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Dana Kupkova’s Advanced Synthesis Option studios confront ecological and biological processes using datasets in parametric software such as Grasshopper, which forces the architectural design to ultimately respond to the information generated from the program. Her studios analyze the natural ecology and environments of specific sites to generate designs whose forms are dependent on the nature of the site; this degree of specificity and synthesis of location produces highly contextual forms.

Kupkova’s work is admirable because the resultant forms respond to a complex set of variables inputted into a computational process; it intelligently uses information that is inherently natural and difficult to predict to produce functional spaces. The means of analysis and product seem highly incompatible, but they do, however, work complementary in that the parametric outputs rely solely on the input of ongoing ecological data.