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I am deeply curious into the forces of (human) nature and their manifestations through vascular systems in plants, humans, buildings, and cities.

Cranbrook Wellness Center

Human energy is allocated to intellectual and spiritual advancement as automatic and regenerative architectural forces modify the physical environment for basic comforts. As these needs are met, self-actualization on the individual scale occurs. By shifting the focus to ethereal issues, the physical world is not diminished, but enhanced through communicative systems and changing human roleplay in the physical world. Automatic architectural tasks support a systematic shift and are responsive to an ambiently intelligent information system. Architecture is a networked event in which existing (archaeological) structures will be penetrated and impregnated by ecoresponsive, sensurrounding, and cooperative structures.

This project was surveyed as a way to create a Wellness Center for the Cranbrook Campus while accommodating human renewal and energetic space. Integrative systems plug into campus-wide infrastructure and provide power and nutrition to physical life on both campus-wide and individual human scales. This nutrition arrives in a permeable and subatomic modus operandi which incorporates at least 5 dimensions to impact human ethereal behavior.

The carnal nature of the Wellness Center is based on studies of union between structure, program, and systems, configuring and analyzing the needs, outputs, and properties of each component, and figuring inlets and outlets which connect each need and and output to another, creating a system which may fluctuate in its own needs and outputs as a whole and as a part.