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Play of contrasts - 0 views

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    Multi-disciplinary design firm, @cluster-one-creative-solutions designs a stand-out abode spanning 3250 sq. ft. in Chandrapur, where a tasteful play of design, patterns, colours and materials that stand out in a neutral envelope, following a theme of contrasts. Read on to know more….
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A simply luxuriant home! - 0 views

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    Interior design studio Gönye Proje Tasarım designs a luxurious home in Istanbul using a play of materials. The crux of the design lies in its detailing. Check out the project here…
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Natural light and earthy materials take centre stage in this temperate Vadodara home - 0 views

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    Designed by the eminent Studio Yamini, this breezy Vadodara penthouse uses abundant natural light and a muted, earthy material palette to create a gorgeously minimal and understated ambience set against warm, inviting hues. http://bit.ly/StudioYamini-IAnD
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Material Play - 0 views

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    Why do designers fall back on the tried and tested for timelessness? Read about this simple chic home in Mumbai and enlighten us with your views…
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When cultural undercurrents tailor a global design language - 0 views

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    Interior designer Saheba Singh of This Is It Designs Pvt. Ltd. focuses on underplaying cultural nuances, materials and colours to create a chic bar and lounge in Tokyo. Check out how she ensures veiled Indianness to seep through…
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Sumessh Menon's material stories! - 0 views

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    Endorsng his signature style of weaving unexpected materials into a 'wow' fabric, Ar. Sumessh Menon carves out another new fine dine interior in Mumbai, India
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Complexity Rising: From Human Beings to Human Civilization, a Complexity Profile by Yan... - 0 views

  • This article analyzes the human social environment using the "complexity profile," a mathematical tool for characterizing the collective behavior of a system. The analysis is used to justify the qualitative observation that complexity of existence has increased and is increasing. The increase in complexity is directly related to sweeping changes in the structure and dynamics of human civilizationthe increasing interdependence of the global economic and social system and the instabilities of dictatorships, communism and corporate hierarchies. Our complex social environment is consistent with identifying global human civilization as an organism capable of complex behavior that protects its components (us) and which should be capable of responding effectively to complex environmental demands.
  • What is generally not recognized is that the relationship between collective global behavior and the internal structure of human civilization can be characterized through mathematical concepts that apply to all complex systems. An analysis based upon these mathematical concepts suggests that human civilization itself is an organism capable of behaviors that are of greater complexity than those of an individual human being. In order to understand the significance of this statement, one must recognize that collective behaviors are typically simpler than the behavior of components. Only when the components are connected in networks of specialized function can complex collective behaviors arise.
  • The goal of this article is to extend the systematic understanding of collective or cooperative behavior so as to characterize such behavior in physical, biological and social systems.
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  • Random, coherent and correlated behaviors illustrate the relationship between the behavior of parts and the collective behavior of a system. In both random and coherent behavior the collective behavior of the system is simple. Correlated behavior gives rise to complex collective behavior. Examples illustrating these types of behavior can be found in physical, biological and social systems.
  • The complexity profile is a mathematical tool that is designed to capture important aspects of the relationship between the behavior of parts of a system and the behavior of the entire system. Behaviors of the system are assigned a scale which is related to the ability of an observer to see that behavior. Typically, larger scale behaviors involve coordination between more parts and/or larger amounts of energy. The complexity profile counts the number of behaviors that are observable at a particular scale, which includes all behaviors assigned to that scale or larger scales. When a system is formed out of independent parts, the behaviors are on a small scale. When a system is formed out of parts that all move in the same direction, the behavior is on the largest scale. When a system is formed out of parts whose behaviors are partially correlated and partially independent then as we look at the system on finer and finer scales we see more and more details. This is characteristic of complex systems formed out of specialized and correlated parts. Such systems have a complexity profile that declines gradually with scale.
  • Hierarchical organizations are designed to impose correlations in human behavior primarily through the influence of the hierarchical control structure. In an ideal hierarchy all influences/communications between two "workers" must travel through a common manager. As the complexity of collective behavior increases, the number of independent influences increases, and a manager becomes unable to process/communicate all of them. Increasing the number of managers and decreasing the branching ratio (the number of individuals supervised by one manager) helps. However, this strategy is defeated when the complexity of collective behavior increases beyond the complexity of an individual. Networks allowing more direct lateral interactions do not suffer from this limitation.
  • From this argument it is possible to begin to understand processes of historical change in human organizational structures. Human organizations exist within an environment that places demands upon them. If the complexity of these demands exceeds the complexity of an organization, the organization will be likely to fail. Thus, those organizations that survive must have a complexity sufficiently large to respond to the complexity of environmental demands at the scale of these demands. As a result, a form of evolutionary change occurs due to competition. Competition is relevant because for human organizations, the environment itself is formed in part out of organizations of human beings. According to this argument, one can expect a self-consistent process of complexity increase where competition between organizations causes the behavior of one organization to serve as part of the environment in which others must survive.
  • he history of human civilization reflects a progressive increase in the complexity of large scale behaviors. Early civilizations introduced a few relatively simple large scale behaviors by use of many individuals (slaves or soldiers) performing the same repetitive task. Progressive specialization with coordination increased the complexity of large scale behaviors. The industrial revolution accelerated this process which continues till today. When the complexity of collective behaviors increases beyond that of an individual human being then hierarchical controls become ineffective. Hierarchically controled systems must yield to networked systems. Note that a system which has fixed energy and material can change its complexity profile only by transfering activities from one scale to another. Increasing complexity at one scale must be compensated by decreasing complexity at another scale. However, an increasing human population, and the addition of sources of energy during the industrial revolution (coal, oil and gas), violated these conditions, enabling the complexity to increase on all scales. As indicated on the horizontal axis, the scale of human civilization also increased.
  • The most dramatic increases in the complexity of organizational behavior followed the industrial revolution. The use of new energy sources and automation enabled larger scale behavior in and of itself. This, in turn, enabled higher complexity behaviors of human systems because the amplification of the behavior to a larger scale can be accomplished by the use of energy rather than by task repetition.
  • A schematic history of human civilization reflects a growing complexity of the collective behavior of human organizations. The internal structure of organizations changed from the large branching ratio hierarchies of ancient civilizations, through decreasing branching ratios of massive hierarchical bureaucracies, to hybrid systems where lateral connections appear to be more important than the hierarchy. As the importance of lateral interactions increases, the boundaries between subsystems become porous. The increasing collective complexity also is manifest in the increaseing specialization and diversity of professions. Among the possible future organizational structures are fully networked systems where hierarchical structures are unimportant.
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    Since time immemorial humans have complained that life is becoming more complex, but it is only now that we have a hope to analyze formally and verify this lament. This article analyzes the human social environment using the "complexity profile," a mathematical tool for characterizing the collective behavior of a system. The analysis is used to justify the qualitative observation that complexity of existence has increased and is increasing. The increase in complexity is directly related to sweeping changes in the structure and dynamics of human civilizationthe increasing interdependence of the global economic and social system and the instabilities of dictatorships, communism and corporate hierarchies. Our complex social environment is consistent with identifying global human civilization as an organism capable of complex behavior that protects its components (us) and which should be capable of responding effectively to complex environmental demands.
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A performance-based approach to design - 0 views

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    Architecture Interspace designs this auditorium in Puducherry to integrate function, structure and connectivity - an experiential space uniquely shaped by materials, lighting, and dynamic features.
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An ultra-thin projection into the future! - 0 views

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    Designer Marc Fornes of Theverymany studio experiments with ultra-thin material to explore structural strength of a free-standing structure. Could this be the start of another break-through in architecture? Read here and give us your views
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Cultural expression in the built form! - 0 views

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    Fashioned by PESarchitect , #TheFuzhouStraitCultureandArtCentreunravels and realises #China's #ceramic #heritage through its unconventional #form and materials, interlacing #abstracted #symbolismwithin its #design.
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Material Explorations - 0 views

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    Reviving a lost craft and in the bargain, pushing it to outperform, is a strength that is being explored by designer Rooshad Shroff. How will he sustain this? Any suggestions? Check out the story here and tell us what you think
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Complex forms are crafted to look simple in this contemporary Mumbai home - 0 views

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    Sunali Goenka Design crafts a #state-of-the-art, #tech-friendly #contemporary #home for a philanthropist in #Mumbai. Check out how the home leverages #natural material to refreshing advantage…
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Clean lines and studied restraint define this luxurious abode in Ludhiana - 0 views

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    Planet Design Studio uses clean lines, studied restraint and a monochrome palette rich in material and texture to define luxury in this bungalow in Ludhiana.
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Luxury has a new address! - 0 views

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    Ar. Shahen Mistry designs a luxurious entrance lobby and clubhouse for a plush residential high-rise in Mumbai, playing with materiality and sleekness to define uber chic appeal. Check out the project here…
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A transcendental journey through customer service! - 0 views

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    Fran Silvestre Arquitectos designs a customer-services office using orthogonal geometry and a minimalist material and colour palette. Check out the poetic architecture and write in to us with your views…
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A symphony of materials - 0 views

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    Ganna Design chisels an upbeat interior for a home in Taiwan using a linear wall as the focal element. Check it out here
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A luxury home in shades of grey! - 0 views

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    AMPM Designs crafts a luxurious villa in Pune where every frame is a picturesque setting! Different shades of grey vie for attention through material, texture and pattern as they hobnob with striking flourishes of pastels and champagne to evoke classicism that borders on the contemporary. Check out the home here
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Exploring the narrative in design! - 0 views

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    From the everyday rises trendy workable design as Shabnam Gupta of The Orange Lane creates characteristic Pune vibes for its first Social at Viman Nagar. Check it out here…
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Industrial Ball Valve with dombor - 0 views

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Bringing India home! - 0 views

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    Sumessh Menon infuses his signature style into refurbishing a sprawling Indian home in Dubai using a subdued melange of materials, where most of the design elements are made and sourced from India. Read on to know more here
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