133
Notes:
1.
Rem Koolhaas
et
al, Elements,
Marsilio (Venice), 2014, back cover.
2.
‘Government Turns
to
Prefab
Buildings
to
Save Resources’,
China
Daily,
1
October 2016: www.
3.
Vanke,
2015 Annual Report:
4.
Stewart Brand,
How Buildings
Learn: What Happens After They’re
Built,
Viking (New York), 1994,
p
12.
8.
Stephen Wolfram,
A
New Kind
of
Science,
Wolfram Research
(Champaign, IL), 2002.
Text © 2017 John Wiley &
Sons Ltd. Images: pp 128,
130(b) © Andong Lu; p 129 ©
Liu Dongwei; p 130(t) © Zhu
Jingxiang; p 130(c) © OPEN
Architecture; p 132(t) © Li Biao;
p 132(b) © Zhong Huaying;
p 133 © Dou Pingping
therefore characterised by an intrinsic property of reversibility. On the issue of scalability, though
seemingly similar to the module mindset, it adopts
a
process more like pattern formation in nature.
Rather than placing subunits in
a
desired location following
a
designated sequence or composition,
