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evolved spatial topography

_who: thomas t. jensen+david o. wolthers_where: the sum-things_when:2009_what: The Evolved Spatial Topography project is an attempt to rethink sustainability in urban buildings, generate a diverse spatial organization and evolve the architectural process of form finding by which our cities are to be populated by buildings in the future.

In the proposal for a development of an urban site, the sum-things focused on multi functionality and sustainability. Sustainability can be viewed as multi functional use of space over time. The idea was that a given space can be inhabited by different functions over time instead of being demolished or refurbished to suite a new function. In other words, instead of designing spaces with specific qualities to suite certain functions, the project generates a field of differentiated spatial qualities that are open to inhabitation by functions with corresponding spatial demands. Since we today are not in a position to describe the demands of future users, sustainability can be achieved by generating a gradient, diverse and differentiated spatial organization that in theory, at least, is multi functional.