CEPT University Assignment 1

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ACP CLAD TRADITIONAL TRADITIONAL SURVIVAL STRATEGY: NEED BASED APPENDAGE / ALTERATION FAILURE OF SURVIVAL: VOID SURVIVAL THROUGH EQUILIBRIUM PUBLIC SPACE COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIAL TRADITIONAL RESIDENTIAL REBUILT REBUILT ORGANIZED CHAOS POL HOUSING TIME NEED EQUILIBRIUM GENERATIVE SYSTEM INFIL SELF ORGANIZATION MARKET LED ECONOMY EVOLUTION COMMUNAL VIOLENCE EARTHQUAKE CONFLICT ORGANIC GROWTH DOMINANCE SURVIVAL MUTUALISM IN A SOCIAL EQUILIBRIUM BY: PA100915 FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE CEPT UNIVERSITY ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND CULTURAL SEGREGATION AROUND THE CALICO SHOP ARE CONCURRENTLY A RESULTANT OF AN UNSELFCONSCIOUS GROWTH PROCESS. A PROCESS TRIGGERED BY NEED, CATALYZED BY TIME THUS CREATING A SYMBIOTIC RELATION BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW. IT DEMONSTRATES A SOCIAL HOLISM DESPITE OF HAVING PLURALITY IN CHARACTER. THE PATTERN IN THE URBAN FABRIC OF THE AREA SHOWS A RESEMBLANCE WITH DARWINIAN THEORIES OF EVOLUTION. THE PROMINACE IN NON-CONSTANCY OF ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER, DESCENT OF NEW CHARACTER FROM PREVIOUS CHARACTER, NON-DISCONTINUITY IN CHARACTER AND DIVERSITY IN THE PRESENT DAY ARCHITECTURAL SCENARIO HAS LED THE ADJACENT AREA OF THE CALICO DOME TO SURVIVE THROUGH ALL SORTS OF ODDS, SIMILAR TO ‘SURVIVAL OF FITTEST’ IN THE NATURAL SELECTION. “ SYSTEMS, NOTABLY CITIES, GROW AND DEVELOP AND, IN GENERAL, EVOLVE. CLEARLY, THIS CONCEPT IS CONTINGENT UPON THE FUNCTIONALIST / MUTUALIST HYPOTHESIS (WITHOUT WHICH IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE IN WHAT SENSE THE SYSTEM ITSELF DOES GROW), THOUGH THE DEPENDENCY IS OFTEN UNSTATED.” - PASK, GORDON. ‘THE ARCHITECTURAL RELEVANCE OF CYBERNATICS’, AD READER: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN THINKING, JOHN WILEY & SONS, LONDON, 2011

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ACP CLAD TRADITIONAL TRADITIONAL

SURVIVAL STRATEGY:NEED BASED

APPENDAGE / ALTERATION

FAILURE OF SURVIVAL:VOID

SURVIVAL THROUGHEQUILIBRIUM

PUBLIC SPACE COMMERCIAL COMMERCIALRESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIALTRADITIONAL

RESIDENTIALREBUILTREBUILT

ORGANIZED CHAOS

POL HOUSINGTIME

NEEDEQUILIBRIUM

GENERATIVE SYSTEM

INFIL

SELF ORGANIZATION

MARKET LED ECONOMYEVOLUTION

COMMUNAL VIOLENCEEARTHQUAKE

CONFLICTORGANIC GROWTH

DOMINANCESURVIVAL

MUTUALISM

IN A SOCIAL EQUILIBRIUM

BY: P

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ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND CULTURAL SEGREGATION AROUND THE CALICO SHOP ARE CONCURRENTLY A RESULTANT OF AN UNSELFCONSCIOUS

GROWTH PROCESS. A PROCESS TRIGGERED BY NEED, CATALYZED BY TIME THUS CREATING A SYMBIOTIC RELATION

BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW.

IT DEMONSTRATES A SOCIAL HOLISM DESPITE OF HAVING PLURALITY IN CHARACTER.

THE PATTERN IN THE URBAN FABRIC OF THE AREA SHOWS A RESEMBLANCE WITH DARWINIAN THEORIES OF EVOLUTION.

THE PROMINACE IN NON-CONSTANCY OF ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER, DESCENT OF NEW CHARACTER FROM

PREVIOUS CHARACTER, NON-DISCONTINUITY IN CHARACTER AND DIVERSITY IN THE PRESENT DAY ARCHITECTURAL

SCENARIO HAS LED THE ADJACENT AREA OF THE CALICO DOME TO SURVIVE THROUGH ALL SORTS OF ODDS, SIMILAR

TO ‘SURVIVAL OF FITTEST’ IN THE NATURAL SELECTION.

“ SYSTEMS, NOTABLY CITIES, GROW AND DEVELOP AND, IN GENERAL, EVOLVE. CLEARLY, THIS CONCEPT IS CONTINGENT

UPON THE FUNCTIONALIST / MUTUALIST HYPOTHESIS (WITHOUT WHICH IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE IN WHAT SENSE

THE SYSTEM ITSELF DOES GROW), THOUGH THE DEPENDENCY IS OFTEN UNSTATED.”

- PASK, GORDON. ‘THE ARCHITECTURAL RELEVANCE OF CYBERNATICS’, AD READER: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN THINKING, JOHN WILEY & SONS, LONDON, 2011