Hesaplanabİlİr Canlilik: Tange’Nİn Üsküp İçİn Mİmarİ Sİstemİ

Architects have looked at nature throughout time. Using models of biological systems as direct reference in designs is particularly common. Models are adapted to design mainly by either reproducing the existing forms or imitating the life processes of organisms. While the first is mimicry of form and its function, the latter constitutes a basis for systems of architecture. In 1960s, the Metabolist movement in architecture took interest in the organism as a life process and hypothesized an analogy between natural systems and architectural systems. Beyond a reference to form, Metabolist works declared a socio-political concern (Schalk, 2014). The architects of the movement imagined the formation and life of architectural systems to be similar to those of living organisms: architectural systems are supposed to be adaptable, changeable, growing and open-ended entities in continuous evolution where the final product is not complete.