“having fun”digital art museum gh geometry_nss::.

gh spine_nss::.

gh_floral entities_parametric urbanism 001_nss::.

work in progress…I’ll keep you posted with the design process…

gh ornament_nss::.

gh magnetic field vs surface hair_nss::.

gh surface hair_nss::.

honeycomb like division_studies_nss::.

colony_studies_nss::.

aggregates_studies_nss::.

wavy surface_studies_nss::.

_apertures_media museum_work in progress_nss::.

 

a|nouveau aperture_extension of the existing mass of the Angewandte building_model_nss::.

ornament_studies_nss::.

wave porosity_ nss::.

“An elegant building should entail an elegant structure and both together should be able to spatialize considerable organizational complexity without descending into visual disorder. Like in natural systems, all forms are the result of lawfully interacting forces.” – Patrick Schumacher – Engineering Elegance

The first example is more about curvilinear tubes which function as a branching network, the number and the position of a branch in the hierarchy of branches from the outermost twig to the trunk, and the length of each branch, have a logarithmic relation.
The second example is based on the idea of formation process of radiolaria, which belong to the order of marine planktonic protozoa and feature a central protoplasm comprising a chitinous capsule and siliceous spicules that are perforated by pores. The porous mass of the cell encasements of radiolaria deliver an interesting model for differentiated texture in architecture that may feature a variety of specific performance capacities.
Each object is unique and consists of curvilinear surface (first example) or honeycomb (second example) like components. As a field, these components act collectively to express properties of porosity, color, and the interplay of light and shadow. This collection of properties generates a moment in a continuous state of change.  It can also absorb thermal energy and release it to the airflow enabled by the porosity, and the double curvature can be utilized for thermal exposure or self-shading. 

 

  

threshold concept_urban space_ nss::.

 

Studying new ways of representing a site and searching for shaping concepts suitable for that area, some disclosing relations between architecture and landscape that are normally overlooked begin to emerge: Reciprocity/Materiality/Threshold/Insertion/Infrastructure. All represent alternative ways of looking at the construction and representations of relationships between architecture and landscape.

The 5 operations explored here, each challenge disciplinary percepts that have served to maintain a rigid dichotomy between architecture and landscape architecture. Thus, reciprocity stands against hierarchy, and ordering principle through which architecture has historically subjugated landscape; materiality challenges an aesthetic tradition of disembodied contemplation; threshold precludes a fixed and static conception of boundary; insertion calls into question a figure/ground formulation of the city; and infrastructure critiques an assumption of landscape as originally ground. Each operation functions at several levels within a project, including its practical activity-the “nuts and bolts”-and also becoming its representational content: for instance, both constructing and representing reciprocity.

The five operations are not static, preexisting categories that a project must fit, nor do they prescribe particular criteria that projects need to fulfill. They become legible and acquire substance through the interpretation of projects, each of which builds a small piece of their conceptual framework. Each of the five initiates an alternative way of looking. Each one leads in a different direction , they present opportunities for design outside the scope of conventional discourse.