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.