| * The third principle was //modularity//. I wonder if working with modular structures, we can make space which are alive. Christopher Alexander always asks himself the most important question when concerning spaciality: -how does it feel- as the most accurate scientific question. So one can ask himself; how does it feel to be in a modular surrounding...note that nature is never modular. Nature is full of almost similar units (waves, raindrops, blades of grass-) but though the units of one kind are all alike in their broad structure, no two are ever alike in detail. - the same broad features keep recurring over and over again. - in their detail appearance these broad features are never twice the same. - The quality of places is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs. Each part is slightly different, according to its position in the whole. Each branch of a tree has a slightly different shape, according to its position in the tree. Each leaf on the branch is given its detailed form by its position on the branch. And maybe that's why for instance a tree or a waves or FOam is never boring. So an alternative is to think of -differentiating spaces-: It is not a process of addition, in which pre-formed parts are combined to create a whole: but a process of __unfolding__, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes in parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting (so becoming different in the process of growth or development). Only a process of __differentiation__, can generate a natural thing; because this kind of process can shape parts individually, according to their position in the whole. | * The third principle was //modularity//. I wonder if working with modular structures, we can make space which are alive. Christopher Alexander always asks himself the most important question when concerning spaciality: -how does it feel- as the most accurate scientific question. So one can ask himself; how does it feel to be in a modular surrounding...note that nature is never modular. Nature is full of almost similar units (waves, raindrops, blades of grass-) but though the units of one kind are all alike in their broad structure, no two are ever alike in detail. - the same broad features keep recurring over and over again. - in their detail appearance these broad features are never twice the same. - The quality of places is never twice the same, because it always takes its shape from the particular place in which it occurs. Each part is slightly different, according to its position in the whole. Each branch of a tree has a slightly different shape, according to its position in the tree. Each leaf on the branch is given its detailed form by its position on the branch. And maybe that's why for instance a tree or a waves or FOam is never boring. So an alternative is to think of -differentiating spaces-: It is not a process of addition, in which pre-formed parts are combined to create a whole: but a process of __unfolding__, like the evolution of an embryo, in which the whole precedes in parts, and actually gives birth to them, by splitting (so becoming different in the process of growth or development). Only a process of __differentiation__, can generate a natural thing; because this kind of process can shape parts individually, according to their position in the whole. |
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