Those dices serve a pointillist and hi-tech animation to illustrate an electro music signed by one of the most innovative English groups (Fujiya & Miyagi) of the moment.
Recently, a friend of mine, another architect, forwards me this animation. I found it very interesting since I passed the last three weeks working and exploring original ways of using the Cellular Automaton and more precisely the Block Cellular Automaton for the design of architectural structures. This animation reminds me of an artistic combination of colored Cellular Automata and Turing Machine. Please note that I am not trying to prove here that the Turing machine is universal or not.
This is the result of a study with Mathematica on the way to “produce” an enormous possible range of shapes. This tool that we’ve made allows us to create any shape by setting regular or irregular boundaries. then the software computes and gives born to some alien babies. This is all parametrical and based on mathematical functions. Mathematica is a powerfull software that Open Form will use efficiently from now on.
These are the results of one of our project at the summer school of New Kind of Science.
What if a building could shape itself depending on the context where it is built!
This statement might be hard to understand in a physical world, but let’s assume, for instance, that it is a theoretical problem. In fact, a building always has to respond to certain constraints due to the context wherein it is inscribe. Indeed, streets, surrounding buildings, municipalities’ rules and codes, topography, the program of the building (its use), etc. are the tip of the iceberg of what an architect has to deal with when he is designing a building.
