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.
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totalrules = 3^15 - 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}]
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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.
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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.
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