Archive for the 'Complexity' Category

Tractable Shape II

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.

CA with locator points transposed to a Truchet pattern
Con­ti­nue rea­ding ‘Trac­ta­ble Shape II’

Vertical urbanism of generative networks

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Plan-Less House, OFA

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Con­cept Diagram

Fun­da­men­tally the house is our shel­ter, but it is also a place of ap­pro­pria­tion, where we create our iden­ti­ties and our me­mo­ries. An in­ter­face with the world, the home is a de­vice in which we fil­ter our en­vi­ron­ment and trans­fer in­for­ma­tion about our­sel­ves to others. Our pro­po­sal for the plan-less house seeks to create a sim­ple sys­tem of mo­va­ble ele­ments which to­gether yield al­most an in­fi­nite com­bi­na­tion of spa­tial con­fi­gu­ra­tions. The idea of the home is no lon­ger a plan dia­gram in­di­ca­ting a hie­rarchy of di­vi­sions, but a set of va­ria­bles which crea­tes a fle­xi­ble sys­tem adap­ting to the user. Now a more in­te­res­ting and com­plex exchange and in­te­rac­tion can oc­cur, one in which the inhabiter(s) can cons­tantly re-appropriate, re-territorialize space as nee­ded. The house con­cep­tually be­co­mes a stage set, in which many ac­ti­vi­ties and story­li­nes take place si­mul­ta­neously in the same “space” and can also be re­con­fi­gu­red for dif­fe­rent “sce­nes.” A mu­ta­ble code for li­ving, the plan-less house ful­fills the need for the spa­tial com­ple­xity which our li­festy­les de­mand.
Con­ti­nue rea­ding ‘Plan-Less House, OFA’

The Complex Machine

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