modular structures

                                    in design and architecture

                                   

                                    publication bis publishers amsterdam
                                    editors asterios agkathidis
                                    period 2009
                                    essays asterios agkathidis, gabi schillig, kostas terzidis,

                                    oliver tessmann, claudio veckstein, holger hoffmann.                          
                                                                                                                 

                                       SS

                                    This book examines morphogenetic processes based on a combination

                                    of digital and analogue modelling and manufacturing techniques.
                                    The introduction of the module, as the main instrument of geometric and
                                    structural determination, becomes crucial. The module as a
                                    pre-architectural unit is not read as a multiplying identical object,

                                    but as a variable set of rules, which due to emerging CAD / CAM

                                    technologies is able to adapt, grow und transform into surfaces and complex
                                    geometries. Fractals, algorithms and systems in nature are taken as

                                    a starting point for the planed experiment.