FORMS AND TECTONICS OF EMERGENT ARCHITECTURE

FORMS AND TECTONICS OF EMERGENT ARCHITECTURE
An Educated Guess based upon study of Emergent Cellular Aggregations.


ABSTRACT:
The basis of this Research Paper thus is exploring the Idea of Emergence in Architecture by virtue of its Forms and Tectonics. The Research attempts to do an analogous reading between Emergence in Architecture and Emergence of Microscopic Biological systems. The objective of the research is not about the Biological Accuracy but about finding out Morphogenetic Principles those represents the Efficiency, Flexibility and Robustness present in them. The first part of the research elaborates the idea of Emergence in Architecture with help of few writings and works by Architect Tom Wiscombe while the later part studies Emergence of Cellular Aggregations with examples of Slime Mould and Lichen. The Research concludes by the Architectonic Principles observed in those Systems.

KEYWORDS:
Emergence, Bottom-up Method, Cellular Aggregation, Self Similar, Slime Mould, Lichen.