COMBINATORY

+[Combinatory System Workshop] Los Angeles _ 2020

SCI_Arc EDGE + The NOW Institute 

Program Coordinator: Thom Mayne

Instructor: Thom Mayne + Eui-Sung Yi + Daniel Pruske + Kerenza Harris

Program Faculty: Karen Lohrmann

Combinatory studies is an abstract subjective and intuitive process within a methodology. It applies operational strategies in an abstract notion to bring innovative new conditions and ideas that are transferable to other languages. The outcome is not singular, it's an open-ended system of iterations. The study starts with a surface analysis procedure as a departure point that generates innovative regimes in digital space. By additive and subtractive operations, simple primitives (points, lines, surfaces, volumes) transform into complex relationships. The outcomes are representations of multiple artifacts that start with simplicity to organize complex topologies that could explore coherence in design.