At this point in the development of aggregations questions of scale have been asked and answered to varying levels of success. This is partly due to nature of the design process that the components originated without having an inherent scale to them as units, thus making the aggregation they create also scaleless. The aggregation does not contain any reference to establish size or scope. Therefore the aggregation can exist across scales without manipulation of the component parts.
Reiser+Umemoto address this issue of the scaleless diagram in Atlas of Novel Tectonics chapter on diagram deployment. In the chapter they describe the field/system(aggregation) as a diagram that is waiting to be defined by the imposition of scale and materiality upon it. The deployment of the system across scales creates, according to RUR, a scale of less-to-more interesting results. It is within this range that they tackle design and the problem of translating the diagram to architecture, and it is also within this range that you will develop your aggregations.
Migrating Floating Gardens by Rael San Fratello Architects is a sketch for a project focusing on introducing green into the urban environment through the consideration of non-Cartesian space, or as they put it "floating in the air".
From June 1 through August 1, the Illinois Institute of Technology will be hosting Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds within Mies van der Rohe’s S. R. Crown Hall. In a Venndian example of both Art and Architecture's shared interest in space exploration, we have a component based sculpture, reminiscent of clouds.
These are two projects that are particularly relevant for their different approaches towards making "human scale" objects out of component pieces.
Last night I mentioned several projects that are worth looking at. SEED Magazine thankfully has a lot of videos of most of the projects all in one easy to use site:
Chris Lasch of Aranda/Lasch - Growing Space
Matthew Ritchie - The Morning Line
Skylar Tibbits + Marc Fornes of The Very Many - Partly Surface
Greg Lynn - New City
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