Constructing Nature

thom-mayne-founder-of-morphosis-has-also-always-maintained-his-own-artistic-practice-which-is-evident-in-his-architectural-drawings-constantly-animated-by-a-quest-for-compositional-dynamism-and-obviously-inspired-by-the-combinatorial-forms-that-make-up-urban-environments-this-practice-soon-embraced-the-possibilities-offered-by-the-computer-among-the-architects-personal-creations-are-sculptural-panels-called-drawdels-where-lines-points-and-surfaces-are-expressed-in-three-dimensions-in-hollows-and-volumes-in-superimposed-layers-abstract-compositions-with-an-aesthetic-derived-from-the-master-plan-massive-works-of-art-nourished-by-years-of-reflection-on-the-organization-of-space-in-2014-morphosis-was-invited-to-take-part-in-a-competition-for-the-master-plan-for-an-urban-park-in-the-huilongguan-district-north-of-beijing-confronted-with-the-blank-slate-that-had-been-created-on-the-plot-thom-mayne-came-up-with-the-idea-of-taking-one-of-his-drawdels-as-a-starting-point-decades-of-reflection-on-volumes-lines-and-surfaces-that-make-up-a-city-were-to-replace-the-tabula-rasa-and-tend-to-it-the-team-projected-the-program-for-the-proposed-park-onto-the-drawdel-rendering-and-using-morphing-techniques-generated-a-result-specific-to-the-site-which-the-designers-then-refined-and-so-was-born-the-master-plan-of-the-huilongguan-urban-park-demonstrating-thom-maynes-constant-back-and-forth-between-the-artistic-work-and-the-architectural-project-this-animation-shows-the-transition-from-artwork-to-master-plan-the-evolution-of-the-project-over-time