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New material systems emerge from the continuous feedback between Natural Model, Assembly Model and Synthetic Model. The emergent systems are tested on the site - Testing Ground - and optimized in their ability to adapt to multiple site pressures. The systems perform on a nano- and urban scale, and soon embrace building scales in between. Consistent language is used to discuss all performances.
3.5 Finer Mesh
Fine-tune the tools developed in 3.4 Site Mesh to record site pressures of immediate relevance to the Given Site located at Kent Avenue & North 7th in Williamsburg. Include in your study current and future site conditions between Kent Avenue and the waterfront. Generate a set of refined site meshes and discuss them in terms of your established system language. Select from the set your first Testing Ground.
3.6 Testing Ground
Augment the System's assembly intelligence while testing it on the Ground. The system grows to be more responsive to the Given Site conditions, as the role of the part to the whole, cell to lattice is further specified. The relationship that the unit establishes with its neighbors remains intact while the size and proportion of the units gradually changes across the field. The triangular cells of the Testing Ground (mesh) guide this change. Compare the system’s site responses to the responses of the corresponding Natural Model (SEM material). How does the system mediate between two different expressions; how does the system change density, how does it grow and shrink; how does the system come to an end, how does it meet an edge.
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