Anand Bhatt, ABA-NET: Composition Of The City

Composition Of The City

In opposition to the understanding of architecture as taxonomia, [or a habit of classifying ~and naming~ things], there exists an organic diagramme of forces: a mechanical-animal amongst the actualities of the architectural profession and the virtual-actualities of thinking about architecture. On the one hand, the building - a 'decomposition of bending moments or of flexions where numerical division is only the condition of morphogenetic movements'. On the other, the formation of an organism 'increasingly probable and natural when an infinity of intermediate states is given'. A multiplicity of connections may be formed in multiple ways, compounded at each stage. It is here, if ever, that a theory of architecture becomes tenable. In the principle of connectivity, a mathesis - by itself a flexical process. The data-space presented here is just a representation of our diagramme.

A City Machine

I am partial to the idea of a city as a corporate entity, not in the sense of a capitalist organisation but rather as an organism that ‘thinks’ with its body. A system shaped by the meeting of its arraignments or its folds with ‘outside’ world(s). A city that is organised as a system of causes that we must enclose, and enclose within. A machine that is enfolded within the city, like water in water. There is also a design incursion into A City Machine.

To Have - Spoken

Attempts towards new frameworks of urban design and analyses by correlating, in a seamless manner, the primary or the bodily with the 'rational' aspects of city design. And Benaras is a revelation! It still possesses moments of the first urbanisation. By the way of proof, imagine a void of the riverbank: of landscape between city and the river where the ghat is now. Imagine the river and the old wall whose delineation is still visible. Imagine the two as positives, and not the Ghats.