PATTERNS IN NATURE

image link :  http://www.beyondstillness.net/ taken on 05/12/13

In the essay by Manuel De landa is talking about the “GENESIS OF A FORM”. He doesn’t agree with the western philosophy that conceives matter as inert element forms that comes from the outside and not from the inside. There are two important factors that help create a form in nature which are Mathematics and Thermodynamics.

Deleuze differentiates form into two categories the first is the “strata” and the “self-consistent aggregates”. The Strata being the “trees” and self- consistent aggregates being the “rhizomes”. Both of these result in isomorphic actual forms, but the one has to do with the fusion of homogeneous elements while the other explains the unification of heterogeneous elements. De landa is also explaining how a form emerges from organizational structure of biological, molecular as well all the socio economic environments.

Deleuze was hugely influenced by mathematics and physics and use these to understand and decompose the virtual form as well as use it as a tool to help in actualization of the virtual. The example he uses for the real and virtual is the DNA, the DNA of the embryo is virtual because it has a lot of potential and real is the embryo that is created along with the external influences.

The Form that is created in nature can be seen growing in many different yet morphological patterns. These patterns repeat, coexists, vary and transform in various life forms. Digital logics deals with parametric, swarm technology etc and with the help of digital tools we can simplify these patterns and understand them. I would like to study more about the patterns in nature and research about it and how it can help in Form evolution of a project.

This is a link to  a video done by Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux showing how mathematics and diagram go hand in hand .

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” —Bertrand Russell

http://vimeo.com/77330591#

                                        quote:  http://matsysdesign.com/,  25th of  Nov. 2013

Machine, the most creative device in the beginning 20-century. It is supposed being asked to do anything, which the mission ordered, by human, or rather saying that it just is able to do, not thinks firstly and do afterwards.

However, if we take the consideration between the human being with computer and labor with machine, we found out that it is the same state. On the other hand, for instance, architecture students or architects use the software to replace the conventional way for the time-consuming work. However, in the unconscious way, we are going to lose our own mind as well as being controlled by the pre-set comment of the software. What is more, we start to design the building, which the software is able to, not we are asking what we can do. If we look back to the previous architects, they always thought the design for the future (for the furthermore machine have not invented).  We shall not put ourselves into the limited box, sometimes forget about the computer, software or technology, it might have more interesting things are going to be happened.

 http://matsysdesign.com/2009/06/19/constellations/, 25th 0f Nov. 2013

For these generations, there are more and more machines which we can use in the 3-dimension way, just like the normal printer, sending file and printing it. It does helps a lot, we don’t need to spend lots of times on making several models to be tested to make sure whether it is working properly or not. Furthermore, we even can see the visible renders in the monitors as well as simulating the natural ways in the new materials which we are going to invent and used in the building façade. Probably, some people might argue that it could not to image or imitate the ecosystem with software, but it cant not to be ignored that the climate has been changing dramatically. We are not able to predict some situation with conventional way.

Last but not least, the ability of machine can do the things which human being is not able to achieve in terms of power, persistence and accuracy. Just in case you can use it in the proper way, not to be used or controlled because of the limitation of machine. Quote from the book, “ unlearning is as important a learning”,  on the other hand, it should be considered in the human thought way .

by Toward a Theory of Architecture Machines, Nicholas Negroponte, 2010