The changes generated by the onset of the information age have met with little correspondence in architecture. Perhaps insistence for the provision of shelter and accommodation of basic human needs work against the direct incorporation of intangible qualities associated with our times: impermanence, flexibility, seriality. Any viable art, being a product of its own time, defines its very form from that time's inscrutable, unknowable nature. In preparing this competition entry, the designers have been fascinated by the seeming contradiction between the architect's requirement to work with form in an era seemingly resistant to definition and tangibility.