Mathematics of the Equatorial Villa

Sustainable Design Option Studio
Singapore University of Technology and Design
Spring 2018

The proposition surprises us: a villa. What is this, 16th century Italy? The idea of a space that exists purely for pleasure carries with it the reek of hedonism- in the data-driven city we architects work as optimizers- as happy agents of efficiency! Only in extremis are we faced with purely aesthetic quandaries. But with this problem the apparent solidity of quantitative method fails us. How can we design the superfluous…* shudders* … the beautiful?