Physarum Rhapsody

Yijia Zhang

Hanjie Xie

Project Intention

Our project intends to create a new park connection that would allow people to walk and bike around the site more easily, bridging through wetlands, rivers, and high traffic.

Speculative Project Direction: Process-driven Design And The Formation Of Forms Exploration

The project speculates on the relationship between emergent processes of formation and architectural design intention, exploring the architecture that arises from this interaction. The project aims to capture architectural intents through the application of slime mold algorithms. It utilizes a series of urban planning decisions to establish a bottom-up approach, fostering self-organized design intentions. This approach represents a departure from the conventional explicit design of form, instead focusing on orchestrating intensive formation processes. By creating underlying geometric behaviors, the project enables the realization of these design intentions.