This section will lift the curtain over my laboratory. Here, like a medieval alchemist, I return to the same search of meaning, form and essence of things over and over again. I conduct various researches, which becomes a reliable foundation for my design.
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For many centuries humanity is trying to find the definition of chaos and order. The description of their transfusion is present in all the systems of philosophy, religions and literary forms. Chaos procreated all the Greek gods, the emptiness of the Jade ring creates everything by the Chinese teachings, cabbala, legends of the Inks, American Indians etc. All the teachings of the world are connected to the topic in one way or the other. By the ancient traditions, chaos is the beginning of everything.
The world strives to harmony; the circulation of energy is in global balance between chaos and order. The measure of chaos describes the process of partition in the circulation of nature, the measure of order describes the process of assembling something new.
 
Close examination reveals that, often, design visualizes these processes. Like chaos grows by some standards of the system, just as much order grows by the system’s other standards.
Many objects that surround us appeared due to balance regulation of chaos and order. Possibly, it’s subconscious and intuitive, but for the Campana brothers this regulation game became their trademark.
The Bouroullec brothers touched the subject as well.
And Zaha Hadid
The examples below show the items that became functional and acquired practical characteristics. But they are made out of shapes that lack functions or out of objects with functions that have nothing to do with the final product.
The Whole sets the rules of conduct to its parts. That is why parts of nature, man, society, economy, complex physical systems, when considered as independent objects, copy the characteristics of the Whole and strive to harmonic balance. In the nature of things there are plenty of illustrations to this fact.
The Whole sets the rules of conduct to its parts, which, in their turn, set the same rules to their parts, and so on. In this case we come across a phenomenon called fractural geometry. Many natural objects have fractural characteristics (tops of trees, blood-vascular system), and many material man-made objects have the same characteristics, so do structures like trade networks and branch companies. The notion of fracture is connected to the balance of chaos and order. Like the visible chaotic behavior of a fracture, random and incoherent, on closer examination, becomes an organized structure of self-similar geometrical figures. An English character Humpty-Dumpty when smashing his head on the wall shatters into many small pieces, which form creatures similar to him.
The notion of facture is closely connected to the topic of chaos and order, because when examining facture through a microscope we can see a great number of chaotically placed fractions. But on the other hand, facture is one of the main aspects in creating harmonic, practical and stylish items; this demonstrates a display of system. How chaotic is chaos? Or is chaos merely a very complex order? These are the eternal questions of art. I believe that it all depends on the frame of references and mutual immensity. For an ant grass is a dense chaotic forest, for a man it is just an even green carpet.
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