Integrated Urban Morphology
scripting language: rhino pytohn
The concept of environmental integration is more often than not reduced to the question of lowering
the energy consumption of buildings instead of trying to react to the complex reciprocities between
buildings and their climatic surroundings. This is formed of a practice which repeats typology and
applies technology as a kind of adaption, rather than revisit morphology to develop new principles for
the integration of environmental performance to building form.
Design processes where the “design” and “evaluation” steps can be combined so that solutions are all
evaluated with the same level of detail. It is proposed in the research, that evolutionary algorithms be
applied to the development of environmentally adapted urban housing morphologies. The work seeks
the potential for evolutionary algorithms in early design stages to produce results that already incorporate
and anticipate criteria that are introduced in the later design stages of convention design processes.
The target is to generate solutions for climate-adapted building morphologies that are non-typological but
still reach a degree of plausibility in the context of contemporary building methods.
The project focused on the development and testing of the evaluation steps in the evolutionary process.
This testing revolved around the precision in values returned from the evaluation process as well as the
variable ranking of priority between different criteria. It was also investigated how significantly or
insignificantly the general population of individual geometries evolved when different criteria where prioritized.
Adaptive Linear Network Topology
Conceptual model exploring the potential of self organising linear networks.
scripting language: rhino pytohn
This project explores the connection between advanced computational design techniques and the
engagement of reality in the production of architecturally embedded geometry.
Processes I explore how contemporary modes of digital design to production including parametric exploration,
performative design, solid modeling, computer numerically controlled fabrication and material studies contribute
in the setting up of a flexible design strategy.
Non-Linear Computational Design Strategies
scripting language: rhino pytohn
There is a conscious redefining of material constrains through pattern and code, which incubates a search
for progressive manufacturing methods. Pure algorithmic design encapsulates the potential for new patterns,
which manifest around generative procedures through scripted logic.
This abstract material logic embodiment enables an engagement with the complexities of organizational space.
Drawn from the purgatory of design, demonstrate a state in computation.
Digital Drawing IV Fractals
scripting language: processing
The Sustainable Pedestrian Bridge for Ecotopia Dokdo
There is often too much focus on the well being of cities but not enough on rural areas. Evidently, the
current conditions of Dokdo, identifies this problem. Dokdo is a rural area with no major attractions and
residents lack the basic everyday living facilities. There is a need to provide for the residents of Dokdo.
“The Dokdo Bridge” is part of a solution to improve the lives of residents in Dokdo. With this bridge, it
allows residents to conveniently travel by foot to the eastern and western part of Dokdo. The bridge also
acts as a power generator from ocean waves providing electricity to the houses of Dokdo.
Once realised, “The Dokdo Bridge” can be a tourist attraction which brings commercial activity and financial
benefits to Dokdo. The financial benefits will help resolve the current low population Dokdo faces and allow
for recognition.
In concluding, “The Dokdo Bridge” is not merely a bridge. It brings connectivity, communication, equality,
integration and development to Dokdo. Dokdo at its current state is well behind the technological era and if
this continues, Dokdo will soon perish. The only key to the future of Dokdo is sustainable technology,
improving its current state and implementing with sustainable technology so that coexistence between
nature and human can evolve.
Adaptive Agent Based Extreme Structures
Poly-scalar embodiment of information patterns within matter itself is reprogramming morphological
features of the built environment and refining its performative capacities. This project is exploring
the shift from the technique-based approach that dominated generative practices within architecture
in the recent past towards the more explicit computational approach by engaging with the nature of
the code and its potency to rewrite existing protocols directly. It is developing computational entities
based on increasingly high populations of self-organizing agents capable of adaptive architectural
proto-behaviors within the fabric of poly-behaviors within the fabric of poly-scalar design ecologies.
scripting language: processing
Digital Drawing III
Code based intensive drawing
Deep Surface
This design research oriented studio focused on two questions; how much information can a surface
hold? How much information is useful for architectural design?
The intensive focus was developed around script based processes to explore a range of relational
intelligences. Beginning with local or element to element intelligences, and building through to deep
surface and manufacturing protocols, the studio developed a complex array of overlapping systems of
relationships in the service of highly articulated, intelligent and controlled surface conditions. The final
results represent a small area of roof surface for a large manufacturing plant, developed through initial
2D relationships to high level geometry control, structural integration, environmental performance and
adaptation to architectural program.
Moving from prototype to digital model and back again prioritizes an understanding of the design space
as primarily an informatics one, that also requires contemporary designers to develop methods of
information handing, storage and control. In this fluid information space, data becomes material by taking
on texture, scale, and spatial effect. The number of overlapping systems criteria integrated into the
information set ultimately produces high performing complex assemblages that develop their own spatial
and aesthetic logics.
Organized Complexity
Intensity Surface
Digital Drawing II
