A kit, not a monument.
Curved modules, perforated hubs and joining sleeves form the physical vocabulary. They set the conditions under which different constructions become possible.
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ARKHE
An open system for play.
ARKHE began with a physical kit of curved parts and connecting hubs. Mk. II investigates how those pieces can be assembled, checked and inspected in a browser.
Not one object.
Many arrangements.
The original proposal treated a playground as a set of connectable parts rather than a fixed sculpture. An arrangement could change with its site; the physical kit remained recognizable.
Rules before spectacle.
The browser experiment explores configurations with source-derived geometry and constraints for sockets, terrain and the available inventory.
02 / ARKHE MK. IISame kit.
Same kit.
Different ground.
The Three.js study lets visitors examine arrangements and assembly sequences, tracing how parts, sockets and terrain relate.
Open the browser study ↗
Before a form emerges, four questions.
Connect
Which sockets and orientations can meet?
Place
Does the arrangement fit the terrain?
Account
Are the needed components in the inventory?
Inspect
Can assembly be examined and reversed?
The current browser prototype is an experimental continuation. Mechanism details, graph generation, runtime performance and physical verification remain open work.
Original ARKHE design: Ozan Gürsoy and Umut Baykan (design team); Gökalp Yiğit Denktaş and İlayda Akak (assisting team). Mk. II is a separate computational continuation.
Questions, opportunities, half-formed ideas
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