A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Embryologic Houses© (2000)
Greg Lynn's Embryologic Houses epitomize the spirit and achievements of digital mass‐customization and computational morphogenetics at the turn of the millennium, on the eve of the dotcom crash which would dampen the technological optimism of the 1990s. The Embryologic Houses employ a rigorous system of geometrical limits that liberate models of endless variations. This provides a generic sensibility common to all Embryologic Houses, but no two buildings are ever identical. The technique engages the need for any globally marketed product to have brand identity and variation within the same graphic and spatial system, allowing the possibility for recognition and novelty. Embryologic Houses are designed as a flexible, curvilinear surface rather than as a fixed set at rigid points. Embryologic Houses, voluptuous fenestration, apertures, openings and orientation to light, air, human and mechanical penetration occur through a technique of curvilinear shreds, louvres and pores that derives from the topology of the surfaces.
Embryologic Houses© (2000)
Greg Lynn's Embryologic Houses epitomize the spirit and achievements of digital mass‐customization and computational morphogenetics at the turn of the millennium, on the eve of the dotcom crash which would dampen the technological optimism of the 1990s. The Embryologic Houses employ a rigorous system of geometrical limits that liberate models of endless variations. This provides a generic sensibility common to all Embryologic Houses, but no two buildings are ever identical. The technique engages the need for any globally marketed product to have brand identity and variation within the same graphic and spatial system, allowing the possibility for recognition and novelty. Embryologic Houses are designed as a flexible, curvilinear surface rather than as a fixed set at rigid points. Embryologic Houses, voluptuous fenestration, apertures, openings and orientation to light, air, human and mechanical penetration occur through a technique of curvilinear shreds, louvres and pores that derives from the topology of the surfaces.
Embryologic Houses© (2000)
Carpo, Mario (editor) / Lynn, Greg (author)
2013-03-27
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
| British Library Online Contents | 2000
| British Library Online Contents | 2000
Greg Lynn - Embryologic Houses (C)TM
| Online Contents | 2000
| Online Contents | 2000
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British Library Online Contents | 1999