Sharing the #Asynsis principle last Fri June 2016 @ UniLab Shanghai with our #Disney, #SciArc, China Academy of Art, E-Grow and #Gehry Technologies friends - now http://www.neuni-lab.com/?lang=en
http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIzNzE4OTQ3NA%3D%3D&mid=2649408862&idx=1&sn=77cc488498d59c59bf7d7425b9b2779e&scene=1&srcid=0616Dm9s73X5jSPy8xnnA0gm&from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0
https://www.facebook.com/HKEcoLivable
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/09/18/can-hong-kong-lead-the-way-in-asia-to-a-sustainable-future/
http://www.scoop.it/t/asynsis-principle-constructal-law
https://medium.com/@ASYNSIS
4. Leonardo’s Divine Code?
• So Leonardo and all the others from Pythagoras, Euclid,
Plato, Kepler to Pacioli were right
• This is a fundamental, optimal geometry of nature and of
how it self-designs and evolves sustainably and resiliently
whilst also best generating complexity – in both space and
as we now see with Asynsis dynamical symmetries,
all for the lowest energy, in time
• Plant growth & design is a good example
• Einstein to Corb, “ …difficult job more easy”
• Also, as universality – works for football!
38. Ideal Geometries = Releasing Optimal Potential =
Adding Most Value
Craft Best Connects & Constructs with Curated
Play – it’s Nature’s Way,
her Dao of Design
¡Play makes Hay!
40. ¡Play makes H(e)y!
• It’s built into the way the world works, from geometry
to nature, people and society. It’s called Universality
and it works for everything…including (Total) Football
(so it must be true)! "
Geometries = Relationships
41. Form follows Flow
Dao of Design: in Nature and Culture
So what is Beauty in Time?
So what is Beauty & Sustainability in Space & Time? "
How does Nature Play with Geometry to Evolve & Grow?"
Why does it matter? "
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42. Glaciers & Global Flight Paths
• Boeing 777: Shanghai – Hong Kong: 300+pax
• Airbus A380: Hong Kong – London: 555+pax
A380
What do Flight paths, Aircraft sizes, & Glaciers have in common? Form follows Flow
A380
777
777
The Designs we see in Nature & Culture are no Accident –
they Happen because they Increase access to Flow
Ice Rivers People Rivers
43. Fractal Flow Systems"
• Fractals are geometric echoes at varying scales and times
• Geometry is the “relationship of relationships”
• Fractals are analogically optimal geometry,
like the coastline of Britain
• Like a poem, a Bach fugue or a viral meme,
they are rhyming information relationships
44. Time’s Arrow"
• Entropy – Disorder goes up over Time
• Local Entropy decreases by Export
• So Global Entropy overall still goes up
& that exported flow has Signatures
Complex Dynamical Systems?
(like Life or Societies, People
Buildings or Cities)
2nd Law of Thermodynamics
45. 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 nature’s way to let heat do work most effectively,
to design forms that follow ever fitter, further flows
46. Constructal law: Flow
Nature is elegant, likes the freedom to evolve (because it’s good for design) –
and likes to repeat herself at different scales
• “Given 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.” Adrian Bejan
• Constructal is a cross between construction and fractal – it
explains the thermodynamic (heat doing work), source or cause of
fractal geometry
47. Asynsis principle: Form “Design in nature, consciousness and culture emerges analogically, optimally from Entropy”
• We can think of it as Optima: as the Golden Ratio’s signature in Time
• If Constructal law is the dancers’ performance, Asynsis hints at the score &
their choreography
• Asynsis is a confluence of “asymptotic” “synergy” & “synthesis
• (Good) Form follows (True) Flow, leading to More for Less, for Longer
48. Freer, Truer Flow, any
Flow: of Information,
Energy, Mass or
Resources
Optima in Time:
• Optima as ideal processes in 4D, over Time, lead to ideal
Beauty in Space in 3D, as states
• They synergise Simplexity - revealing: “…simplicity as the
ultimate sophistication, that beauty is truth & truth is beauty.”
Beauty in Space: Boticelli’s Venus"
49. The Golden Ratio is
Form follows Flow in Action:
it’s a beauty-bridge between Asynsis & Constructal
• Based on Unity’s uniquely self-similar relationship with itself, scaling up or down
• Simplexity exemplified: expressing the complex, most simply and elegantly
• The geometric expression of the principle of least energy in space and time
• It’s a primordial, archetypal fractal and iterated over time, an optimal feedback loop
that allow systems to modularise, persist for longer, to self-organise and complexify,
to synergise simplexity
• So its geometry exemplifies sustainability
50. Arsenal: “Rotations & Fluidity”
• Look at the circles in this background image and how
they change relative positions and sizes. That’s just
what creativity is — playing with permutations and
potentials to find the most ideal and fit for
purpose
51. Leonardo’s Divine Code?
• So Leonardo and all the others from Pythagoras, Euclid,
Plato, Kepler to Pacioli were right
• This is a fundamental, optimal geometry of nature and of
how it self-designs and evolves sustainably and resiliently
whilst also generating complexity – in both space and as
we now see with Asynsis dynamical symmetries,
also for the lowest energy, in time
• Plant growth & design is a good example
• Einstein to Corb, “ …difficult job more easy”
52. Plant-Ecosystem Design
• 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 – all for minimal energy, matter and resource cost
• Ecosystems like a forest or coral reef also use these growth geometries
• 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
53. Optimal geometries:
Penrose Tilings
• Infinite creativity from Finite quasi-periodic geometries
• Regular, repeating but always Different
• Optimal balance between Order and Complexity –
facilitating Creative Computation
• Nature Playing with Complexity to solve Problems
54. Mandelbrot – Feigenbaum – Viral Phi
• What’s the time-geometry of self-similar Viral Videos?
• Two new iconic images of the Golden Ratio from Chaos theory
• Mandelbrot-set: higher dimensional geometric object with finite area
– but with a paradoxically infinite boundary
• Feigenbaum-diagram: population dynamics model
• Period 2 is lowest-energy dynamic period possible
Period 2
Period 2
55. Optimal = Beautiful
That’s the Dao of Design"
• What does this mean? Optimal is Green
• To be unGreen is to be unBeautiful
• So – if being unGreen is unBeautiful –
then to be Green must be Beautiful
57. Hong Kong Spin for West
Kowloon Cultural District
via Hong Kong EcoLivable City Initiative
• Fusion Design – Wheel reinvented
• Eiffel Tower + London Eye hybrid
• Development Catalyst
58. An Asynsis-Icon
Form follows FlowMore 4 Less
Optimal Structure:
Strength/weight ratio
Dynamic Tension & Compression:
Forces dynamically expressed
Testbed for Green materials and technologies
Renewables Powered Carbon Offset
Original team: ARUP + Aedas
59.
60. 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
61. …and being LUCKY
• So (Li) Asynsis Form follows (Qi) Constructal Flow
• Optimal = Ultimate Auspiciousness = Beauty
• Tai Tai: Chinese get that and have for 1000’s years…
The Dao of Design: Form follows Flow
So Beauty abides wherever (Good) Form follows (True) Flow, it’s when Ideas & Resources
are best Synergised for the least Energy, & where Potential is most Realised
62. Ideal Geometries = Releasing Optimal Potential =
Adding Most Value
• Creativity is both divergent as well as
convergent — and it yields moments that flip
modes — or even keep both (or several), in
superposition, most easily
¡Play makes Hay!