This video is reflecting the digital logics of parametric design in nowadays architecture. According to Steven Johnson’s emergence, architecture can learn a lot from the logics of swarm patterns like ant colonies or human body cells. Indian architect Doshi’s Aranya housing project implements a lot of those ideas, although the project was realized years before the publication of ‘Emergence’. Doshi set the master plan like the human DNA by building the very first row of bricks and setting the sanitary cells. This ensured a minimum standard. The rest was left up to the inhabitants. Therefore spontaneous appearance is the result. By following the individual needs of their inhabitants a certain shape was created.

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