mutations and aging
Our buildings are working similar to the trees. They grow from their foundations during the construction phase and later they mutate most of the times starting from their interiors.
The projection of the architect for the paths of walking, use of space are almost always changed by the user.
In time all buildings have to get painted, renovated and re-designed.
To cope with all this unpredictable needs, metabolism suggested some parts of our buildings to be stable while others wear out and get replaced.
There is an important the reality we always ignore, all attempts to deal with the inflexibility is taking its roots from the top-down design development.
Architect starts the design from the street level, makes a decision about the envelope, facade and later finds strategies for the lifts and stairs.
For a residential tower, starting from the smallest unit and reaching to the main infrastructure of the city is my strategy.
This is an exact immitation of how a plant grows.
A seed branches inside the soil and by collecting the minerals it needs becomes tree.
With the current scientific understanding and tools we have, a building can not be a tree, It can not grow by itself and react to its environment to provide the best conditions for living.
However, developing a project from the smallest unit towards the larger organization, a strategy can be mapped out for the rates of changes a building goes through in its lifetime.
Regardless the worry of its final form, this strategy will be constantly informed by the site and will be developed through a step by step evolution.
The research will focus on the rates of change at different times of a day, the programmatic
lifetime and circulation rates related to these.
Towards a anti-capsule system:
This system seems to do the same thing with the capsules.
Although it's not a capsule plug-in system, the building can do more than providing these constrained spaces.
Going back to the first plan,
An overall principle can be brought back to the project: which is about division of a slab building into three different rates of change: slower, transitional, faster.
To tackle the cellular space problem defining the Reverse Metabolism is necessary.
The projection of the architect for the paths of walking, use of space are almost always changed by the user.
In time all buildings have to get painted, renovated and re-designed.
To cope with all this unpredictable needs, metabolism suggested some parts of our buildings to be stable while others wear out and get replaced.
There is an important the reality we always ignore, all attempts to deal with the inflexibility is taking its roots from the top-down design development.
Architect starts the design from the street level, makes a decision about the envelope, facade and later finds strategies for the lifts and stairs.
For a residential tower, starting from the smallest unit and reaching to the main infrastructure of the city is my strategy.
This is an exact immitation of how a plant grows.
A seed branches inside the soil and by collecting the minerals it needs becomes tree.
With the current scientific understanding and tools we have, a building can not be a tree, It can not grow by itself and react to its environment to provide the best conditions for living.
However, developing a project from the smallest unit towards the larger organization, a strategy can be mapped out for the rates of changes a building goes through in its lifetime.
Regardless the worry of its final form, this strategy will be constantly informed by the site and will be developed through a step by step evolution.
The research will focus on the rates of change at different times of a day, the programmatic
lifetime and circulation rates related to these.
Towards a anti-capsule system:
This system seems to do the same thing with the capsules.
Although it's not a capsule plug-in system, the building can do more than providing these constrained spaces.
Going back to the first plan,
An overall principle can be brought back to the project: which is about division of a slab building into three different rates of change: slower, transitional, faster.
To tackle the cellular space problem defining the Reverse Metabolism is necessary.
