2 . m i n i m u m m a x i m u m
The project explores the application of minimal surface geometries yielding an application as a structural building component to be forged of a single surface sheet material. Minimal surfaces form cells in a crystalline environment, yielding a periodic single surface geometry in a complex topological condition circumscribing a maximized volume. The components are calculated to maximize volume-material ratio and structural resistance, minimizing material investment and clippings. Through the use of an associative design environment, the developed component can be effortlessly applied to various building envelopes.
Moving away from rigid instrumentalities on the one side and fictional representational effects on the other, engagement is invested in dynamically relational assemblages. Programming variable behaviors replaces the paradigm of modeling. Taking a generative programmatic approach, the design process is removed from precoded tools to a set of general and conceptual computational systems, exploring their potency for material practice. By using associative parametric software, relationships are modeled as a composite of design intuition, programming and parametric limits of particular material set up and fabrication process.
Behavioral fields are set up through discrete agents which are constrained into internally cohering relations across various hierarchies. By setting up relationships of local stimulus and global response, material system is negotiating between various scales of actualization while simultaneously preserving its material and geometric behaviors. Structural, spatial and textural differentiation, to name a few can be tested in a context of a particular host project. Geometric transformations are linked to material and fabrication constraints, allowing for synthetic computing of various systems involved.
2007