Case study: Watercube_Beijing National Aquatics Center_ PTW Architects, CSCEC, CCDI, Arup Reading: On Growth and form_ D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson Nature and the notion of organic have always been of much interest from architects designers and urban planners. Extensive theoretical studies, as well as architectural applications, have attempted to simulate nature, by extracting forms, [...]
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DIGITAL LOGICS _ T1
Posted in Eirini Aikaterini Papakonstantinou Also tagged Advanced Architecture, digital logics, on growth and form Comments closed
Digital Logics- On growth and form
Thompson wrote On Growth and form in the maturity of a career that lay somewhat outside the mainstream of the biological sciences of his day. His writings were a large contribution for the study of morphology. On Growth and Form is essentially an attempt to establish a concept of organic form based upon the physical [...]
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WATER CUBE – Beijing National Aquatics Center – 2008
WATER CUBE Beijing National Aquatics Center – 2008 The water cube is an aquatic center won in a competition by PTW architects and built for the swimming competitions of the 2008 summer Olympics. The ecologically friendly water cube maximized social and economic standards. One of the concepts the architects used was to build on [...]