Systemic Section

Semester: Second Semester, Core Curriculum
Critic: Christine Yogiaman

Brief: Develop a unit with responsive characteristics to adapt to an extreme climatic condition

Project: Model: Addresses performative characteristics of a water lily: as the organism populates, it reacts to existing units, pushing upwards and responding to neighboring units for access to sunlight.

Drawing: Using the logic of the model (understanding spatial relationships between units as a way of curating space), the drawing investigates how to congregate units, first along edge conditions, then out into open water.

Displayed at the Society of American Registered Architects meeting in St. Louis (Spring 2012)

Included in the student work book: Approach