A.2 Design Computation
Computation and Computerization Computation is the procedure of calculation. Computation is about the exploration of indeterminate, vague, unclear, and often ill-defined processes; because of its exploratory nature, computation aims at emulating or extending the human intellect. It is about rationalization, reasoning, logic, algorithm, deduction, induction, extrapolation, exploration, and estimation. Computerization is the act of entering, processing, or storing information in a computer or a computer system. Computerization is about automation, mechanization, digitization, and conversion. Generally, it involves the digitization of entities or processes that are preconceived, predetermined, and well defined. While the relationships between “a computerized thing” and “a computational thing” are still very close to each other. We might even say that a computerized design is the reason of computational design.
According to Oxman’s reading, in seeking to investigate and to develop systems in which there is an integral relationship between these models and concepts, a great source of knowledge exists in the design principles of nature. For example the biometry, it can be used in computation in architecture design. The definition and formalization of biometric principles of design is potentially a significant contribution to design knowledge. Digital morphogenesis can combine the tectonics of digital material and per-formative simulation to create naturally ecological systems. It is in the computational modelling of natural principles of per-formative design of material systems that we can potentially create a second nature, or a sounder architecture with respect to material ecology.
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