Posted by Jacques Pochoy on March 30, 2002 at 10:42:25:In Reply to: Vers Une Architecture Nouveau posted by Paul Malo on March 30, 2002 at 07:50:49:
There is more in "Patterning" that is usually written... Salingaros describes it better.. But sometimes gets his own feelings in the way...:-)
Anyhow that's maybe the starting point... the "chaos" effect (I dislike the word, I prefered when it was still called the "complexity"!) which of course is not chaotic or complex in the classical sense...:-) What could be the "strange attractor" of a façade..?
Of course, some could object that it's just another wording for classical aesthetism, but, even if it's the case, it's also a way of thinking that is different, allowing an open end research...Then there is sustainability... Which has more facets then the usual high/low tech answers on energy consumption... As in "Patterning" there is a "scale" effect "retro-action"...Matter and form... Ventilation treated directly in the porous matter with nanotech valves, air bubbled glass, waxed thin walls, etc... Matter, in it's molecular chemistry eges slowly in the conceptual designing phase as an architectural argument...
The "Human" factor is a major part of sustainability's process... Comfort takes a new sense of social responsability instead of the egotist one we practice usually (My house, my mower, my fence, my car, my office, my dog...)!
This factor leads to try to keep communities alive and not to break them apart by big zones demolitions, but to "recycle" those buildings of the "60ies" by listening to the needs of the people living in them.
"History" can then be "read" through architecture, giving back that feeling of eternity of antique or classical architecture....(See, my son, this is where I grew up...)!The superposition of the two gives us some real "strange attractor" with some actions limited to a unique scale, others going all the way through different scales, either in a linear way or undergoing some transformation matrix at each scale (such as fractals). With a good knowledge of human perception, a building could be as cozy as a glove, and still be an excrescence of an historical city... Maybe then would we find the result... Beautiful???
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