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ACP CLAD TRADITIONAL TRADITIONAL
SURVIVAL STRATEGY:NEED BASED
APPENDAGE / ALTERATION
FAILURE OF SURVIVAL:VOID
SURVIVAL THROUGHEQUILIBRIUM
PUBLIC SPACE COMMERCIAL COMMERCIALRESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIALTRADITIONAL
RESIDENTIALREBUILTREBUILT
ORGANIZED CHAOS
POL HOUSINGTIME
NEEDEQUILIBRIUM
GENERATIVE SYSTEM
INFIL
SELF ORGANIZATION
MARKET LED ECONOMYEVOLUTION
COMMUNAL VIOLENCEEARTHQUAKE
CONFLICTORGANIC GROWTH
DOMINANCESURVIVAL
MUTUALISM
IN A SOCIAL EQUILIBRIUM
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ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND CULTURAL SEGREGATION AROUND THE CALICO SHOP ARE CONCURRENTLY A RESULTANT OF AN UNSELFCONSCIOUS
GROWTH PROCESS. A PROCESS TRIGGERED BY NEED, CATALYZED BY TIME THUS CREATING A SYMBIOTIC RELATION
BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW.
IT DEMONSTRATES A SOCIAL HOLISM DESPITE OF HAVING PLURALITY IN CHARACTER.
THE PATTERN IN THE URBAN FABRIC OF THE AREA SHOWS A RESEMBLANCE WITH DARWINIAN THEORIES OF EVOLUTION.
THE PROMINACE IN NON-CONSTANCY OF ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER, DESCENT OF NEW CHARACTER FROM
PREVIOUS CHARACTER, NON-DISCONTINUITY IN CHARACTER AND DIVERSITY IN THE PRESENT DAY ARCHITECTURAL
SCENARIO HAS LED THE ADJACENT AREA OF THE CALICO DOME TO SURVIVE THROUGH ALL SORTS OF ODDS, SIMILAR
TO ‘SURVIVAL OF FITTEST’ IN THE NATURAL SELECTION.
“ SYSTEMS, NOTABLY CITIES, GROW AND DEVELOP AND, IN GENERAL, EVOLVE. CLEARLY, THIS CONCEPT IS CONTINGENT
UPON THE FUNCTIONALIST / MUTUALIST HYPOTHESIS (WITHOUT WHICH IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE IN WHAT SENSE
THE SYSTEM ITSELF DOES GROW), THOUGH THE DEPENDENCY IS OFTEN UNSTATED.”
- PASK, GORDON. ‘THE ARCHITECTURAL RELEVANCE OF CYBERNATICS’, AD READER: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN THINKING, JOHN WILEY & SONS, LONDON, 2011