BI: the origin of architectural creativity_Ying-Chao Kuo_9781943532988_Oro Editions

Author: Ying-Chao Kuo

Format: Paperback | 338 pages

Dimensions: 211 x 211 x 35.56mm | 1,446g

Publication date: 24 Sep 2020

Nature doesn't necessarily mean
creativity, yet its diversity and beauty are stunning. We call the
mechanism behind this unintended creativity of nature 'BI' - Biological
Intelligence. The design and construction of a building is very much
like the creation of life. The intention of BI is to understand how life
is born, withers, born again, and to follow the principles of evolution
so architecture can also enter a sustainable cycle of design,
construct, operate, and disassemble and regenerated according to its new
condition.

The three categories: 'Origin', 'Form', and
'Interface' loosely resembles lives' condition of 'Habitat', 'Physical
Form' and 'Interaction with outside'. Each category contains three
modules; all the nine modules contain elements that architects have been
familiar with for thousands of years. They exist as nine toolboxes that
architects need and use during the design process - the creation of
architecture.

BI is a bigger box that
holds the nine boxes together. The same way as nature never intends to
create anything, most of architecture's great inventions aren't created
intentionally. Rather than boosting design creativity, the mechanism
introduced in this book proves to accompany architects strolling through
the maze of architecture, improving the creation of architecture
similarly to how nature creates itself.