In the living world, pattern formation seems both to constrain adaptive change and to offer new adaptive opportunities . . . The technological and aesthetic possibilities of spontaneous pattern formation, for example in material sciences, architecture and the production of structurally and dynamically complex chemical systems, is only just beginning to be explored. Philip Ball, ‘Pattern Formation in Nature’, p. …
Codes in the clouds III – 2012AI Maribor Venice Biennale
TOPIC CITC III has been invited by the Slovenian curating team of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 and to join 2112AI for Maribor, the European Capital of Culture 2012 located in Slovenia. Maribor, a small city in the north-east of Slovenia with approximately 120.000 inhabitants between the mountains and the river Drava, has a vibrant cultural history whereas it belonged …
CITC III – Stigmergic Scape
Codes in the clouds – Dessau international graduate architecture school StigMergic Scape by Ali Farhan StigMergic Scape suggests a future conception of space as difference-reality, where the boundary of virtual and physical blends. It describes an argument to construct and rethink architectural spatial logic. Future residential and economic concerns are focused on to define the city scape as generic growth …
Physical Computing I
PHYSICAL COMPUTING I This course focuses on the interface between inside and outside. The class explores surface and the space of surface in architectural terms and is looking for solutions of high performance in an age beyond simple building automation. We are investigating into the subject of the body and its environment and research parallels between nature and buildings, between …