''Biomorphic is a sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, especially an ameba or protozoan.'' (Random House, Inc., 2015)
One of the Biomorphic architecture which I have looked into is the Urban Lobby by MRGD Architect.''The project looks at the urban lobby as a contested and negotiated transient space, between public and private, work and home, transit and statics, etc. Interestingly, the team approaches their design by using an existing 1970s office tower (Centre Point) in London as the starting point for the new lobby, an apparent appendage that links the building to its context while infiltrating the existing at levels higher than the typical lobby's reach.'' (Hill J., 2007)
One of the Biomorphic architecture which I have looked into is the Urban Lobby by MRGD Architect.''The project looks at the urban lobby as a contested and negotiated transient space, between public and private, work and home, transit and statics, etc. Interestingly, the team approaches their design by using an existing 1970s office tower (Centre Point) in London as the starting point for the new lobby, an apparent appendage that links the building to its context while infiltrating the existing at levels higher than the typical lobby's reach.'' (Hill J., 2007)
''According to the architect, compartmentalization and the dissociation of internal elements are potential signs of anarchy and schizophrenia. Fuzzy logic thinking is another step of helping human thought to recognize our environment less as a world of crisp boundaries and disconnections and more as a field of swarming agents with blurred borders. Urban Lobby is investigating the potential of fuzzy logic as a loose-fit organizational technique for developing intelligent, flexible and adaptive environments. Seeing the project as a testing ground for its computational tools and design techniques, the team expands its research territory from focusing and systemizing the dynamic hair tool as generative design machine to a larger scale, involving therefore levels of social, cultural and global organizations. The aim set by the team is to demonstrate a wide range of formal, spatial and programmatic organizations, exploring the ideas of form finding and self-organization.'' (Anon, 2009)
In order to developed the spatial and structural systems, a series of process have been carried out :
- Through calibration of the hair algorithm, unexpected behavioral patterns have been generated such as flocking, curling or felting.
- Through a series of analogue computational models different logics of branching, looping or weaving were analyzed to find ways of creating spatial and structural systems through desification.
- Structural systems which have been analyzed will then be transferred into a digital code, allowing for literal, three dimensional application.
- Through a series of surfacing studies via parametric software (Microstation/ Generative Components), a skinning strategy for the project was developed.
- Produce a prototype of structural mode
''The form builds up with the circulation logic based on the hair system’s algorithm, followed by a post production phase highlighting the primary arteries which become structural spines and secondary lines that become circulation paths. The form is complemented by a grid logic flowing and producing a secondary system highly driven into the primary. It’s a moment of primary and secondary logic modulated along with a skin layer involving additional subsystems fitting together.''
''The random production of using force in the hair systems experiments produced the first step of elegance, the use of logics , continuities and algorithms, laws for differentiation, were all part of the first step towards elegance. It really become virtuosity when we no longer use computers and technology but creatively solve the interpolation and inter-articulation into the organic domain a process that happens through evolution and trial and error and cross interpretation of subsystems all leading to production of elegance.''(Etherington R., 2007)
''The random production of using force in the hair systems experiments produced the first step of elegance, the use of logics , continuities and algorithms, laws for differentiation, were all part of the first step towards elegance. It really become virtuosity when we no longer use computers and technology but creatively solve the interpolation and inter-articulation into the organic domain a process that happens through evolution and trial and error and cross interpretation of subsystems all leading to production of elegance.''(Etherington R., 2007)
Sources :
Etherington R. (2007),Urban Lobby by MRGD Architects. Available at : http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/01/urban-lobby-by-mrgd-architects/
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Anon. (2009), New Urban Lobby according to Christopher Alexander. Available at :
https://premioacxtidompfc.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/newurbanlobby_br2.pdf
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Hill J. (2007), A Daily Dose of Architecture : Urban Lobby. Available at : http://archidose.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/urban-lobby.html
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Anon. (2012), Urban Lobby in London. Available at : http://us.archello.com/en/project/urban-lobby-london/833643 Last accessed : 20/11/2015
Random House, Inc. (2015), Bio-morph. Available at : http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biomorphic Last accessed : 20/11/2015