Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Marcos Novak

Liquid architectures. Really good article here.
"I became curious about living
membranes and skins as architecture. Modelled on the
structure of the skeleton and the circulatory and nervous systems, most architecture is based on hierarchies of lines leading to nodes, a system which is ill-suited to provide ubiquitous services".
The image to the right shows some of his work concerning echinoderms and exoskeletons.
echinoderms are simple animals lacking brains and complex sensing organs, they also have a radial symmetry instead of bilateral like humans and mammals.


I like how he has made alien looking shapes based on organic creatures. His work looks futuristic and i love the 3D shapes that look random but aren't.