Constructing agency 2018-2020

flux

Studio Theodore Spyropoulos

Tutor Mostafa El-Sayed, Apostolos Despotidis

Team Ege Acar (Turkey), Kemal Arda Alkin (Turkey), Qing Li (China), Salih Ege Savci (Turkey)

Today’s culture is shifting in relation with emergent technology. As new digital-technological inventions change how we operate in the world, our habits, methods of accomplishing things and how we think constantly modifies. Our understanding of the world shifts as we create new methodologies, mediums and results with our enhanced tools. In order for architecture to function in this era, it has to be fed and thought about within the culture it is designed for. The finite and fixed methods that defined architecture as precise space are now insufficient. Architecture must leave its incapability to change. Architecture must be part of a combination of systems that offer more than a space, as it is everything. To be integrated within the complexity and dynamism of urban space, architecture must be constructed as an infrastructure; a network of many systems interwoven.

Flux is a behavioural unit-based space-system that aims to achieve the specific needs of any context at the given time. The features of the space are based on the event, reason of use and user, and time-based environmental conditions. The proposal is a contemporary interpretation of the space-frame which challenges the existing model by introducing flexibility to the system with transformative, autonomous and hybrid units. Rule-based organisation between these agents(units), enables it to become a generative structural volumetric framing strategy. Material behaviour is the core of all performance and function of the unit. The variety of rigidity levels helps the system continue its ‘soft’ features. It can morph, and change, it can stay and keep static. Mechanisms of interconnected and interrelated communicative networks feed each other for evolutionary features. Self-conscious and self-learning capacities of singular modules create a whole brain for the system to operate infinitely, under dynamic and intelligent control system. The new architectural model learns, adapts, survives and functions.