Design for a hotel in Wellington, New Zealand using algorithmic architecture generated in Max Script. Music by mogwai, ‘I know you are but what am I’. Portfolio: www.nzarchitecture.com Bart Sueters thesis www.architectennet.com Video Rating: 4 / 5
@Incrue Use of space could definitely be a factor (although this example is very simple and to my memory does not use it). It uses a genetic algorithm, which does not delete bad designs, only lowers their chance of continuing to exist. You do not want to throw out all bad designs because, with a few tweaks, they might become a good design.
this is no more radical (or absurd) that the modernist aproach, only with more compute potential, and we all know the modern consequences of that “tomorrow that never came” (matter acumulation, energy waste, modern ruins, overcrowding…). the computer power i think is on the capacity to understand the material world, to make more with less, zero impact, reversibility, lightness, to left some room for the people for the future. i hope this messege get to you. cheers from Chile -n.ortiz
ok so let’s take the facts:
1 – more than half of the architects and urban planners are located in the Europe and North America which count only for 15-20% of the global population;
2 – considering the growth prediction, as compared to the rate of training of new designers is it realistic that we can always have the necessary human resources to plan new cities?
For this reasons I think that having a program can design a city might be useful in the near future.
I was about to trash this video, but then I read the conclusion, and I couldn’t agree more.
Stupid people would use this kind of programming just because it looks cool and does everything by itself, without even thinking about the best solution. It’s like the infite monkey theory.
I also think that this kind of architecture should not be of mainstream knowledge for the very reason I just said.
Machines are meant to be used by a brain, and not the other way. Anybody else agrees?
Yea I really like his book, Machining Architecture, particularly when he talks of these methods as being the architecture of the provisional rather than optimal.
Some other references I always come back to:
Manuel De Landa, Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture
Neil Leach, Digital Morphogenesis (In AD 79, 1, 2009)
Congratulations on video .. beautifull pictures, I would very much like to know this place … a look at my video I made of Curitiba – Brazil
just copy the address
myvA2md1Q0k
and put the link on YouTube after the sign =
Thanks …
Wow. Awesome presentation. It went over my head, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it and intend to make sense of it in the future. Please post more of your work.
Half the worlds energy goes towards buildings – trying to connect architecture to a system that helps make intelligent design decisions isn’t without merit.
i find amazing your patience…
I couldn’t read no more than a few lines of those scripts…
imagine how many line syou have to read and write just to creat a box….
well done
Evolutionary Algorithms mainly pioneered in shipbuilding, has immense potential in architecture if we can isolate the real neccessities required for a successful built environment.
@Incrue Use of space could definitely be a factor (although this example is very simple and to my memory does not use it). It uses a genetic algorithm, which does not delete bad designs, only lowers their chance of continuing to exist. You do not want to throw out all bad designs because, with a few tweaks, they might become a good design.
@zeffii It could most definitely use a bit of refactoring (and breaking it down into classes would help too)
teach the algorithm how to identify bad use of space and delete those results when they appear
great
(it looks like you could do some code refactoring)
this is no more radical (or absurd) that the modernist aproach, only with more compute potential, and we all know the modern consequences of that “tomorrow that never came” (matter acumulation, energy waste, modern ruins, overcrowding…). the computer power i think is on the capacity to understand the material world, to make more with less, zero impact, reversibility, lightness, to left some room for the people for the future. i hope this messege get to you. cheers from Chile -n.ortiz
ok so let’s take the facts:
1 – more than half of the architects and urban planners are located in the Europe and North America which count only for 15-20% of the global population;
2 – considering the growth prediction, as compared to the rate of training of new designers is it realistic that we can always have the necessary human resources to plan new cities?
For this reasons I think that having a program can design a city might be useful in the near future.
I was about to trash this video, but then I read the conclusion, and I couldn’t agree more.
Stupid people would use this kind of programming just because it looks cool and does everything by itself, without even thinking about the best solution. It’s like the infite monkey theory.
I also think that this kind of architecture should not be of mainstream knowledge for the very reason I just said.
Machines are meant to be used by a brain, and not the other way. Anybody else agrees?
Yea I really like his book, Machining Architecture, particularly when he talks of these methods as being the architecture of the provisional rather than optimal.
Some other references I always come back to:
Manuel De Landa, Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture
Neil Leach, Digital Morphogenesis (In AD 79, 1, 2009)
Kostas Terzidis, Algorithmic Architecture
John Frazer, An evolutionary Architecture
Feel free to add comment with your own favorites.
have you heard of lars spuijbroek? he’s a professor and leads studios related to this field.
what’s up with everyone using this song in their animations
Great job dude! Congrats!
that’s intelligent. nice drawings at the end!
nicely done!!
Congratulations on video .. beautifull pictures, I would very much like to know this place … a look at my video I made of Curitiba – Brazil
just copy the address
myvA2md1Q0k
and put the link on YouTube after the sign =
Thanks …
Great presentation, I never thought computers could perhaps be used like this in architecture. Great choice of music too.
Wow. Awesome presentation. It went over my head, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it and intend to make sense of it in the future. Please post more of your work.
highly rated
nicely done.
I know you are but what am I?
Happy Songs For Happy People
Mogwai
Is there anyone who knows the name of the song (and album if it’s no problem)?
Half the worlds energy goes towards buildings – trying to connect architecture to a system that helps make intelligent design decisions isn’t without merit.
I don’t get this but I like it.
i find amazing your patience…
I couldn’t read no more than a few lines of those scripts…
imagine how many line syou have to read and write just to creat a box….
well done
Excellent concept! Good presentation!
Evolutionary Algorithms mainly pioneered in shipbuilding, has immense potential in architecture if we can isolate the real neccessities required for a successful built environment.