Goal

The growing popularity of CIT (Communication and Information Technologies) brought fundamental changes in social, economical and cultural environment of our society. The possibility of being everywhere and being nowhere at the same time converted us to the Nomads of the new Millennium. Now we are living in a despatialised society, only the time counts and not the places. The materiality around us is in a dynamic change and the human is not fixed in a place.
Architecture still is stable and massive and for this reason cannot adapt itself to new dynamics in the society. Depending on this problem, it's in my interest to create a space which can respond to the changes in its environment, which can be customized for each use, which offers endless variations in form and function.

MySpace

Web blogs as myspace are the new digital places, which give the users n-possibilities of organizing the pages depending on different parameters.

Self Organisation in Industrial and Fashion Design

Hussein Chalayan is a London based fashion designer who is experimenting with form and material in his collections. In his collection Spring/Summer 2007 he utilizes software controlled micro motors which are built in the textile structure to create a self-regenerating system.

http://watch.fashiontelevision.com/collections/designers/hussein-chalayan/clip98694#clip98694





BMW GINA Light is the latest concept car of BMW, which utilizes a flexible textile as the cover to form its outer skin. Whit the moveable skelett structure under this skin GINA can change its form in The almost seamless flexible textile cover that stretches across a moveable substructure has dispensed with the usual body elements found on production vehicles such as front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors, wheel arches, roof, trunk lid and rear deck. The new material offers designers a significantly higher level of freedom of design and functionality.

Computed Selforganisation

Self-organization is a process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source. The self organization is a process in which the internal organization of a system adapts to the environment to promote a specific function without being guided or managed from outside.
The self organization processes underlying the behavior of living organisms to the environmental changes can provide important lessons in architectural design.
After a collaboration of biologists and computational scientists at the Department of the Computer Science at the University of Calgary a team working for Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz developed software for plant growth simulations and the depending on L-Systems.
L-Systems are formal descriptions for the growth patterns of different, simple multi cellular organisms, researched by the biologist Aristid Lindenmayer. An L-System is a formal grammar in the computer science, which consist of four elements: a starting point, a set of rules or syntax, constants and variables. Diversity can be achieved by varying starting points and different growth times. L-Systems grow by writing and rewriting the code, and the expression of the code depends on the graphical command selected.

for Example

Lsystem: 0

derivation length: STEPS

Axiom: G(2)[A][B][a][b]

A --> [+A{.].C.}

B --> [-B{.].C.}

a --> ;;;[+a.].C.

b --> ;;;[-b.].C.

C --> ;G,C

endlsystem

Another research on biological computer science is the study of behavioral ecology and the translation of this in the software simulations. Behavior is an observable action of an organism or species to the environmental factors. Behavioral ecology entails, therefore, the ecological and evolutionary basis of behavior and the roles of behavior in enabling organisms to adapt to their ecological niches. It concerns how there organisms are affected by their biotic or abiotic environment.
Using these tools in architecture can help us to control entire building systems or envelopes by multivariable input and create multi-performance structures which respond to their environment.

Natural Adaptation and Self Organisation

A growing flower is an easy example for the self organization in the nature. The flower changes its state of minimal volume according to dynamical changes in the environment. This can be translated in architecture in the organization of membrane structures.

Reflexive movement of the jellyfish affects volumetric changes in creature's body. The tentacles generate new body structure with every move.

The anemons where the clownfishes are housing in the ocean can adapt itselves to the movement of the fishes.