MANifold ECOlogies

MANifold ECOlogies is a Design Studio that will explore the potentials of the digital craft for the generation of housing as dynamic organizational structures on the urban and architectural scale.


MANifold ECOlogies seeks to create hybrid organizational structures that propose new exciting spatial environments for dwelling through selected additional programs geared towards leisure, work and social functions. Their features and services such as innovative materiality and structure, synergetic flexible programmatic densities and efficient infrastructure optimize activities and network flows and make it a place of attraction, power and ultimate performance.
The interactive digital communication network offers unprecedented potential to participate in the global economy. The accelerating speed to congregate and exchange with others requires to enhance existing physical interfaces in order to adapt to new typologies of virtual contexts. New configurations are evolving to merge physical space and virtual environments. To respond to today’s velocity, cities will grow into multiplicities of networks.
“Work” and its traditional (Euclidian-generic office block honeycombed with cubicles) enclosures, its spatial frontiers of normative office-typologies will be fragmented, liquefied and radically redefined. Business will be unleashed from the constraints of traditional environments. Life-long learning will join as a continuous educational process.
By the same token the dynamism of new living-forms will search for structures that are malleable enough to adapt to the individual’s thought on life-style, desires and urban living in the 21st century. A new living system is created where the inhabitant and the environment are virtual parts of a dynamical system in constant evolution.
Architecture will no more deal with the planning of time-less permanent projects but temporary expressions of expanded visions which deny any kind of static barriers in order to keep up with the fast pace of global developments. Space will be given the added dimension of time.