This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and
systemic development from the perspective of architectural design.
It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary
relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to
share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to
describe the city as a territory of self-organization.
Collecting together nearly a decade of design experiments by the
authors and their practice, ecoLogicStudio, the book discusses key
disciplinary definitions such as ecologic urbanism, algorithmic
architecture, bottom-up or tactical design, behavioural space and
the boundary of the natural and the artificial realms within the
city and architecture.
A new kind of "real-time world-city" is illustrated in the form
of an operational design manual for the assemblage of
proto-architectures, the incubation of proto-gardens and the coding
of proto-interfaces. These prototypes of machinic architecture
materialize as synthetic hybrids embedded with biological life
(proto-gardens), computational power, behavioural responsiveness
(cyber-gardens), spatial articulation (coMachines and fibrous
structures), remote sensing (FUNclouds), and communication
capabilities (Ecological Footprint Grotto).
Supporting the authors own essays and projects are contributions
from key innovators in contemporary architecture and urban design:
Michael Batty, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Michael Weinstock and Patrik
Schumacher.
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