“vertical structure is overrated … it’ s just an expeditious way for architects to calculate force, to just calculate it in reference to a vertical column… A building should communicate in a more dynamic way in order to react to the people moving within it.”[1]
Until now, architects have understood movement as the travel of a moving eye in space and architecture, in both its realization and its conception, has been understood as static, fixed, ideal and inert. In architecture motion, dynamics and flows are typically expressed through symbolic views of static forms. Buildings have been constructed as static forms, and architecture has been conceived and designed based on symmetry and immobility.
Digital evolution introduces a new design method, which affects the whole architectural process, from concept to construction. Now, space can be highly plastic, flexible, and mutable in its dynamic evolution through motion and transformation. Form can not only be defined by its internal parameters, but can be also effected by a variety of other fluctuating external, invisible forces and gradients (f.e. gravity, wind, turbulence, magnetism, moving particles) that are used as abstract analogies (pedestrian and automotive movement, environmental forces, intensities of use and occupation in time).
Greg Lynn FORM, is one of the first architectural offices that integrated the computer in its design process in an increasingly innovative manner and has produced projects that challenge traditional design methods. Computer programs are the tools to investigate the design through animations and the moving section, and to represent the project both in 2D and 3D.The office views the incorporation of state of the art hardware and software as a set of tools to investigate architectural performance within the framework of theories based on performance parameters that are only now being theorized in architecture.
“Organic design is not just a style” Lynn says. “Design, architecture and life will continue to become more and more biological, not merely biomorphic. I look forward to the software that lets us design not just the shape but also the growth and behaviour of animate matter. Designers and architects will continue to proliferate as there is more and more need for design, as we get access to more matter through genetic and biological innovations.”[2]
[1] http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/greg_lynn.shtml
Greg Lynn FORM, is one of the first architectural offices that integrated the computer in its design process in an increasingly innovative manner and has produced projects that challenge traditional design methods. Computer programs are the tools to investigate the design through animations and the moving section, and to represent the project both in 2D and 3D.The office views the incorporation of state of the art hardware and software as a set of tools to investigate architectural performance within the framework of theories based on performance parameters that are only now being theorized in architecture.
“Organic design is not just a style” Lynn says. “Design, architecture and life will continue to become more and more biological, not merely biomorphic. I look forward to the software that lets us design not just the shape but also the growth and behaviour of animate matter. Designers and architects will continue to proliferate as there is more and more need for design, as we get access to more matter through genetic and biological innovations.”[2]
[1] http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/greg_lynn.shtml
Interfacing Realities: Lecture by Greg Lynn
(image above: Greg Lynn Embriological Housing
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