SYSTEMIC ARCHITECTURE: Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing

Description

Systemic Architecture: Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City
This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization.
Collecting together nearly a decade of design experiments by the authors and their practice, ecoLogicStudio, the book discusses key disciplinary definitions such as ecologic urbanism, algorithmic architecture, bottom-up or tactical design, behavioural space and the boundary of the natural and the artificial realms within the city and architecture.
A new kind of “real-time world-city” is illustrated in the form of an operational design manual for the assemblage of proto-architectures, the incubation of proto-gardens and the coding of proto-interfaces. These prototypes of machinic architecture materialize as synthetic hybrids embedded with biological life (proto-gardens), computational power, behavioural responsiveness (cyber-gardens), spatial articulation (coMachines and fibrous structures), remote sensing (FUNclouds), and communication capabilities (Ecological Footprint Grotto).

CONTENTS

a1. Thoughts on Systemic Architecture

• The Ecology of the Self-Organizing City
• The Urban Algorithm
• Coding as Gardening
• Algorithmic DiverseCity
• Architecture as Systemic Design Practice

a2. Discussions on Systemic Architecture

• Michael Batty and Andrew Hudson-Smith: The Liquid City
• Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto in conversation with Patrik Schumacher: On Systemic Architecture
• Michael Weinstock: Ecology and Material Culture

b1. Environments

b2. Machines

b3. Behavioral Spaces

270 pages, color ills / 17,5 x 24,5 cm / English