A universal set of mathematical qualities combine complexity with geometry to define“living geometry”.Those properties apply equally to organisms as to inanimate matter.A special type of geometry that merges approxi...A universal set of mathematical qualities combine complexity with geometry to define“living geometry”.Those properties apply equally to organisms as to inanimate matter.A special type of geometry that merges approximate fractal structure with nested symmetries on all scales describes most biological and natural forms.Christopher Alexander discovered 15 geometrical properties in the context of architecture adapted to human feelings,and those provide a practical toolkit for creating living geometry in artifacts,buildings,and urban spaces.AI can be used to both validate the importance of living geometry for human health,and to evaluate architectural designs before and after they are built.Human beings evolved their neurological system to interpret living geometry defined by the ancestral natural environment,and the same interpretative reference is used to navigate today’s built environment.This knowledge helps to understand how geometry affects cognition,emotions,and health.Asking large-language models about the best learning environments for creative thought produces a list of suggestions for renovating lecture and studio spaces in architecture schools.A severe disconnect between the contemporary urban experience and living geometry has negative effects on human health,intelligence,and the learning process.AI helps to completely rethink design aesthetics and design-making strategies.展开更多
How to learn from vernacular heritage and apply its lessons to contemporary architecture is not a recent concern.Admiration towards popular buildings can be traced back to key figures of the Modern Movement.Furthermor...How to learn from vernacular heritage and apply its lessons to contemporary architecture is not a recent concern.Admiration towards popular buildings can be traced back to key figures of the Modern Movement.Furthermore,later critical stances on the consequences of modernity drew even a closer,though rarely noticed link to this question.Aldo van Eyck's Configurative Discipline,Amos Rapoport's culturally specific design,John F.C.Turner's advocacy for self-construction,Sergio Ferro's Aesthetics of Separation,and Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language,all seemed to seek a sense of unity in the architectural process that could,indeed,be verified in the traditional ways of doing.The revision and comparison of their ideas,in light of the values of vernacular heritage,aims to identify general variables that influence the creation of the environment and whose integral consideration could lead to that underlying principle of unity.As a result,collective predispositions of cultural,political,and material order,or more personal reactions related to emotion,habitability,or economy are distilled to build a preliminary conceptual framework.This framework is coherent with recent findings and current trends in the field and may serve to identify possible paths of action for the future.展开更多
文摘A universal set of mathematical qualities combine complexity with geometry to define“living geometry”.Those properties apply equally to organisms as to inanimate matter.A special type of geometry that merges approximate fractal structure with nested symmetries on all scales describes most biological and natural forms.Christopher Alexander discovered 15 geometrical properties in the context of architecture adapted to human feelings,and those provide a practical toolkit for creating living geometry in artifacts,buildings,and urban spaces.AI can be used to both validate the importance of living geometry for human health,and to evaluate architectural designs before and after they are built.Human beings evolved their neurological system to interpret living geometry defined by the ancestral natural environment,and the same interpretative reference is used to navigate today’s built environment.This knowledge helps to understand how geometry affects cognition,emotions,and health.Asking large-language models about the best learning environments for creative thought produces a list of suggestions for renovating lecture and studio spaces in architecture schools.A severe disconnect between the contemporary urban experience and living geometry has negative effects on human health,intelligence,and the learning process.AI helps to completely rethink design aesthetics and design-making strategies.
基金funded by MEC(Spanish Ministry of Education,Culture and Sport),under grant FPU 17/024282018-2022,as part of the research carried out for a doctoral thesis defended on December 19,2022 at the Universitat Politècnica de València(UPV)。
文摘How to learn from vernacular heritage and apply its lessons to contemporary architecture is not a recent concern.Admiration towards popular buildings can be traced back to key figures of the Modern Movement.Furthermore,later critical stances on the consequences of modernity drew even a closer,though rarely noticed link to this question.Aldo van Eyck's Configurative Discipline,Amos Rapoport's culturally specific design,John F.C.Turner's advocacy for self-construction,Sergio Ferro's Aesthetics of Separation,and Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language,all seemed to seek a sense of unity in the architectural process that could,indeed,be verified in the traditional ways of doing.The revision and comparison of their ideas,in light of the values of vernacular heritage,aims to identify general variables that influence the creation of the environment and whose integral consideration could lead to that underlying principle of unity.As a result,collective predispositions of cultural,political,and material order,or more personal reactions related to emotion,habitability,or economy are distilled to build a preliminary conceptual framework.This framework is coherent with recent findings and current trends in the field and may serve to identify possible paths of action for the future.
