[Patterns]

Nature seems to be a great reference for humans in all aspects of their life and in architecture as well. Natural systems and structures, evolved through a longtime process of adaptation and selection prove the fact that nature always provide effective solutions for development of its systems without disturbances to other organisms or leaving waste behind. Looking closer at natural organisms or physical products, one can see that there are almost always small scale parts (cells, Molecules, …) which repeated and created patterns like tissues to generally create these structures and organisms. Pattern formation through cell division and cell growth in living organisms is a great generative Natural Algorithm that more than just physically creating an organism, responds to all aspects of its life like environmental material and energy transformations.

Architecture in a similar fashion has always employed the potentials of patterns in formation of its structures, spaces and even decorations. Although patterns in architecture are rigid and limited in their adaptation to the site situation, yet they are productive constructs for space and structure development in any possible scale and agenda. Observing potentials and limitations of classical examples of patterns, lead contemporary architects for further development of patterns in more adaptive systems, to be able to customize their design as what is needed. This is the challenge of contemporary design that informed architecture by natural systems with all possibilities of adaptive patterns to apply them into more adaptive systems in architecture and building industry.

While a geometrical model developed digitally, it was addressed by flat sheets from scratch and the overall geometry divided into various cells made out of folded sheet material. After design phase, all cells opened and projected into sheets (nested) and then cut and folded to generate cells. Since this part of the research was mostly about techniques and materialization, the main focus is still undergoes for further development of synthesized materialization techniques.

It is an ongoing task in front of [morphogenesism] to observe natural patterns in all different scales from fish schooling in the oceans up to cellular micro scale tissues to understand the way they developed and the ability they gain through their process of morphogenesis to see how they are capable of being multi-performance in their behavior and try to apply this understanding (Geometry, from, performance, organization, etc) into design and physical products of built environment. To do this, a parallel process of observation and understanding of natural systems parallel to the system development, experiment, design and analysis is needed. Development of customized adaptive patterns seems to be a generative system for the development of multiple-performance products like facades, envelopes, walls, structures, etc. This is a task which is being pursued in combination with ‘Translucent Cell Morphologies’ in morphogenesism.