Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Living Skins; Problems, Definitions, and Applications

A Living Skin can be seen as many different things. It is important to establish definitions as well as basis for further review so that critique will not be relative.

Problems of a Lemon applied to Skin
-Time affecting the nature of architecture; Shrinking and expanding according to time.
-Skin thickness in response to friction; lenses of site

Design informed by site, conditions, climate, time of year, time of day, circulation

A college can be seen as a living body, a living layer of the university.

Flux of Space, Flexible Design.

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