Zero-Waste, Flat Pack Truss Work: An Investigation of Responsive Structuralism

“The design engineer, in his prioritizing of materialization, is the pilot figure of this cultural shift which we have termed ‘new structuralism.’”(Oxman, Oxman, 2010) “It [architecture] must become more primitive in terms of meeting the most fundamental human needs with an economy of expression and mediating man’s relationship with the world…and more sophisticated in the sense of adapting to the cyclic systems of nature in terms of both matter and energy. Ecological architecture also implies a view of building more as a PROCESS than a product.” (Pallasmaa, 1993)