THE RISE
ADAPTIVE PARAMETRISATION
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CITA Complex Modelling
The Rise demonstrates the potential for using design systems based on ideas of growth to develop working structural systems in a changing environment. It achieves this by collapsing the space between generation, simulation, analysis and feedback. The design system envisages architecture not as static and prescribed, but instead continuously adapting to the dynamics of its surroundings and its own material constraint while it grows into form. The Rise falls outside of the traditional tropes of architectural thinking. Neither a wall, beam nor cantilever, The Rise is modelled in the image of a bush. It’s dense and highly complex topology is an abstract of a structure rather than an assimilation. The Rise introduces ideas of working between the scales of the material and the structure. In difference to other Complex Modelling projects, The Rise does not manipulate or design at material scale. Instead, it operates by differentiating between rattan thicknesses thereby grading performance.
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