A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonise with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
Studying the foldability of structures- how through advanced engineering structures could move and transform themselves is the way to achieve but architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
It involves a respect for the properties of the materials—you don’t twist steel into a flower—and a respect for the harmonious relationship between the form/design and the function of the building. It is also an attempt to integrate the spaces into a coherent whole using new ways: a marriage between the site and the structure and a union between the context and the structure. However we ought to go beyond the surface, the design element, and touch upon the reality. Using Engineering to explore the structure and advances in technology and new materials comes from Arch computing, we can slowly expand the boundaries of what could be made so revolutionary possibilities had emerged for a new kind of architecture.
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