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\u201cEmergent Grid\u201d: A Conversation with Toyo Ito<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Copyright Peter Macapia 2006<\/span><\/p>\n English Translation, Fumie Yamanaka and Daisuke Nagatomo<\/span><\/p>\n Photographs, Daisuke Hirose<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Introduction<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEmergent grid.\u201d This is a phrase Toyo Ito uses to describe the geometrical character of his recent work. <\/span>It is one of the most important notions in characterizing the developments of late 20th<\/sup> and early 21st<\/sup> century architecture and its relation to engineering and structure. <\/span>Geometry is an internal quality of structure. But in what sense is its pattern something already given? <\/span>Consider Mies and Gaudi. <\/span>Both modulate structural geometry. <\/span>In Mies, this is defined by standardized dimensions and ideal proportions (and it is rectilinear). <\/span>In Gaudi, it is derived from the behavior of matter, from funicular chains rather than imposed. <\/span>These strategies point in opposite directions — of which one variant is the Greek trabeated system versus the Gothic vault. No one has yet split the difference, except Toyo Ito. <\/span>The Brugge Pavilion, the Serpentine Pavilion, Todd\u2019s, Mikimoto, etc.: these buildings have intense patterns. <\/span>That\u2019s the first thing that strikes me. <\/span>The second is that each is very different in its structural innovation with regard to an unpredictable geometry. <\/span>But there is a third and it this: the structure is constantly shifting. <\/span>These features underscore a new relationship between pattern, geometry, and structure. <\/span>This is where fluids come in. <\/span>In the early nineties Ito wrote \u201cOn Fluid Architecture\u201d in which he wanted to move beyond the history of architecture as static form, as idealized and conceptualized geometry. <\/span>The mere suggestion of fluids introduces a unique perspective towards structure: architecture as an intense geometrical development of matter. Now between pattern and form, there is an incredible competition — patterns have infinite extension and form is bounded object — and between them Ito has found a way to establish an incredible \u201cecology.\u201d It is a formidable challenge to the history of geometry in architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Peter Macapia <\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m interested in how you\u2019ve developed geometry over the last 10 years. <\/span>Your buildings and your process are consistent in many ways but especially in this: there is a constant exploration of the modulation and continuity of structure.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Toyo Ito<\/span><\/p>\n I have been interested [for many years] in getting design inspiration from the phenomena of fluids, of things moving. In the 90\u2019s I designed or composed with pure geometrical shapes. For example, I would connect several points of one part of a geometrical shape with another. <\/span>I used simple geometrical shapes was because I was always having difficulty with structural simulations. However, since 2000, I have been using advanced structural analysis tools. We can simulate not only regular geometrical forms, but any surface with computers. <\/span>These tools allow me to figure out problems and modify them until I find an appropriate structure. <\/span>At the same time, as a designer in this process, it is difficult to choose between a structure \u201cA\u201d and a structure \u201cB\u201d because there is no specific reason I have to pick between those two. So, at this moment, I am still trying to find the \u201crules\u201d to create \u201cform.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Macapia<\/span><\/p>\n Do you mean that in the shift away from geometrical forms and solids \u2013 what you call shapes — you are looking at \u201crules\u201d for a particular logic of organization, for example the continued emphasis on things like grids? <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Ito <\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if it is logic or not. <\/span>[Ito goes to get analytical model]<\/span><\/p>\n In this experiment, I was especially interested in creating complex geometry out of a simple grid. I attempted to control the grid according to the programs by changing the scale and create three-dimensional surfaces [here Ito raises the top grid of the model which is connected to a lower grid by a sheet of mesh, then the mesh distorts into a complex three dimensional grid that connects regular two dimensional grids of the top and bottom] . I\u2019m not sure it is logic that I am looking for . . .The [complex] three dimensional grid is the result of an experiment with the simple grid for the structural system \u2013I would call that system an emerging grid.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEmergent Grid\u201d: A Conversation with Toyo Ito Copyright Peter Macapia 2006 English Translation, Fumie Yamanaka and Daisuke Nagatomo Photographs, Daisuke Hirose Introduction \u201cEmergent grid.\u201d This is a phrase Toyo Ito uses to describe the geometrical character of his recent work. 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