qed THINK by Nancy Chan

QEDTHINK

Basil Wong, Gavin Chan Chan Ching Yee, Xinyue Yang, Tiffany Man-Wah Wong 2014

CoNTENT

1. Nature Readings Group Summary Case studies

2. Ecologies Readings Group Summary Case studies 3. Culture Readings Group Summary Case studies 4. Territories Readings Group Summary Case studies 5. Future Readings Group Summary Case studies

NATURES

THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANISED CHANGE Kelly, Kevin (1995)

EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE IN ARCHITECTURE: EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF GENERATIVE ALGORITHMS AS OPERATIVE DESIGN TOOLS

ADAPTIVITY IN ARCHITECTURE

adapt to environment.

GEOMETRIES OF CREATION: ARCHITECTURE AND THE REVISION OF NATURE

PROCESS IN NATURE AND PROCESS IN ARCHITECTURE: INQUIRY INTO A PROCESS OF UNFOLDING

tres

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Case Studies

and droplets do not drop by gravity

TECHNOLOGY IS AN ESSENTIAL IN A REVOLUTION

environmental design strategy:

Case Study- Xinyue Yang

Source: Author`s own PROTOTYPES / The field defined by Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly / Central steps of the simulation

Case Study - Xinyue Yang (Caroline)

LA SAGRADA FAMILIA

‘Inner Forest’

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THE MATRIX MOVIE

ECoLoGIES

SURVIVAL THROUGH DESIGN CHAPTER 23

SELF-ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIES

poses:

MORPHOGENISIS AND MATHEMATICS OF EMERGENCE

emerge’.

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Case Studies

Source:

INFORMATION SELECTION Case Study - Xinyue Yang (Caroline)

MFA is complementary to life cycle assessment (LCA) and input-output (I/O) models.

A typical MFA system with quantification. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_flow_analysis Stefan Pauliuk (2011)

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

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CULTURES

‘Why being Less Bad is no Good’, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things

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banism

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Design

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Case Studies

UPDATING PLATFORMS OF TECHNOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS

Shource: ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace The Crystal Palace Source: http://25.media.tumblr.com/ Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fair, Brussels, Belgium Source: http://blog.poltrack.net/2013/11/blast-from-past-thursday-expo-70-osaka.html

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TERRIToRIES

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MANY

INTELLIGENT CITIES AND THE TAXONOMY OF COGNITIVE SCALES

Situated

Gissen David 1.

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History

Puddles

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puddle as ‘undisturbed realism’

Mud

planning

Debris

lent past

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Case Studies

derstood.

Fig.3: Environmental Diagram

CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT CASE Case Study-Xinyue Yang The cellular automata plaza designed by Alisa Andrasek and her team at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) was an example experimented on agents that carried huge numbers of material related data. Accordingly, regional civilization and materiality were integrated as different constituent parts in seeking a hybrid system (Andrasek, 2010). The project is binding ingredients of local culRunning algorithms to emerge the micro climate ture andofphysics in order to developed hybridized programming through higher resolution fabric of architecture. Inspired by the Old City’s network of polished stone pavements, squares, palace courtyards and cloister gardens, the project attempts to replicate qualities and effects of such collective “living” space. Proposal introduces high-resolution micro-articulation of urban furniture, synthetic “weather” and dispersed energy produc-

Clusters controled by environmental elements

Working process of a generative architectural design

The cellular by automata plaza Automata designed bymodel Alisa Ancomposed a Cellular drasek and her team at the Architectural Association Design Researchelements. LaboratoryWorking (AADRL)process was an example environmental of experimented on agents that carried huge numbers of a generative architectural design material related data. Accordingly, regional civilization and materiality were integrated as different constituent parts in seeking a hybrid system (Andrasek, 2010). The project is binding ingredients of local culture and physics in order to developed hybridized programming through higher resolution fabric of architecture. Inspired by the Old City’s network of polished stone Running of algorithms to emerge the micro climate pavements, squares, palace courtyards and cloister gardens, the project attempts to replicate qualities and effects of such collective “living” space. Proposal introduces high-resolution micro-articulation of urban furniture, synthetic “weather” and dispersed energy production.Environmental reflective algorithms were composed by a Cellular Automata model with cells of five states.

The cellular automata plaza designed by Alisa Andrasek and her team at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (AADRL) was an example Source: http://www.biothing.org/?cat=27 experimented on agents that carried huge numbers of Source: http://www.biothing.org/?cat=27 Jose Sanchez, Anastasia Lianou, Igor Pantic, Ermis Chalvatzis, Karoly Markos（2011） material related data. Accordingly, regional civilization and materiality were integrated as different constituent Clusters controled by environmental elements parts in seeking a hybrid system (Andrasek, 2010). The project is binding ingredients of local culture and physics in order to developed hybridized programming through higher resolution fabric of architecture.

FUTURES

Future Details of Architecture Armstrong, Rachel (2014)

The Collective Image: Form, Figure and the Future Patt, Trevor (2010)

repeated.

Key Innovations: Place, Space, Field Schumacher, Patrick (2011)

Dream a Little Dream Morris, Mark (2011)

later DNA.

environments.

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Case Studies

around or under buildings.

Fig.1 (top left): Coral-like material Fig.2 (top right): Coral Source: http://inhabitat.com/researchers-developing-coral-like-living-skin-for-buildings/ Fig.3 (bottom left): Protocells

Case Study - Xinyue Yang (Caroline)

It makes sense to monitor the data which could be seen as iteration variable in loop body. Actually, data in the city are always in a certain loopback. Even that some information might be replaced in the evolution of the city, the appearance of them act to be indispensible in a whole. Participatory tool created to access these raw materials shall be work as a automatic link to support. To be more pictorial, the organic mechanism is an automatic process in a sense. Outer environment is collect by cells. All the treatment towards the signal generated from the collection is set ahead by genes in our cells. Automatic reflection means that it does not need gradually manual operation or guidance. To name a few, some fully automatic wall curtain can spontaneously run with a pre arranged procedure. Modern computers can automatically respond to a variety of coded instructions by artificial preparation and complete complex analysis and calculation, automatic control systems of robotics combined with artificial intelligence achieve a series of human-like activities. Research by the Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture practice in conjunction with the Argonne National Laboratory Computation Department examined the influence of a multi-scale analytical data model as a critical aspect of the decarbonisation process of urban environments. It is intended to function as a design, planning and communication tool focused on the embodied and produced carbon of urban systems, both present and predicted. This model allows energy performance simulations to be expanded to a larger area encompassing multiple buildings and agents. An optimised algorithm is then implemented to allow three primary input-output scenarios. Considering these projected impacts, the model can be used to calculate the architectural related factors in relation to carbon emissions, and the sustainability of a project.

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MATERIAL STUDY- GRAPHENE- ANDRE KONSTANTIN NOVOSELOV