NCTU & THU, Department of Architecture

Instructor: Borden Tseng
Project Name: Recombinant Complexity
Project Brief: Recombinant architecture is a radical re-questioning of the most fundamental programmatic assumptions about the logical affordances of built space. When both architecture and the bodies that inhabit it are themselves both organic and inorganic, when both are materially alive and not-alive, when the natures of both are understood as artificial and artifactual, the first premises of their interactions in space and over time are reopened.

Manuel De Landa, now teaching in the architecture and planning graduate school at Columbia, maps the promiscuous intraevolution of geologic, linguistic, biological and mechanical intelligences across multiple sites of intensification and convergence. Within De Landa’s transversal history of polyscalar incorporation, architecture becomes a site for the manifestation of multiple concurrent evolutionary vectors: semiotic, military, meteorological, and viral. This evolution of forms is realized by the differential interrelations of genetic replication and dynamic environments. The plural agencies of design are located across the two: in the incremental durations of singular life spans and in the limit trajectories of impact they have on the habitat. Environmental history persists - is translated and miniaturized- in both the genetic signatures of the traits for which it selects, and in the species-bodies animated by those same genetic signatures.

Project Site: 敦化南路二段(遠企旁停車場空地)

Cultural Entity
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Technology
Museum of Cinema

Hospitality Entity
Service Apartment
Boutique Hotel
Condominium

Commercial Entity
Eslite Bookstore
Muji Store
Apple Store

Dinning Entity
Starbucks Coffee
International Cuisine
Tea House

(Select one program from each entity for a recombinant combination)
(Each programmatic area requirement is to be determined)

Project Technology: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, AutoCAD, 3dMax, Sketch Up, Maya
Presentation Format: prints, power point, physical model
Reference: Elegance (Architectural Design) by Ali Rahim (Editor), Hina Jamelle (Editor)