parellels

Draw parellels between fashion and architecture?

The act of putting on clothes, different clothes for every season is fundamentally to adapt and to anticipate the changing conditions of our environment. We change clothes every day, and the types of clothes differ every season.

However, we can't build a new house, a new school or a new office tower every season. So instead we make buildings adaptable all year round. Through "component proliferation" or "local manipulation of a larger global system" Menges in "Morpho-ecologies: Approaching Complex Environments" (whatever that means) we make buildings that transform instead of a static computer iteration of a building form that is a compromise or a balance of a few important criteria.

Now, a building like that will make itself so-last-season, over and over again. What an oxymoron.

Where does this lead to?

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