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self-organized city

_who: david o. wolthers_where: aarch_when: 2009_what: the project is based on an idea put forward by Robin Evans in his essay “An-Architecture”. instead of of strictly defining and thus limiting the use of a spatial organisation, Architects should generate fields consisting of different qualities that are then inhabited and defined through use. the sum-things pursued this interest by generating an urban organisation that is based on a relation of context and internal behavior.the urban organisation intents to incorporate different typologies and hierarchies of flow in order to generate a sustainable urban environment. this will oppose the segregated organisation of most post-industrial cities that see whole neighbourhoods die out because of monofunctional organisation.

self-organising biological systems have the ability to generate differentiated qualities and characteristics within themselves while at the same time react to outside stimuli. through case studies the sum-things defined a set of links between self-organised biological behavior and the properties of urban constituents such as infrastructure and building mass.

at building scale a fluent dispersal of flow is geneated throughout the buildings and the directionality of that flow informs the public space surrounding each building.