Living Morphologies

Maxwell, IJ; Pigram, DA

Living Morphologies

Maxwell, IJ Pigram, DA

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Citation:: 9th ARCHILAB: Naturalizing Architecture

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Maxwell, IJ	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pigram, DA	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Brayer, MA	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Migayrou, F	en_US
dc.date	2013-09-14	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	9th ARCHILAB: Naturalizing Architecture	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-2-910385-82-8	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31796
dc.publisher	FRAC	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	9th ARCHILAB: Naturalizing Architecture	en_US
dc.title	Living Morphologies	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC)	en_US
utslib.for	1201 Architecture	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Students
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC)	en_US
pubs.start-date	2013-09-14	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Living Morphologies is a creative project in the field of algorithmic design: specifically the implementation of agent-based design strategies within architecture. The research relates directly to architectural design methodologies, specifically typology and the generative diagram. The project demonstrates the potential of algorithmic design strategies to shift architectural techniques of production away from graphic systems of representation towards active models of spatial organization. The research draws on the computational traditions of Nicholas Negroponte’s MIT Media Lab and John Frazer’s work at the Architectural Association while differentiating itself from much current work aligned to agent-based methodologies. In such work, algorithms are invariably borrowed from other disciplines, notably Craig Reynold’s seminal crowding and flocking rules of locomotion, upon which architectural meaning is mapped. Invariably in such work, the focus is on the formal qualities of the trajectories resulting from agent-to-agent interaction versus any specific principles of spatial organization, thus rejecting typological diagramming. Living Morphologies reverse engineers the organizational logics of Le Corbusier’s canonical housing diagram - the ‘skip-stop’ most famously implemented in his 1952 project Unite d’Habitation - before deploying it through a distributed agent-based design model. Empowered through computation, the formational parameters of Corbusier’s diagram can be tuned and evolved towards more differentiated outcomes thus expanding the singular configuration of the originating project. The project is presented in the form of a large 3D-printed detail model, plans and sections and a series of recorded time-based agent-based design simulations. The project was included in Archilab 09: Naturalizing Architecture, curated by Marie-Ange Brayer and Frédéric Migayrou and was subsequently acquired by FRAC for its permanent collection.	en_US

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