Skopelab imagines computational design algorithms to transform sounds from the natural world into geometry.

 

 

The natural world fascinates me. Absolute absorption in infinitely changing landscapes of rocks and pools full of flowing and scurrying life; immersed in the rhythmic sound of interactions of current and ancient events as land and sea collide.

 

Everywhere in the natural world, coherence and diversity are entwined. Rigorous coherence born of site parameters; geological, meteorological, biological, botanical, layered with endless variety. Nothing quite repeats as we travel through the land: absolute harmony, yet constant discovery.

 

Design rarely possesses these qualities. Constrained by what we can imagine and realise, by consideration of symmetry and purity and rationality.

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My belief is to allow external forces into the process of design, to have the humility to accept that “I” did not design this alone, yet played my role as guide towards the solution. This is why I qualify this philosophy as “beyond designed and found”, these works as acoustic landscapes, possessed of unexpected rhythm and harmony. Embrace the unexpected.

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Mark Lloyd

Founder