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Asynsis Dao of Design 230715
1. Form follows Flowâ¨
Dao of Design: in Nature and Culture
So what is Beauty in Time?
How does Nature Play with Geometry to Grow & Evolve?"
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2. Rivers & Global Flight Paths
A380
What do Flight paths, Aircraft sizes, & Rivers have in common? Form follows Flow
â˘âŻ Boeing 777: Shanghai â Hong Kong: 300+pax
â˘âŻ Airbus A380: Hong Kong â London: 555+pax
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The Designs we see in Nature & Culture are no Accident ââ¨
they Happen because they Increase access to Flow
Water Rivers People Rivers
3. Timeâs Arrow"
â˘âŻ Entropy â Disorder goes up over Time
â˘âŻ Local Entropy decreases by Export
â˘âŻ So Global Entropy overall still goes up
â˘âŻ That exported flow has Signatures
Complex Dynamical Systems? â¨
(like Life or Societies, People
Buildings or Cities)
2nd Law of Thermodynamics
4. Those signatures are Fractal"
Fractals are geometrical forms that express copies of themselves,
both up and down in scale, they can be living or non-living
Fractals are natureâs way to let heat do work most effectively,
to design forms that follow ever fitter, further flows
5. Fractal Flow Systems"
â˘âŻ Fractals are geometric echoes at varying scales and times
â˘âŻ Like a poem, a Bach musical fugue or a viral meme,
they are rhyming information relationships that balance order
and randomness, static and dynamic
6. Constructal law: Flow
Nature is elegant, likes the freedom to evolve (because itâs good for design) â
and likes to repeat herself at different scales
â˘âŻ âGiven freedom, for a finite-size system to persist in time (to live),
it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the
imposed currents that flow through it.â Adrian Bejan
â˘âŻ Constructal is a cross between âconstructionâ and âfractalâ â it
explains the thermodynamic (heat doing work), source or cause of
fractal geometry
7. Asynsis principle: Formâ¨âDesign in nature and culture emerges analogically, optimally from Entropyâ
â˘âŻ We can think of it as Optima: as the Golden Ratioâs signature in Time
â˘âŻ If Constructal law is the dancersâ performance, Asynsis hints at the music &
the choreography when at its most elegant and evocative
â˘âŻ Asynsis means âideasâ, âsynergyâ & âsynthesisâ
â˘âŻ (Good) Form follows (True) Flow, leading to More for Less, for Longer
8. Freer, Truer Flow, any Flow: of
Information, Energy, Mass or
Resources
Optima in Time:
Beauty in Space: Boticelliâs Venus"
Symmetry synergising
Simplexity
9. The Golden Ratio isâ¨
Form follows Flow in Action:â¨
itâs a beauty-bridge between Asynsis & Constructal
â˘âŻ Based on Unityâs (the number 1), uniquely self-similar relationship with itself, scaling up or
down over time
â˘âŻ Simplexity exemplified: expressing the complex, most simply and elegantly
â˘âŻ The geometric expression of the principle of least energy in space and time
â˘âŻ Also known as ÎŚ âPhiâ â short for Fibonacci, the Italian mathematician and his Phi-
related number series
10. Leonardoâs Divine Code?
â˘âŻ So Leonardo and all the others from Pythagoras, Euclid,
Plato, Kepler to Pacioli were right
â˘âŻ Einstein to Corbusier:
â âŚ.makes a difficult job,
more easyâ
11. Plant-Ecosystem Design
â˘âŻ Plants use the Golden ratio because it allows optimal strength to weight, wind-
stress distribution, flow of water-nutrients, exposure to air & sunlight plus growth
geometry â all for minimal energy, matter and resource cost
â˘âŻ Ecosystems like a forest or coral reef also use these growth geometries
â˘âŻ The message? Map them on to our civilisation if we are to survive in a similar
harmony with the biosphere - as well as a forest or coral reef synergises with
their environments
12. Optimal geometries: â¨
Penrose Tilings
â˘âŻ Infinite creativity from Finite quasi-periodic
geometries
â˘âŻ Regular, repeating but always Different
â˘âŻ Optimal balance between Order and Complexity â
facilitating Creative Computation
â˘âŻ Nature Playing with Complexity to solve Problems
13. Mandelbrot â Feigenbaum â Viral Phi
â˘âŻ Whatâs the time-geometry of self-similar Viral Memes?
â˘âŻ Two new iconic images of the Golden Ratio from Chaos theory
â˘âŻ Mandelbrot-set: higher dimensional geometric object with finite
area â but with a paradoxically infinite boundary
â˘âŻ Feigenbaum-diagram: population dynamics model
â˘âŻ Period 2 is lowest-energy dynamic period possible
Period 2
Period 2
14. â˘âŻ What does this mean? Optimal is Green
â˘âŻ To be unGreen is to be unBeautiful
â˘âŻ So â if being unGreen is unBeautiful â
then to be Green must be Beautiful
Optimal = Beautifulâ¨
Thatâs the Dao of Design"
16. Hong Kong Spin for West
Kowloon Cultural District
â˘âŻ Fusion Design â Wheel reinvented
â˘âŻ Eiffel Tower + London Eye hybrid
â˘âŻ Development Catalyst
17. Form follows FlowMore 4 Less
Optimal Structure:
Strength/weight ratio
Dynamic Tension & Compression:
Forces dynamically expressed
An Asynsis-Icon
Testbed for Green materials and technologies
Renewables Powered Carbon Offset
Original team: ARUP + Aedas
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19. So Li means the order of Qi flow, the wonderful dancing pattern of liquid, because Lao-tzu likens Tao to water: The great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right,
it loves and nourishes all things.
Alan Watts, Taoism
20. âŚand being LUCKYâ¨
â˘âŻ So (Li) Form follows (Qi) Constructal Flow
â˘âŻ Optimal = Ultimate Auspiciousness = Beauty
â˘âŻ Tai Tai: Chinese get that and have for 1000âs yearsâŚ
The Dao of Design: Form follows Flow
So Beauty abides wherever (Good) Form follows (True) Flow, itâs when Ideas & Resources
are best Synergised for the least Energy, & where Potential is most Realised
21. Arsenal: âRotations & Fluidityâ
Asynsis: Golden Ratio in Time
â˘âŻ Look at the circles in this background image and how
they change relative positions and sizes. Thatâs just
what creativity isâââplaying with permutations and
potentials to find the most ideal and fit for
purpose, allowing for design Evolution
22. ÂĄPlay makes H(e)y!
â˘âŻ Itâs built into the way the world works, from geometry
to nature, people and society. Itâs called Universality
and it works for everythingâŚincluding latest trends in
Football (so it must be true)! !
Geometries = Relationships
23. Ideal Geometries = Releasing Optimal Potential =
Adding Most Value
â˘âŻ Creativity is both divergent as well as
convergentâââand it yields moments that flip
modesâââor even keep both (or several), in
superposition, most easily â thatâs
experimentation, thatâs play
ÂĄ$Play makes Hay$!
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24. ÂĄPlay comes from
the Heart!
Health Fortune
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Gen YiQi
Shenti Xing
So Li means the order of Qi flow, the wonderful dancing pattern of liquid, because Lao-tzu likens the Tao to water:
The great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, and it loves and nourishes all things.
Alan Watts, Taoism
25. ÂĄPlay = Possibility!
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č˝Wan
Keneng
So how does Nature Play with Geometry to Grow & Evolve?"
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Via a glocal-savvy fusion of elegant geometries like the
golden ratio and daoist thinking, to yield a new Dao of
Design"
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