(e)3: emergence . effect. environment
The Southern California Institute of Architecture gallery presented
(June 12 through July 13, 2003) an exhibition of work by architect Marta
Malé.
(E)3: Emergence.Effect.Environment is an installation, which explores
multiple dimensions of the concept of emergence, and the way new digital
technologies of design and fabrication interfere within the architectural
process. Associative parametric design is used to generate an interactive
and fluid model of an architectural surface or wall. In MaléÇs installation,
this adaptive environment åemergesÇ from relational data constructions,
and thereby operates at local and global scales simultaneously. This surface
- an assembly of differentiated parts - reflects the interaction of several
interconnected systems of information, which define not only its internal
logic, but also the effects of a contextual or environmental response.
Design and manufacturing, representation and object, whole and parts, digital
and material, merge in a parametric environment that accommodates notions
of adaptation through differentiation, and explores where mass-customization
and mass production intersect within architecture.