Concept Design
& Visualisation

Algorithmic
Facades
The research explores the ways of analysing complex systems and ways to understand the relations among them, focusing in architectural cases. It’s discussing the interface between time and place and at the same time it explores architecture and urban morphology according to the surface geometry, superficial depth, modulation of surfaces, systematic relations, multi-layered environments, history and sociological aspects .
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The project explores architecture as a method of understanding the world, as a reference frame within emergent time and history. The proposed site – Venetian Ghetto (Venice,Italia), is a multi-layered landscape of shift and transition, an archive of parallel histories, containing underground connections, transport systems, transforming geologies, sacred geometries, and a long tradition of secrecy, segregation and elitism. Each of these elements exist both individually and uniformly within the urban fabric. Yet they are not always recognisable to the untrained eye, instead emerging via subtle nuances and forms within the landscape.
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The architecture serves as a mean of decoding and engaging with such nuances. The re-scription of the site itself via the architecture will use “Systems Theory” principles, which are setting the rules for the integration method of history, memory and imagination. The project is aiming to achieve a new “recognition” of urban possibilities. In this way, the physical architectural response will act as a spatial reflector, uncovering new, emergent reference frames and thresholds within the area.
“What connects thinking to imagination, imagination to drawing, drawing to building and building to our eyes is projection in one guise or another, or processes we have chosen to model on projection.” Robin Evans

