Naturalmodular Building Techniques
A New Kind of Modular Building
To Build Like Nature You Must Think Like Nature
To Think Like Nature You Must Think in Whole Systems
Synergy Defines Whole Systems
Synergy is the behavior of whole systems unpredicted by
the behavior of the parts studied individually.
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A whole system is always more than the sum of its parts because of the communication networks that exist among the essential parts of these systems.
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In these natural systems, change one measurement and the others all change in unison to maintain a constant relationship. These communication networks are modular and self-organizing. For me, that is the beginning definition of Design-in-Nature.
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This website and my YouTube channel, naturalmodular, teach you how to define, measure and map the structural and numerical constants that define these modular, self-organizing building patterns of basic geometry.
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Naturalmodular building techniques are based on Newtools geometry, a builders geometry.
To navigate the material I have organized this large body of information into six portals. In the first four we will limit our explorations to the simplest polyhedra (geometrical systems) called the Five Platonic Solids. We will add the vector equilibrium (VE) in the mapping section as our outside limit of the center's influence. The practical advantages of Newtools/naturalmodular can be shown with the simplest of structures without information overload. Overall, Newtools defines 20 geometrical systems as most fundamental.
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In portal 5 we expand our exploration to the 1st 12 systems. This allows us a greater pool of available modular building patterns. Portal 6 is still under construction in the 'Your Future' section.
Below is a video introducing my thinking about Design-in-Nature and how to use the fundamental structures of basic geometry to increase structural integrity with minimum use of materials, space or effort.