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EMERGENT SYMMETRIES. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Jan 2009, Pages: 184
Highly complex designs can be described as layered
objects whose parts are all related symmetrically.
Meier offers an architecture that presents itself as
‘a system of systems’ of a hyper-refined
construction. Such a design exemplifies formal
qualities of abstraction, layering, complexity and
depth, all appearing impenetrable to any analysis
using the existing methods. The representational
model is built upon abstraction, projection,
weighting and layering. The wall functions as a
distributor of the forms of architecture: the
‘articulation in relief’ and the ‘organizational
scaffolding’. A new layering strategy borrows
elements from both and organizes the whole construct
along the premises of group theory. Such a synthesis
articulates the partial order lattice of the
configuration and carries through the computation.
Design is a mode of computation that explicitly
exercises both imagination and reason. A major
challenge is the degree to which the decompositions
provided prove visually the established discourses on
the subject. That’s an aspect of further critical
research on the ability of this methodology to align
itself with existing analytical discourses and prove
them or not.
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