DIGITAL LOGICS_T5

By Borislav Schalev | Published: November 24, 2014

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Reading text: Toward a Theory of Architecture Machines – Nicholas Negroponte
Case study: Media-TIC, Barcelona – CLOUD 9 Architects

Nicholas Negroponte developed a theoretical framework on the need of machines to facilitate architecture. The “father” of the MIT wrote this article in 1969 where he describes that architects should join a partnership with architecture machines to create efficient architecture. At that time everything was created by hand and he revolutionary thought about the possibilities of machines to be self learning, self improving and adaptive. On the one hand he characterizes the architect as the teacher of the machine, but on the other hand he limits the work of an architect to minimum by suggesting a master machine, which can provide all necessary information to the other machines.

In my opinion machines should always remain tools for humans in order to make their work more efficient but not to do the whole work for them. A machine should support you, not decide for you. I admire his revolutionary thinking of advanced architecture at that time where even personal computers were not introduced but I think he exaggerates the role of a machine. His visionary machines have too much power and cannot be controlled. He portrays the creation of helping machines in a positive way but never describes how they their learning process could be controlled. If they can learn by senses, (see ‘’seeing machine’’) and to self improve, he is no longer talking of producing tools but a completely new race with a master machine as their main head. Architecture will be created on the “assembly line” and every design would be standardized. In that case, do we still talk about architecture? Machines as tools can help us research in terms of energy efficiency and sustainability and contribute to the protection of the environment and help us develop new strategies and materials to preserve our nature.

Take for example the Media-TIC, which was built in Barcelona in 2009 by CLOUD 9 Architects. This is a perfect example of an energy efficient building. Media-TIC was digitally designed and built using CAD-CAM processes (machines as tools). The 38-m high Media-TIC houses a photovoltaic cover on the roof. Rainwater is collected in a tank to cover the circulation of the building’s wastewater. All the facades of Media-TIC differently use the ETFE cladding, which allow savings of up to 20% of cooling costs. Media-TIC prevents the release of 114 tons CO2 into the atmosphere and is able to produce the same amount of electricity generated by 700 photovoltaic captors. The Media-TIC is just an example of sustainable architecture and we are heading the right way to create self-sufficient buildings, which will be the answer of futuristic architecture. The building industry has the biggest potential in being a leader in the energy management field. An architect does not need anything to do the entire work for him; he needs the right tools to make his research, his design and his final product the most efficient to help preserving our nature in order to save our planet.

In a future research I would like to realize how far we could probably go with technology and would it be still safe for us. Is it really possible to create self-learning machines? I am really concerned with the fact that a misuse of such an advanced self-improving machines will end in controlling us. Is this digital-era really helping us to live a better life or is it separating us from the real world? I am also really worried for the younger generation, which will completely lose touch with the reality.

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DIGITAL LOGIC_T4

By A.Angello Coarite Asencio | Published: November 24, 2014

TOYO ITO - SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE TOYO ITO - SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE & STEVEN JHON –EMERGENCE

Case Study :  SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE  BY  ARCHITECT TOYO ITO + STRUCTURAL ENG. MATSURO SASAKI 

Reading Text : EMERGENCE THE CONNECTED LIVES OF ANTS, BRAINS, CITIES AND SOFTWARE  BY STEVEN JHON

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Referent Image: www.artspace.org.nz/exhibitions/2001/blurringarchitecture.asp

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In the above Mediatheque Sendai and The Connected lives of Ants both naturally developed because express components: Fluidity, Order Unstable and Transparent both designs and try to prolong the inside outwards emphasizing the continuity of the space.

Sendai Mediatheque is built and consists of  3 main elements: plate, pipe, and skin; The dwellings or places of life of ants naturally developed into huge amounts of solid ground. Both filters and communications develop from the inside to the outside creating the connection. Sendai trying to translate the conditions of society in the architecture using digital media and inhabit ants more naturally, where there is no reason, no logic, only the will of intuition. The most important thing is that both are able to develop their buildings in a collective way as a colonial system that plays an essential role (some can not do), but it (the participation of all in coordination can accomplish anything), large jobs or buildings.

This is a new concept in architecture that expresses much fluidity, lightness, like seaweed moving freely; image or sketches was poetic, far from any known reality, using dimensions, codes, numbers, position, displacement, and utilization of software. This is a project that is parametric and made parametrically.

The ants inhabit is a concept that is made of wild type with lots of places made in huge amounts of solid ground, for its swarm logic is a dominant force, behavior emerge from colonies with constant communication and interaction is the key to understanding the overall behavior evident achievements of its great buildings of its proportions; exploring their spaces without predefined orders. This is a clear sign that these buildings are habitat can see it’s a 100% parametric project, but with the difference that has not been done parametrically.

 

In conclusion I reached a confirmation of the above projects there today that are parametric and conducted parametrically and others like constructions that have been developed since ancient times, it can be observed that are parametric but are not made or constructed parametrically (no logic, no reason, are free as the wind and flow like a natural organism but is there the ability to achieve and suggest how they can do.

 

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DIGITAL LOGICS – Growth and Form

By Silvia Oliva Marco | Published: November 24, 2014

This text was written by D’Arcy Thompson, this was his master work.

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His main thesis is that biological form can reflect physical and mathematical principles. For instance, the spicules of sponges adopt a number of characteristic shapes. D’Arcy argued that these were the consequence of slight differences in the “starting conditions” witch might well reflect some aspect of natural selection, but the resulting morphology of the spicules did not.

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One clear demonstration of his notions of the dynamic influence of starting conditions lies in the morphology of shells and horns. D’Arcy Thompson showed that all horn and shell morphologies could be described in simple mathematical terms readily derived from the incremental nature of growth.

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Even if a morphology was plainly functional, this did not imply for D’Arcy that it was incorporated into the genome by natural selection. For instance, geometrical rules of packing determine cell arrangements. These need not be specified, but can arise spontaneously. Yet the packing arrangement may be “useful” in minimising the space occupied by the cells, by maximizing cell-cell contacts, by establishing different categories of cells, “inside” versus “outside”, and so on.

figures from 'On Growth and Form'

Perhaps the most famous images from ‘On Growth and Form’ are the transformations. D’Arcy showed that gross variation in form between related species could be modeled by the consistent deformation of a sheet.

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The consistency of the deformation is the crucial point here: it is obvious that any fish form could be made to look like any other fish form, if it were sketched on a perfectly deformable elastic sheet, and stretched in many directions at once. But D’Arcy Thompson showed that if the sheet were stretched in one particular pattern, then a new species form would be generated. This remarkable and curious observation has not been fully explained even today.

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Material Behavior in Deleuze and SAANA

By Orion Gorrão Moreira Campos | Published: November 24, 2014

Stuttgart

Photo: HygroSkin-Meteorosensitive Pavilion, by Achim Menges (2012)

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DIGITAL LOGIC_T3

By Prawit Kittichanthira | Published: November 24, 2014

 

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Reference Image: http://technoccult.net/

Case Study : Blur Building Swiss Expo 2002 by DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO

Reading Text : A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

“Architecture as special effect” is the phrase that I felt in Blur Building. It is an Experience Architecture. There is no roof, no wall, only lightweight tensegrity structure. We actually cannot measure the real size of architecture because all 35,000 nozzles which are controlled due to the parameter of climate and weather generate the “mist and fog”. Each individual nozzle are controlled by senor of wind climate which effect water pressure to nozzle. Water works as primary material and particles that envelope architecture acts as movable and kinetic façade so called “Responsive Architecture”. In term of Topological Thinking, we can see the transformation from water into the mist and mist into the air, there are number of  changes in the process of material properties.

Rhizome has big impact on parametric and digital architecture. It’s non-linear system which there is no beginning or ending. The input and output can enter from anywhere anytime. It is “the notion of network”. There will be no center called “Decentralization” which is a web of interconnected network.

The rhizome, of course, is their well-known image of a decentered system of points that can connect in any order and without hierarchy, a term drawn from botany that names a network of stems, like the strawberry plant, that grows horizontally and discontinuously by sending out runners. The logic of the rhizome is opposed to that of the tree, which is a hierarchical structure centered around a fixed root, a structure that grows continuously and vertically

My present interests is in the field of algorithmic architecture and generative design that has focused on agent-based models and the methodologies that focus on investigations spatial, structural and material organization in architecture and urbanism. I strongly believed that good architecture can embrace an intimate engagement between social and material interaction that concern in material performance and material life cycle.

In future research, I will use generative design process that can approach to environmental design by using multi-agent systems which capable of self-organizing into an emergent intelligence because it has the potential of the systems to negotiate between a complex set of desires and parameters in the generation of architecture.

Finally, my research line will explore more in algorithmic design methodologies and  non-linear algorithmic design methodologies in developing complex systems and how these non-linear systems interact and operate within geometry in response to a set of architectural criteria.

 

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