\\ Non Lienar  growth with algorithms \\

SUMARY

The idea of the text is a metaphor between the behavior of ant colonies, animal cells, humans and cities. On the whole, the people as the ants, think locally and act locally, but their collective action produces global behavior. The scale of knowledge is reduced in the individuals, but the city has his own intelligence driven by thousands of people who act in different fields producing changes in them. Neighborhoods are themselves polycentric structures, born of thousands of local interactions, shapes forming within the city larger shape.

The sidewalk role is so important in the cities because allow the information exchange is carried by the people. The interactions between neighbors are produced on them, creating tacit consensus that generates groups of people with certain  similarities.

Those interactions enabled cities to create emergent systems. Under the apparently disorder of the cities, the things looks that they are working successfully. This order is all composed of movement and change. Like in the ants world, random local interactions leading to global order.

Cities are higher level organism (than ants)but the humans are far more intelligent than these insects. We consciously make decision, not simply driven by genes and pheromones.

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BOTTOM-UP SYSTEM

This text could be related with the “Bottom-Up” systems because goes from the individuals,  to achieve a main goal, that is going to help the whole group in survival issues. The text is focused also in looking for the behavior of ants colonies and cities, in order to understand the parameters and algorithms that will produce the non linear growth of both of them, driven by the individuals.

///by  Carlos Bausá Martínez ///

MAIN IDEAS SUMARY:

1) Architects should Learn from tree structures organization, and nature.

2) We should remove all the impurities form our buildings.

3) It’s difficult to combine “good architecture” and economical factors.

4) Architecture should be done for people, not only for architects.

QUESTION: What kind of elements should architects take into account, to create good architecture with “economical solutions” which could be interesting for  builders, politics, and users at the same time?

In the first statement of the text written By Toyo Ito, he starts thinking that architecture should learn from Tree Structures, in order to apply its basics to create architectural elements more integrated with the natural and urban environments. The idea of no boundaries between inner and outer spaces is important to achieve this kind of architecture.

Following the same explanation, architecture should be more connected with nature in order to create more sustainable solutions, removing what is unnecessary and minimizing the impact on the environment.

Architecture is endowed with an halo of speculation and useful ideas that sometimes are balanced  and sometimes not. Toyo Ito is worried about this in his text. He said  most of the times is not possible to deal with the economical factors and the worst solutions become real in order to get as much money as possible.

He ends the text saying that architecture should be made (and explained) for normal people, not for architects. Actually a big amount of projects are done in a way that only feeds the intellectual necessities of the architects, and nevertheless the inhabitants don’t feel comfortable or don’t understand what’s going on.