The phenomenon of attractor in architecture

Attractor is a deeply layered term of physical and mathematical research. In a trivial interpretation, it designates the phenomenon and the subject of attraction. In the universe, the main process by which material bodies are built is gravity, attraction. The phenomenon of attraction permeates cosmic transformations at all levels of existence, starting with the coagulation of galaxies, formation of planetary biospheres, birth of societies, and organization of habitats. At any scale of transformations initiated by attractors, systems with the property of self-organization and development are created. One of these systems is architecture as a leading and comprehensive area of human activity in the organization of the living environment. The system of architecture involves abiogenic and biophysical parameters characterizing its integrity as an object of planetary metabolism, associated with other life support systems by general concepts and terms confirming the creativity of the principles of form-generation in material contacts and associative metaphors. Human society develops according to the same universal laws as all other matter, although not everyone agrees with this opinion. Hence the vast range of typologies of attractors, mundane and sacred, highlighting the existentialism of architecture. The types of attractors are just the object of consideration in this article.