SCENARIO

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR

System Test On Specified Site

The focus was on the simulation environment on a 1km2 area of the 80km site, creating a machine ecology in which the agents used data from the landscape to strategize and self-organize. The simulations were repeated multiple times until the generated morphology was able to effectively redirect sand particles.

Non-Structural Influence

Structural Influence

A.D.A “2000 LINES OF CODE”

MArch - AADRL COMPUTATIONAL WORKSHOP

Architectural Association, London

PROJECT TEAM

Selim Helse

Sahar Gohari

Zeinab Muneam

Swati Singh

Luisa Pires

Harunn Gokul

COURSE TUTOR

Dr. Shajay Bhooshan

COURSE ASSISTANT

Cesar Fragachan

PROJECT YEAR

2021

The objective of this project is to use code as a computational tool to have more control over design and to use that framework to generate a variety of specified forms. This first scope was to use particle systems to map out a distribution of points, control the points based on multiple parameters and to use these parameters to influence specific distributions which will then be substituted with voxels, creating a box distribution network. The second scope is to design geometries that will be placed inside each voxel. These geometries must be placed and vary parametrically within the network to compliment the stability, connectivity, and the density of the global form.

Tests are first conducted within modelling tools before computing large scale results. Finally, fabricating the aggregations by building a framework between the voxel network and geometries outside of the digital realm. As a study reference for parameter change, functionally graded materials that have gradual change in parameters within them, the composition of these materials depend on the position of the particles in them. Therefore, they can be classified based on these varying parameters that result in different amounts of strenghth and other features.