APPENDIXES II - PRELIMINARY DESIGNS GENERATIVE SYSTEMS (FIRST) RECURSIVE BRANCH
Fig.159 - Topology Mapping Process
The first concept for how to layout the building across the site was based on using the overlayed results from the anaysis to identify suitable points, and then cluster these based on their distribution. Then connect them with a recursion, and create a series of different nodes. ‘Ends” would connect the entry points of the site with other nodes (and can be used as the basis for circulation). ‘Dots’ would connect to other nodes in the building but nothing else (analogous to dead end, quite parts of the building). Finally, ‘Knots’ would be central points connecting with all other nodes and each other (ie places where the main components of the program can be placed). In the process of searching for suitable generative systems to create the area and Fig. 160 - Topology Generated from Analysis volumes of the building, this approach was abandoned.
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