http://www.globalsiteplans.com/environmental-design/the-metabolist-movement-adaptable-super-structures/ Branding for Architecture, Engineering, Environmental Non-Profits, Landscape Architecture, & Urban Planning Companies Fri, 24 May 2013 13:35:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.globalsiteplans.com/environmental-design/the-metabolist-movement-adaptable-super-structures/comment-page-1/#comment-9634 Jordan Meerdink Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:13:08 +0000 http://globalsiteplans.blogs.patsoffice.com/?p=2898#comment-9634 That is an interesting architectural experiment that I was not aware of.City planners have often attempted to create layouts that lend themselves to organic expansion as need presents itself.

]]> http://www.globalsiteplans.com/environmental-design/the-metabolist-movement-adaptable-super-structures/comment-page-1/#comment-9210 Jeff Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:19:27 +0000 http://globalsiteplans.blogs.patsoffice.com/?p=2898#comment-9210 Modern metabolism can be seen in the works of Greg Lin (though he would not claim to be a metabolist). In his rabid pursuit of “near-symmetry as is found in nature”, he attempts to find an architecture that acts and metabolizes as nature does, in other words the natural pattern is the main organizer for architectural space. Stepping away from the purely architectural, recent city planning efforts have attempted to mimic natural systems for traffic and pedestrian flow. A most fascinating example is planners who grew bacteria in a petri dish with a scale model of the city they were interested in to see where the bacteria made connections. According to biologists, bacteria will always utilize the most efficient path.

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