Engi­nee­ring Design Tropism
AAC 17

Summer school in colla­bo­ra­tion with the AA Visi­t­ing Schools. The goal of this work­shop was to analyze the use of algo­rithms as a problem-solving device inte­gra­ted into the design deve­lo­p­ment process. A set of agents were program­med with growth beha­vi­ors and rules in order to become compu­ta­tio­nal design engi­nes subse­quently used to design and digi­tally grow series of archi­tec­tu­ral systems. A feed­back loop system between the input para­me­ters (design decisi­ons and envi­ron­men­tal condi­ti­ons), compu­ta­tio­nal systems and the struc­tu­ral para­me­ters was also imple­men­ted. The aim was to engi­neer speci­fic design scen­a­rios using digi­tal tech­no­lo­gies, digi­tal design pedagogy and full-scale digi­tal fabri­ca­tion stra­te­gies – not by using prede­ter­mi­ned design patterns, but by crea­ting a tool for making instant and real-time design decisi­ons during the growth process. Special atten­tion was paid to the nego­tia­tion between the desi­gner and algorithms.

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Andrei Gheorghe, Students