Digital Modelling

Circavior²
Circavior
Erotech Skins

Parametric Urbanism 08

Thames Gateway - Urban Laboratory

Circavior ²

Proceeding from the inherent unity and stability of circular constraints, Circavior² deploys the skeleton genotype into larger, intricate assemblies. Using spiraling pattern as a dynamical self-organizing process, the internal differentiation of urban components generates a close-knit integration of all parts and subsystems.

The open and ductile structural system negotiates on multiple scales, and shifts a vast range of differentiation into the structural field logics. Within this urban field conditions, Circavior² generates not one single symmetrical configuration, but a multiplicity of collineations among the urban components.

w/ Rasa Navasaityte

Studio Zaha Hadid

Parametric Urbanism 07/08

Thames Gateway - Urban Laboratory


Circavior

Nearly five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci found latency in his investigations on turbulence, relating clouds with cities in his sketches (1). When others drawed figures as their materialistic outlines, his figures emerged out of the turbulent behaviour in a coherent system.

But in opposite to a sketch, architecture has to become materialized.

In Circavior the material conditions are generic definitions of spaces, at first on an architectural scale.
Using the multiplying effect of scripting techniques, our approach multiplies space-behaviours to an urbanistic scale. The connection to a coherent system, (like a topography of events or a map of subjectional relations), not only produces a range of spatial differentiation, but also produces unexpected readings through the merging of behaviours.

Circavior shifts the understanding of a city as an arrangement of dichotomous tectonic divisions and typologies, to the focus on environmental gradient thresholds.

Leonardo da Vinci: Investigations on turbulence in water; 1519

w/ Oskar v. Hanstein, Daniel Köhler, Rasa Navasaityte

studio Zaha Hadid