Pourquoi Pattern ?

Fundamentals of Pattern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCdpZlMLoTQ

Pattern in applications
https://vimeo.com/139753183

Pattern undestanding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIaxI_-0IOA



from the Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton videos and book:

- Patterns are events of form.
- We're surrounded by the natural patterns of the universe, from micro to macro
- Design that follows natural patterns is productive, design that doesn't, isn't.
- there are very few pattern form types but infinite variations
- Partial list of pattern forms:

• waves such as water waves and sand dune ripples
• spirals - snail shells, whirlpools, sunflower seeds in the flower head
• lobes - reefs, lichens
• branches - rives and tributaries, tree branches or roots
• nets - cracks in mud or skin, honeycombs
• scatters - algae, lichen on rocks
• cloud forms - clouds or tree crowns
• tessellations - turtle shells
• Fibonacci sequences - found in the number of sunflower seeds in a flower head or number of pine seeds in a pine cone.

So, some simple examples of using pattern in design would be an herb spiral, making swales that follow land contours, making an herb garden with branching pathways, or circular greywater mulch pits. I guess, contrast with this with how most farming and gardening is done - squares, rectangles, and rows of straight lines, none of which is found in nature!

Where I'm stumped, is how to use patterns to design my property, or even transform my garden. I get the concept of patterns, but haven't found a good step-by-step tutorial so that I can look at my property and decide which pattern form to use where.

Collection de Pattern

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