ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews site as an abstract condition of interrelated activities, events, and programs. The interactions between these variables generate various field topographies. Vending carts, joggers, and commuters, for example, interact differently according to disparate temporal cycles. The membrane's expression develops from a simple fold which also incorporates the various programs into the ferry terminal. The hybridization of two similar but different units creates a number of membranes that have the capacity to incorporate several programs. These membranes are not just decorative surfaces but are performative in relation to site and program, that is, they have the potential to positively intervene in one's activities. The compression and tension between connected units produces qualitative characteristics of the membrane that act as evolutionary agents, giving birth to unexpected deviations in the genetic lines which run through the architectural surface. Modular shell structure developed by recombining alternating pleat units to produce continuous surface.
