Generative Design
Design and buidling processes have changed dramatically over the last years.
With the integration of computation into the modelling process and recent developments in accessibilty through new media devices and methods, the way of thinking, exploring and (re-)producing objects and spaces has initiated a paradigm shift in architecture and design.
The broad access to digital tools, CAD CAM production utilities and fabrication methods via open source networks, fablabs and D.I.Y. communities enable fast and manifold production of shapes. High performance and smart materials provide enhanced building opportunities and call for alternative concepts for architectural reproduction of space. Complex computational building and planning strategies and programs create new opportunities in economical and social aspects of architecture. Democratic design and participation through generated, emergent processes become calculable and applicable.
Besides developing new methods for creating complex structures and learning parametric modeling techniques, the main focus lies on the integrative process of transforming virtual objects into 1:1 built prototypes. Only at this scale complex coherences and material properties can be examined and a true understanding of form and space is achieved.
