Growth, Emergence, Bricolage

Growth emergence and bricolage share the same foundamental ground, which is adding up. While they are having different ideas of adding up.

Growth is the word used in biology, for the sicence student like me, which has the idea of increasing the populations of cell in a human body, when the word growth used means that the cells inside the body try to reproduce the more cells in the body which can be simply concluded like one mother cell is divded into two daugther cells. If there are no other influnce from the external media then the cells will stay identical and giving the same functions. If we put this word in the architecture field we can understand that if we claimed to give the growth of a university campus we are going to duplicate the some buildings and reproduce more identical buildings in the site to expand the functions. For example: We are giving a growth for the faculty of science, means that we are going to build one more scientific building for the faculty which is identical to the original one having the identical functions, layout and outlook.

Emergence, known as the development of a complex system, usually the system is built up from the elemental components in the system, some times tracable sometimes not. The term bottom-up described the process for us that the system is actaully start from the bottom level. From book of Steven Johson, he described the system of the ant habitant as a kind of emergence. The queen ant actually is not the ruler of the whole ant hole, while the system and the habitat is built up carefully by different species of ants. While the queen ant is being protected not because the queen gave the order while because the other ants know that she is the most important, for the reason she controls the birth of the ants.

Bricoalge, a word which usually mentioned as 'Do-it-yourself'. Some artists use this idea for the adding up idea for the collection of garbage. Adding up the things which are not useful and make it into a piece of arts.

Adding-up, increasing in number or building up a systems are the common ground of these three words while the result is totally different.













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Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/Samuel_Bak/Samuel_Bak__Gallery_III_/Bricolage.JPG
http://www.effervescence.co.uk/gallery2/g2e.html
http://www.mrothery.co.uk/module8/notes/A2%20Option%20Module%208%20notes.htm