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
