Xochitl_Anna "Animate form", Greg Lynn

• Animation implies the evolution of form and its shaping forces, while motion implies movement and action
• Design space conceived as an environment of force and motion
• The forms of a dynamically conceived architecture may be shaped in association with the virtual motion and force
• Topology allows for not just the incorporation of a single moment but rather a multiplicity of vectors, and therefore, a multiplicity of times, in a single continuous surface

• Contemporary animation and special-effects software are just now being introduced as tools for design rather than as devices for rendering, visualization and imaging
• Animate design is defined by the co-presence of motion and force at the moment of formal conception

Topology (from the Greek τόπος, “place”, and λόγος, “study”) is a major area of mathematics concerned with the most basic properties of space, such as connectedness. Topology studies properties that are preserved under continuous deformations, including stretching and bending, but not tearing or gluing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology

Möbius strips, which have only one surface and one edge, are a kind of object studied in topology.




A three-dimensional depiction of a thickened trefoil knot, the simplest non-trivial knot

Admirant Entrance Building, 2010 The Netherlands, Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

http://www.fuksas.it/#/progetti/0506/