"CRYSTALLIZED FLORA"

Last semester, I explored the complex relations between culture and technology. I learned how these relationships influence how humans make and create art, technology, and architecture. For my final project for the class, I created a sculpture that explored how the transformation of wax could adapt to the movement and shape of an artificial flower. Through this evolution, I made a living organism of wax and flowers as the two mediums mirrored each other, resembling the natural phenomena of the advancement of the natural world or morphogenesis. Morphogenesis is the birth of forms in nature as well as in culture.

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Interestingly, this concept helps us understand how organisms are shaped and formed throughout their evolution and in their environments. We see how plants and animals grow in shape and size throughout their lifetimes. What stands out about this concept is the idea that nature has a set of plans of how living organisms will grow and eventually adapt to their changing environments. Relating this concept to the world of architecture, designers, engineers, and architects have had to adapt to their changing environments. As an architect, I want to explore how to design for an evolving environment by using concepts found in materials science and structural engineering. I would love to take this course to understand better how we, as designers and architects, can improve the design we create to be the best and most efficient design for the environment we are changing.