency and redundancy in relation to multi-performance material systems can facilitate a very different take on spatial organisation and environmental modulation. Architectural discourse in the last decades has largely moved away from universal space and declared a preference for heterogeneous architectures.
material and building systems are not being critically reviewed with respect to established types and their monofunctionality, as well as building-type-dependent interior climate requirements and uniform condition zoning. Architecture has thus largely remained ‘neufertised’.
Unfortunately, environmental design and engineering remains a question of post-design optimization rather than informing the design process from a very early stage. Moreover, a homogenized interior environment simply cannot satisfy the multiple and contrasting needs of its inhabitants.
The proposed approach to architectural design is based on the deliberate differentiation of material systems and assemblies beyond the established catalogue of types, on making them dissimilar or distinct in degree and across ranges. Varied ranges of material systems can provide for diverse spatial arrangements together with climatic intensities. This involves the deployment of the inherent behavioral characteristics and modulation capacities of building elements and systems, rather than a retrospective optimization process towards monofunctional efficiency. From this arises an understanding of efficiency as a dynamic characteristic of the effective, based on utilizing redundancy predominantly as latent capacity to perform a series of different tasks, rather than a safety measure.
Instrumentalising multiple-performance capacity requires an understanding of material elements and systems in a synergetic and integral manner. It considers these systems in terms of their behavioral characteristics and capacities with respect to the purpose they serve locally and within the behavioral economy of larger systems.
NOTO, MALLEMADUGULA
BIOMIMETICS: CR ASSULA PER FOR ATA
EMTECH
WEINSTOCK, HENSEL, MENGES, HEMBER G
Team: Matteo Noto, Sreedhar Mallem adugula
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This research involved the exploration of the computation in studying the behaviour of natural systems. The slender stem, the orientation of leaves, and the growth process at the tip of the plant Crassula Perforata are studied, modeled, and analysed. This entailed an inquiry into multiple-objective optimization processes employed by natural systems, including surface optimization, orientation towards sunlight and general structural optimization.
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