Very interesting~~~
Would you have imagined this if you were the designer?
"A story is told regarding the Crystal Palace, which in 1851 was considered to be one of the greatest engineering achievements of its time. Its designer, Joseph Paxton, the English horticulturist and engineer, was contemplating a water lily, when the idea occurred to him to adopt the structural system of the lily as the basis of his design for an enormous exhibition hall. In the lily's structure he recognized a regular, precise, and delicate skeletal pattern. Its constituent veins enabled the stalk to support a very large area of leaf surface.
While the truth of this story cannot be confirmed, the point is that we all carry in our memories our experiences of nature. We continue to bear within ourselves a sense of structure in nature, since so much of our experience derives from that."
Paul Speiregen & Lester Wertheimer, Programming, Planning & Practice, p.73
Would you have imagined this if you were the designer?
"A story is told regarding the Crystal Palace, which in 1851 was considered to be one of the greatest engineering achievements of its time. Its designer, Joseph Paxton, the English horticulturist and engineer, was contemplating a water lily, when the idea occurred to him to adopt the structural system of the lily as the basis of his design for an enormous exhibition hall. In the lily's structure he recognized a regular, precise, and delicate skeletal pattern. Its constituent veins enabled the stalk to support a very large area of leaf surface.
While the truth of this story cannot be confirmed, the point is that we all carry in our memories our experiences of nature. We continue to bear within ourselves a sense of structure in nature, since so much of our experience derives from that."
Paul Speiregen & Lester Wertheimer, Programming, Planning & Practice, p.73
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