Author : Mahmoud Zakaria Shafik
El-Temamy
Degree : M.Sc. Architecture
Title: Ecological Architecture by Morpho Ecological Design (MED)
Abstract
Sustainable and Ecological design
approach must be an essential target for several contemporary architects.
Hence, Morpho-Ecological Design (MED) approach by its central concept of
ecological design, and by utilizing morphogenetic strategies, it deals with
architecture as a material practice which is operated through the articulation
of spatial, material and energetic interventions within a specific context.
Accordingly, the architect’s responsibility is for identifying effective
parameters that affect on design decisions, and by integrating them through CAD
tools that are equipped with computational generative algorithms, these
algorithms depend on concept of processes of developing shape through the
interaction of system-intrinsic capacities and external environmental forces.
In addition, CAM and CAE tools do a vital role to bring out the full picture
that is not complete, but well integrated. Therefore, architects themselves
have to devote their thinking towards natural, biological, morphogenesis and
Ecological sciences, this is discussed through the part one with a new radical
way where ecology is understood as the relationship between an organism and its
environment. Here, the architects have to understand and explore the analogues
between architecture and nature for deepening their sustainable designs.
Subsequently, as a result of the integrating between architectural design
processes and biological strategies of producing their forms, the challenge of
formulating the theoretical concept of MED is a synthesized approach. This
approach is based on ensuing the feedback relation between material
interventions and environmental dynamics has been instrumentalised to serve the
purpose of a richly varied heterogeneous space, these spaces provide choices
for the individual and collective journeys of habitation that can also evolve
over time in tune with the dynamics that facilitate them. Proceeding from this
concept, the research through part two works on subject, environment, material
and space that represent the four major agents of the central conceptual
approach of MED so-called ’Performance-Oriented Design’ (POD). Accordingly, the
part three initiates the research by intensifying on MED as an applicable
approach for POD concept, which based on the cutting-edge softwares and
technologies that rely on computational and analytical generation tools, that
are used to unfold and simulate ’performative capacities’ inherent in ’Material
systems’ in relation to the specific ’environment’. This is explored through
several cases that emphasis on the concept of heterogeneous spaces, one of them
is the main case study, Riyad J. Al Joucka and Jack C. Francis’s Hybrid
BIO-Structure (HYBIOS) Project that is proposed for Middle East generally and
Jordan specifically as an area of application.
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