Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entangleme…Descrição completa
Morpho-Ecologies Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
+ Ecology - is the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment . which also suits the discipline of architecture.
+ The ME approach - requires a critical rethinking of all central aspects of architectural practice today. : The challenge is to formulate a synthesized approach based on a synergetic relation dynamics . between material thresholds and environmental dynamics.
+ problem of today’s architecture - While plan organization, envelope form, and fittings and finishes may have become more varied, material and building systems are not being critically reviewed. Today’s architecture has standardized building sys tem with substantial st ructure that defines hard environmental division. division. The performance of a building unfolds in time and must therefore be analyzed perpetually.
Morpho-Ecologies Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
‘fibrous surfaces’, self interlocking structure
+Material Practice of Architecture
-the intricate relations of morphology of morphology and environment -challenges the traditional relations of space and material as well as the common processes of optimization that empasise the most efficient performance of a single function for the least amount of material. Natural systems provide a new conceptual model for these design experiments. ex) the tubes of plant tissues - transport fluids and nutrients up and down the stem also provide structural support, also manage the changes in compressive or tension forces in neighbouring tissues. -Multiple functions are integrated into natural material systems, which are complex hierarchical arrangements of hierarchical arrangements of material is an important strategy for efficient adaptability.
Morpho-Ecologies Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
+How form emerges and how it continually differentiates, transforms and performs in relation to its specific environment?
-Understanding of material systems as generative drivers in the design process : development of material system is informed by scale and size specific behavior and related performance capacities. -Multiple-performance capacity: need to understand their behavioral characteristics and capacities with respect to the purpose they serve both locally and within the behavioral economy of a larger system. -Learn from connections and transitions between systems and sub-systems of biological entities. -shift away from a unit-based design approach -> condition-based design program as design-defining -> design as program-evolving
Morpho-Ecologies Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
+relationship of materialization and biology
-the aim is to understand processes that unfold morphological complexity and performative capacity from capacity from simple constituents without differentiating between formation and materialization -cellular differentiation operates on the principle of pluripotency : the capacity for morphological change in cells whose genetic material and underlying relationships remain the same
+parametric component
-need to be defined by its relationship to adjacent components, in terms of assembly logics and adaptation to variable neighbouring components -have to incorporate performative capacities: its possible behaviours and responses to an external environment.
Morpho-Ecologies Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
+rethinking the discourse of heterogeneous space --rather than designing specific artefact, the focus is on defining, evolving and instrumentalizing the behaviour of a material system that becomes increasingly refined and calibrated
Morpho-Ecologies Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
+three categories of material system -proliferated component systems -globally modulated systems -aggregate systems
+to become architecture -further informed by context-specific conditions -strategies of spatial organization and synthesized structural and environmental performance -speculations about social formation and programmatic opportunities
