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the tower has a skeleton and stable parts, shown in red on this drawing.
the skeleton is also serving as circulation.
in this drawing the shared / maximum neighbourhood space in the tower is shown in gray. however my aim is to have a broken shared space instead of a giant atrium / courtyard condition.
The building will work similar to the London Underground.
This is a representation I created by overlaying the maps of LU since 1933 until 2009.
Architect designs the edge
and the user occupies the space through accumulation around this edge.
The subconscious assumption of the architect for himself being the person who can direct, foresee the ideal way of inhabitation is an illusion.
Acceptance of the impermanency of the space is crucial even more with the economical instability of the world.
Telling people how to use the space is not the definition of the architect's job.
Technique: Elemination of Surfaces (Sides)
Using the first cellular model
by eleminating the side walls certain shared spaces occur.
Different rates of changes can be assigned to each strip and the tension created between these spaces can be experimented.
Also the surface doeesn't have to be either a ceiling or floor it can be integrated into the circulation system and vertical structure at different points.
What is Reverse Metabolism?
The departure point of the metabolists is kept: the idea of certain parts of the building remaining in time while others change, get replaced.
Reverse metabolism is also about understanding the different rates of change in a building or part of city so if one part breaksdown, one doesn't have to destroy a whole every time one part breaks down just like the mebabolists' concern.
But only the methodology is in reverse.
Instead of proposing prefabricated and standardized living spaces, reverse metabolism suggests over customized personal space and deals with the potentials the battle between these personal spaces can create.
dictionary for metabolism
plug-in: metabolists propose standardized and pre-fabricated pods for living. these replacable pods are to be plugged into an overall stable structure.
mega-structure: the overall structure, the hard, inflexible layer of the metabolist building
capsule: mass-produced enclosed element in metabolist architecture
dictionary for reverse metabolism
plug-out: in reverse metabolism there's still a seperation between the stable and mutating parts of the building. instead of adding onto a structure, reverse metabolism is interested in removal of the unnecessary.
micro-structure: is the principle that allows the "seed" to grow in certain ways.
tissue: a shared ownership for surfaces in reverse metabolism
The departure point of the metabolists is kept: the idea of certain parts of the building remaining in time while others change, get replaced.
Reverse metabolism is also about understanding the different rates of change in a building or part of city so if one part breaksdown, one doesn't have to destroy a whole every time one part breaks down just like the mebabolists' concern.
But only the methodology is in reverse.
Instead of proposing prefabricated and standardized living spaces, reverse metabolism suggests over customized personal space and deals with the potentials the battle between these personal spaces can create.
dictionary for metabolism
plug-in: metabolists propose standardized and pre-fabricated pods for living. these replacable pods are to be plugged into an overall stable structure.
mega-structure: the overall structure, the hard, inflexible layer of the metabolist building
capsule: mass-produced enclosed element in metabolist architecture
plug-out: in reverse metabolism there's still a seperation between the stable and mutating parts of the building. instead of adding onto a structure, reverse metabolism is interested in removal of the unnecessary.
micro-structure: is the principle that allows the "seed" to grow in certain ways.
tissue: a shared ownership for surfaces in reverse metabolism
Building: Cell < Tissue < Organ < System
connecting the units
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.
