A Disscusion of a New Responsive Architecture + Left and below: Semicovered strees in Africa. Light and Shadows. Source: Architecture without Archi tecs. 1. Chasseloup-Laubat 2. Marcel Griaule
9.2 Design Tactics
On the other hand, the works of the artists Jansen and Toledo convey the practice of ideas as they deal with the practice of design. They construct movement within movement time, within time objects, within objects as a method of revealing essence by blending the natural with the composed environment. The various tactics used by these two artists give greater depth to both the natural technology used within this project, and the inclusion of the narrative to provide feedback. Technologically, they give a new perspective on the functionality aspect of the system, allowing several parts to work at the same time within the same piece, informing the piece and enabling the development of the ´responsive architecture´. In the case created by Jansen, technologies that transfer the information by mean of natural sources such as wind, seem to come alive when they work properly together. The work of Toledo on the otherhand, inform the practice of design as well as the system, however in a more narrative sense. His pieces of work transport to a different era than the one when these original pieces were created, bringing new features to the narrative. His works represent a primitive but rich type of parametric geometry created without the help of any software. Each of the overlapped layers that conform his work, represent a parametric layer, while at the same time, it captures a layer of information and narrative collected in time. ´La Lagartera´ is the best example of this, and constitutes a very important design reference for the development of this project.
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