Future House(s):Genealogy: Embryological House

Embryological house is speculated to be strategized for current brand identity, variation, customization, continuity, flexible manufacturing and assembly issues in domestic architecture. It explores the geometric limits that manifest endless variations within the same spatial system. In other words redefines the manifestation process of form containing a standard regulating process or containing a set of value parameters common to each outcome, yet fabricating unique with unlimited iterations. Mario Carpo terms it “non-standard seriality”. The variation occurs in the relationship between the generic envelope of a potential shape, alignment, adjacency and size between a fixed collection of elements.

The variations of the embryological house seemingly comes from adaptation to lifestyle, style, climate and construction methods, materials effects, functional need and aesthetic effects. There is no ideal or original Embryological house, as perfection is achieved in each mutation in its various prototyping.

Embryological house being a vital, evolving, biological model of construction, this differs with the modern part design and mechanical construction. (A more natural mode of fabrication)

Metaphorically embryological use of mammalian like morphology and allegorical genetic process, allows its consideration as genetic architecture. This prototype house is a topologically symmetrical pure sphere. A curve duplicated 12 times. Focus on massing. The design is parametrically controlled with 12 points.

Contained by a unified Singularity. Its body is considered a machine.

Variation = Mutations than evolutionary biological?

“algorithmically defined fixed genera and endlessly morphing species” Mario Carpo.

• rethink the idea of house typology beyond the modernist "kit of parts" model to an organic, flexible, genetic/generic prototype from which an infinite number of iterations can be generated;

• extend the interplay of "generic" and "variation" implied in this rethinking to notions of product "branding" and the satisfaction of individual desire through consumer-specific, unique versions of the product;

• push the capabilities of existing automated manufacturing technologies for the production of non-standard architectural forms.

The creation of the physical models is dependent on the digital files, which are sensitive to technological changes. In addition, the digital work associated with this project spans a considerable period, and there are a number of generational differences in the various software applications used. Migration of the Embryological House files entails a risk of losing certain information. Even if some properties can be conserved, the migration of a file can necessitate a rewrite that differs vastly from the original format.