Open Form Architecture Blog

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.

Con­ti­nue rea­ding ‘Trac­ta­ble Shape II’

to­tal­ru­les = 3¹⁵ — 1
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fa­vo­ri­te­rule = 5448110;

Array­Plot[
CellularAutomaton[{favoriterule, {3, {3, 1, 3}}}, {{1},
0}, {{0, 2000}, {-2000, 2000}}], Pi­xel­Cons­trai­ned -> 1,
Co­lo­rRu­les -> {0 -> Ye­llow, 1 -> Red, 2 -> Gray}]
Con­ti­nue rea­ding ‘Th­ree Co­lors Ou­ter To­ta­lis­tic Ce­llu­lar Automaton’

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.

Con­ti­nue rea­ding ‘Trac­ta­ble Shape I’

In 2006, I par­ti­ci­pa­ted at the NKS Sum­mer School, which was a de­fi­ning ex­pe­rience. The to­pic of my re­search was THE SPACE BETWEEN THE CELLULAR AUTOMATA: Re­wor­king the Spa­tial Di­vi­sion in Archi­tec­ture. Du­ring the last year, I con­ti­nued to ex­plore this idea and used it in va­rious in­ter­na­tio­nal archi­tec­tu­ral com­pe­ti­tions en­tries, such as the Plan-Less House (Ja­pan) and The Stockholm Li­brary (Sweden).This sum­mer, I will par­ti­ci­pate for a se­cond time to the NKS Sum­mer School at the Uni­ver­sity of Ver­mont, Bur­ling­ton, Vt. Du­ring this year’s pro­gram I will ad­vance my re­search by ex­plo­ring Net­work Struc­tu­res in architecture.

As Ste­ven Wol­fram ar­gues, “Space is a giant net­work of no­des” we see that, as op­po­sed to the me­tro­po­li­ses of the twen­tieth cen­tury, con­tem­po­rary so­ciety pro­du­ces Net­works of Ci­ties. These ci­ties work si­mul­ta­neously on their in­ter­nal re­no­va­tion, inc­rea­sing their ef­fi­ciency from within, while they or­ga­nize them­sel­ves te­rri­to­rially in the form of a NETWORK OF CITIES.
Con­ti­nue rea­ding ‘Net­work Struc­tu­res in Architecture’