PART B CRITERIA DESIGN
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B.1 Research Field
John Frazer has argued that the generative process for architectural form can be derived from the evolutionary nature rules, DNA which direct the genesis of living organism that generate their form (). Within the same species, the variation of the biological morphogenesis is achieved through the iterative exchange and the change of information which are called gene crossover and mutation (). Therefore, like the chromosomes of nature, the genetic architecture is a string-like structure with various parameters encoded, randomly changing rules, a number of similar forms generated. The strength of this kind of architecture is that with small incremental changes over several generations, the optimum solutions would be obtained with the advantages of previous generations.
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B.2 CASE STUDY 1.0 Getting to known Loop LOOP:
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Getting to known L-Systems In the late 1960’s, the theory L-systems is propsed by a biologist Aristid Lindenmayer. It is based on the underlying logic, mathematics and chemisty of nature’s forms and can fairly easily simulate simplified plants and their growth (??). The system consists of an initial string, as marked in black circle in the left figure and a set of rules for specifying a sybol substitution can can be recursively perfomed to generate new symbol sequences.
Rules: F F=F[+F]F[-F]F Angle=26.81°
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Hoopsnake plug-in was used to generate the following species:
Rabbit plug-in was used to generate the following seireses of L-systems.
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BLOOM Project Analysis An initial aggregation created by the designers shows the possibilities of the system. With the addition of pieces by crowds, the form of the structure can be transformed into unexpected formations from the initial bench into another bench and even other urban furnitures. This is the process achieved by different kinds of alternations to explore various iterations of the initial structure and even create new species. People’s interactions are the energy for Bloom to grow. The structure only exists when thousnad of piees are put together. It illustrates the repeatition, recursion of the genetic system. It is not a single object but a “string-like” structure.
Figure 24. Transformation from bench into unpredictable formations
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Component Design 1 - Vine C B A
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Ruleset # 1 AXIOM: C A=ABC B=AC C=AB
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Component Design 2 - Tumour B
Ruleset # 2 AXIOM: A A=ABC B=AC C=AB
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Component Design 3 - Flappy
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Component Design 2 - Vine
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