By employing the new capabilities of digital technology and adjusted
manufacturing procedures, what is of interest here is not the random
manufacture of form, nor the inspiration derived from form in nature
for its
own sake, but rather the lessons from nature where form intersects with
function, where the overlap creates the harmony, the underlying
elegance and efficiency that prevails, just as we see occurring in
nature. Apart from the aesthetic merits of this coincidence, the
economic benefits manifest in this harmony are apparent, as the drive
towards integrating form and function constructionally, operates within
a framework of overlap. How often do we see structures that are deemed
to be economic, yet are visually obtrusive? Structures that attempt to
express elegance without a clear hierarchy, which result in expensive
pastiche? Buildings that are purist in form but are functionally
limited and expensive?

Our Hand and machine-made concrete molds define structural hierarchy as
the arrangement of structure (both man made and in nature) that most
efficiently evolved as a response to the loading configuration to which
it is subjected. The coincidence of optimal load transfer between
associated elements and the forms that have evolved as a response to
the many complex environmental conditions are a living demonstration of
the visual harmony that exists between form and function.