STABILITY OF CHANGE #4 // METASTABLE ARCHITECTURE
1 March 2013

Looking at the aspects of matter self organization, life emergence, evolution, and its extended aspects provided by neuroplasticity of our brains, we begin to see how natural architectures operates. They provide efficient embodiments for energy flow, tracing and redefining system qualities in time. They evolve throughout the trial and error process, providing intensive species heterogeneity. They create flexible solutions, adjustable and sensitive to the environment factors. They are emergent, repetitive, and adaptive across various times scales.

STABILITY OF CHANGE #2 // ENDEAVOUR FOR LIFE
17 December 2012

Relations between forms and the environment are already significant enough when discussing systems, like river morphologies or proto-organic bacteria organisms. Still, much more extended picture is being drawn by the emergence and evolution of living organisms in relation to their environment. It is already at the level of embryological development that relation between characteristic geometrical patterns and cell specialisation is being established in relation to growth environment. There is a strong mutual and complementary relation between information encoded in organism DNA and its virtual potential of being shaped due to external constrains. DNA acts as a set of functions, whose arguments are being dynamically generated along the process of its execution. Genes contains precise but flexible instructions, the execution of which cannot be achieved aside laws of physics and mathematical principles arising from the environment.

STABILITY OF CHANGE #1 // GENESIS OF FORM
17 December 2012

Driven by the principles of self-organization, energy (here equals matter, equals information), begins to express new organizational and special qualities. Along the way of system growth, new levels of complexity and emergent behaviors are being build up on top of each other. Proprieties from the lower level of organization, while still present in a higher level, generates new emergent qualities. Every form has its genesis at the lowest level, but its evolution has a double articulation character. It is described by linear energy flow increase facilitated by non linear events, that redefines the primer organizational principles of the system, at the thresholds levels of its efficiency.

STABILITY OF CHANGE #3 // EXTENDED MIND
18 March 2012

Mammalian brains, as all other dynamic systems, are capable of producing embodiments that stands in direct relation with the way in which system itself operates. Neural structure and cortex functional organisation are first and most straight forward outcomes of an information handling processes. Second group of embodiments can be defined by all physical and informational artifacts developed via our mental capabilities. While similarity in the emergence process of previously discussed systems (matter self-organisation, river morphologies, embryos development etc. ) and mentioned neural structure of the brain is obvious - second group of interest requires closer attention to be understood as driven by the same general principles.

 

INTEGRATED SYSTEM SOLUTIONS // ARTICLE
28 July 2011

 “God Is In The Details”. This sentence said many years ago by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is not only still up-to-date, but, taking into account directions defined by new technologies, that are constantly influencing and extending domain of architectural design, we might say that this mythical aspect of perfectionism hidden within detail design, developed into much more polytheistic religion. Nevertheless, architecture is not facing this fact alone. In contrary, being considered as a one of those disciplines, that are evolution very slowly, feeding itself onto other hard-science based disciplines and industries, it need to be considered as one of many, being under influence of global changes. Looking at fast developing areas of human interest, such as computer science or car-industry, we can observe processing components integration, necessary to achieve better performance and economical efficiency over the products. Integrated solutions are becoming necessarily aspect of all disciplines, and architecture will naturally follow those, trying to propose even more personalized and integrated solutions within domain of building science.

SERPENTINE PAVILION // CASE STUDY
19 April 2011

A pavilion which has the quality of being a time capsule and denying hard skin, just a couple of terms Toyo Ito uses to describe his pavilion. But how does this relate to the volume/space, how do we experience this ‘time capsule’.  To give an answer to these rising questions we will give an explanation on the different aspects of the pavilion.