Both Endless House (fig 1) and Bowery Apartment (fig 2,3,4) are examples of analytical models. These models are the result of a process that lies between the sculptural and architectural.

The analytical model affords a basic instrumentality that is at once generative and complete, yet generic and manipulable into other specifications. The primary input is a series of mathematical problems that deal with the "edge" as a geometrical and a topological investigation. Each project starts with a series of planes that are reorganized through primitive operations of repetition and differentiation. Then, the design team creates a series of algorithms that produce a "space of operations," in which tectonic and spatial continuities emerge.

The drawings are the first generative instrument. They use computational fluid dynamics to provide a base geometrical input that allows for the complexity of local and global relations (particle to particle and particle to whole).

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