Lexicon 1.6 Recycling Recycling

HOUSE:

Usually it means the object which provides the living space for human body. However I would like to argue it is a place which support and provide shelter for our sensations. For instance, in terms of olfactory, we can prevent smelly smell by closing window, in terms of sight, we can control light by louvers or lighting system. With modern technology, human senses extends greatly and the house need to be reconsidered how to provide shelter and support our extended sensations nowadays.

EXTEND:

Extend is not just simply making the range of something bigger or wider. It is about after the ranges of a set of objects gets bigger and wider, their ranges get overlapped at some points. In this way they contact each other and form a bigger network. Therefore extend reach the effect that 1+1>2. Extend is not about a single object, it is about the action of a system.

Lexicon 1.5 A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

HISTORY:

A network of events which has passed.

NON-LINEAR:

Literally, it means not linear. If something is not only caused by another thing, but caused by the comprehensive effects of a series objects, then the system they compose is non-linear. The objects in the system are in the networks and can affect each other.

Lexicon 1.4 Air/Condition

ICONOCLASM:

Attacking belief which is accepted by most people. Usually iconoclasm is about emancipate a suppressed and “negative” opinion from the positive well-accepted one. Here I see the negative and positive as two opponent of a comprehensive entity.

EMANCIPATE:

To release something. It is not to produce something new, but to get suppressed or hidden objects to the public.

Lexicon 1.3 Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes

LANDSCAPE:

landscape should be not only about the beautiful perspectives of certain locations, but also should be performative, which means, besides the appearance of this area, we can change much deeper and influential features of that area, such as the economy, ecology, customs of the nearby neighborhoods and so on by landscape.

PERFORMATIVE:

if an object or a system can intrigue or be instrumental to a process, then it is performative.

Lexicon 1.2 A Tour of The Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey

ENTROPY:

It describes the sequence of an object. The more disorder, the bigger entropy.

Eternity:

In Asian philosophy, eternity means never die, if something can last forever, then it reach eternity.

In western philosophy, eternity transcend the time, it is not about forever, because forever is a concept of time, but eternity is outside of the concept of time.

Lexicon 1.1 "Wildness"

LAISSEZ-FAIRE:
Laissez-Faire is not to interfere the development of something, its aim is to let the subject to develop according to its own intrinsic rules. There is a similar thought in China which was raised by Lao-tzu around 500 BC and this thought becomes the main thought of Taoism. This thought in Taoism is to say that we should to govern something by doing nothing that goes against its nature. Therefore when we design the building or landscape, shall we control all the circulation, do all the partition of function and other decision for the users according to our analysis? Or shall we just build up a flexible frame, let the users to develop and let the building to evolve by itself?


EVOLVE:
Evolve is to describe the process of something’s growth and development. Like the evolution in the biology, evolve here should emphasize that the main reason of the evolutions should be from the outside environment. For the creatures, the environment changes, and the creature change accordingly, for a building, the users change or their habits change, the building change accordingly. Therefore evolve is never a process which starts arbitrarily from the inside of the subject, it should start from the environment in which the subject lives.

Lastest development of my WTC Towers

Here is the latest development of my WTC towers. I used 3 floors to model each tower instead of two, therefore the shape of each tower can be zigzag instead of straight tube.

And there is a problem. Why there is such a warning when I try to modify the sketch although it seems that I can ignore.