exomorph integrations

Mohammad(s): Final 03

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Mohammad (s): Final 02

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Mohammad(s) : Final 01

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Gradients, Part X

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Gradients, Part IX

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Gradients, Part VIII

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Final model

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interactive system 6

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interactive system 5

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Interactive system 4

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Interactive system 3

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Interactive system 2

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Interactive system 1

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Homologous Invasion !!!!

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The Pattern of movement on site is envisaged as a emergence system set out of forces ,over a time to breed a new species ,which still has the inherent gene.

The Agents(here a cube)takes up a network of trails to agglomerate quantitatively and qualitatively over a time to give rise to varying spaces,these spaces adapt,communicate and influences both -in the system and outside the system(study from abstract machine).

Thus the individual agents or trail makers account for a major change in the network to give rise to a new population behavior.

Behaviour 4

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Behaviour 3

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Behaviour 2

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Behaviour

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Final model

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Final model

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Summarizing viscosity

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Analyzing the 'inspiration':

Sequence of operational points at which gensis occurs

2008-03-09T19:58:00.000-07:00

presentation 1

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flocking video

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Gradients, Part VII

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Gradients, Part VI

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Interstitial spaces

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Mohammad(s): Mass Distributing Strategy (surface tension)

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Gradients, Part V

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The pattern of movement -static frame

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The global cells from the fine cell......a formation

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Evolving

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Process......Cells in interaction !!!

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Process......Cells in interaction !!!

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Idea of many.......Relation between form force and formation

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Interacting Systems

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Practicing shaders

exercise 2

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An exercise to study emergence in a single system

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Exercise 1

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Defining characteristic

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Gradients, Part IV

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Deforomation tools > bend

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Comments would be appreciated...

Second deformation type acting both vertically and horizontally.
Tool: non-linear bend

More on wave deformation: changing plane angles.

Gradients, Part III

2008-03-08T14:15:00.001-08:00

Mohammad(s) : Diverse spectrum of interstices

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Process....static frame

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Process of emergence-static frame 3

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Process....static frame 2

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Starting Process....static frame 1

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a step towards the abstract machine

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Active interactions

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Gradients, Part II

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Deformation tools > wave

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"First order emergent structure occurs as a result of shape interactions"

Seemingly regular grid from above, after 1st application of deformation: wave 1

2nd application of deformation: wave 2

Gradients, Part I

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Mohammad, sections of my abstract machine

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flocking aliens......a space in space

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flocking aliens in cohesion

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viscosity

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viscosity

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viscosity

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?!@!!!*%..!!

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viscosity

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Flocking aliens

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alien

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Mohammad (s): Seductive plane

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Mohammad, A dry place: holes and caves

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Final Review: Exomorphic Integrations, Die Angewandte Vienna

2008-02-24T14:03:00.000-08:00

Now this was the end of a 9 days module that Sandra and I held at the Urban Strategies studio of the Angewandte. Urban Strategies is the postgraduate program of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. This module was for the freshmen of the course, in order to familiarize them with a couple of concepts of advanced architecture design. Issues such as emergence, self-organization, gradients, topologies and more are explored within this course, and casted into embryonic ideas of possible urban textures. We will continue the course next semester and develop the ideas that emerged throughout the course in more detail. Hernan Diaz Alonso, Head of LA based architecture firm Xefirotarch was so kind to join into the panel of critics, the panel also included Brennan Buck, Oliver Bertram, Reiner Zettl and my partner Sandra Manninger.

Mohammad

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several trials to generate geometries pertaining to what I`m learning from my abstract machine model

Mohammad ,Topology

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Module Outline

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Emergent behaviour in the formation of urban textures.

The main aim of this course is the exploration of systems of emergence as a design strategy for urban design. Instead of using tools of composition we will use tools of behaviour in order to scrutinize the selforganization of entities within an urban scheme. Thus creating patterns of materialization, densification and voids, striving for minimal energy consumption in correlation with the topography of the site and the various constraints applied to the structure. The constraints, the rules applied to the design, create variations in the resulting condition.

Complex populations

All of the above phenomena can be observed in organic systems of various levels, from very primitive lifeforms to higher level entities, as well as in anorganic entities. In this case intensive forces create emergent behavior such as hurricans or patterns formed in sand by waves crashing on the beach, and thus creating a constant flow of infinetly different patterns. Emergent properties can also be defined and discribed by stochastic(2) systems, as for example the behaviour of gas under pressure. The example of gas under pressure shows that the individual molecules are moving in deterministic paths, but that the paths of a population of molecules is computationaly, and practically, unpredictable. A huge population of molecules will behave in stochastic characteristics; filling the container, striving for equal pressure, diffusing along concentration gradients and so on. All of this behaviours can be tagged as emergent properties of a system.

stochastic behaviour within an atmospheric cloudfield

(www.met.rdg.ac.uk/ clouds/research.html)

Propable Cities
Why is this important? Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks and artificial intelligence, all of this fields rely on stochastics in order to solve problems by using probabilistic methods. In Architecture this notion can lead us to novel approaches where the notion is that a problem itself may be stochastic, as in planning under uncertainty, resulting in emergent urban conditions.

Branching
Evolutionary algorithm creating a branching condition in 2D, created with Mathematica
Emergent structures are patterns not created by a single event or rule. There is nothing that commands the system to form a pattern, but instead the interactions of each part to its immediate surroundings causes a complex process which leads to order. One might conclude that emergent structures are more than the sum of their parts because the emergent order will not arise if the various parts are simply coexisting; the interaction of these parts is central. Emergent structures can be found in many natural phenomena, from the physical to the biological domain. For example, the shape of weather phenomena such as hurricanes are emergent structures.
It is useful to distinguish three forms of emergence structures. First-order emergence structures occurs as a result of shape interactions (for example, hydrogen bonds in water molecules lead to surface tension). Second-order emergence structures involves shape interactions played out sequentially over time (for example, changing atmospheric conditions as a snowflake falls to the ground build upon and alter its form). Finally, third-order emergence structures is a consequence of shape, time, and heritable instructions. For example, an organism's genetic code sets boundary conditions on the interaction of biological systems in space and time.

Algorithmic Botany: Branching structure in 3D

Raybranch288

For the creation of urban textures we will rely on the use of third-order emergence structures. The students will follow a set of rules that will create a complex entity evolving in four dimensions.

Rules:

Extensive vs Intensive (3)

Gradients

Stratification

Topology

Viscosity

This five issues will cover, in varying combinations of three, the student's projects and the scrutiny of the issue of emergence and complexity. The analysis of complex systems that are sensitive to its initial conditions differs from the issue of chaotic systems, as clearly stated by Colander(4) the study of complexity is the opposite of the study of chaos. Complexity is about how a huge number of extremely complicated and dynamic set of relationships can generate some simple behavioural patterns, whereas chaotic behaviour, in the sense of deterministic chaos, is the result of a relatively small number of non-linear interactions (Cilliers, 1998).

Complex systems may exhibit behaviors that are emergent, which is to say that while the results may be deterministic, they may have properties that can only be studied at a higher level. For example, the termites in a mound have physiology, biochemistry and biological development that are at one level of analysis, but their social behavior and mound building is a property that emerges from the collection of termites and needs to be analysed at a different level.

The rules will be applied in a twofold process:
First the creation of a material behaviour based model.
This models will explore the behavior of one material (plaster) in different levels of viscosity on a large scale model, bearing specific constraints eleborated by the students following the rules above (stratification, connectivity ea.) the results are shaped by various intensive forces (form in combination with gravity, flow forces, varying viscosity, friction..) The matter of emergence as a system for the generation of advanced behaviour in an urban texture.

Selforganization4
Analogue modeling of selforganizational patterns ©SPAN2006

The result of this models are further scrutinized by translating the selforganizational qualities into a machinic language. The analysis of the analogue model serves as a guideline for the development of digital design tactics. The models are moved into a machinic environment, wether this is by manual measurement, in an extensive process, or other measuring methods is up to the student. The importance of this step lies in the abbility of the student to interpret the intensive process applied to the first model in order to understand the potentials for an urban pattern (he density of the scaffold, variations in density and also behavioral densities). It is by no mean necessary to translate the analogue model in a literal way, but more important to understand the conceptual forces driving form, program, growth of urban patterns, textures, porosities, chromatics, gradients, and scale.
One of the main points withim this exploration will be the scrutiny of the models in terms of performance as an urban condition.

Pavilion2213
TopMod Models exploring various degrees of porosity (maxwellrender).©SPAN2006
In a further process the students have to find their own sets of rules based on the observations and conclusions from the physical model, this rules are the base for the projects development into a synthetic ecology by the use of a topological mesh modeling software. The problem of material behaviour and selforganization is interweaved with the problem of Topology and Selfconnectivity, thus the use of TopMod as a potential tool for the examination of the problem. The Software faccilitates the creation of digitally fabricated models that will buid one part of the final presentation.

Por6
3D printed model of one porous exploration. ©SPAN2006

The students are supposed to work an a single site in a communal effort. The site is divided among the students in order to create variaty within the site, constrains in form of the neccesary connectivity between the various projects have to be elaborated by the students.

Schedule:
1: Analogue Model, based on chickenwire and plaster, students have to follow varying agendas. The model has to measure a minimum of 1m x 1m
2: Translation of the model into TopMod & Maya
3: Abstract machines: explanatory maps and plans of the concepts and observation results out of both the analogue and the digital model.
In 1:500 scale.
4: 3D printed model of crucial points of the design, depicting the discovered framework based on the rules (Extensive vs Intensive, Stratification, Connectivity, etc) The models have to be nested within a milled base of the site.
5: Two A4 pages minimum TxT explaining the conceptual background as well as the exploration in terms of performance within an urban texture.
6: For the final presentation we will rely on a strict basic graphic and model representation for everyone. I.e.: Layout, font, model scales…

Acompaining workshops & lectures:

1: Introduction into TopMod
2: Lecture on Machine Learning
3: Troubleshooting in Zprint

Reading List for Students:
D´Arcy Thompson: On Growth and Form
Stephen Hyde: The Language of Shape
Ernst Haeckl: Artforms in Nature
Jaap A. Kaandorp: The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory)

Notes:
1: Goldstein, Jeffrey (1999): "Emergence as a Construct: History and Issues", Emergence: Complexity and Organization 1: 49-72
2: Stochastic, from the Greek word “Stochos” (Aim, Guess, means of, relating to) is characterised by conjecture and randomness. A stochastic process is one whose behaviour is non-deterministic in that a state does not fully determine its next state.
3: See also the paper “The machinic phylum” by Manuel de Landa, as well as :Manuel DeLanda & Peter Lamborn Wilson , 'Cities and Theories of Self Organization'
Manuel DeLanda: ‘Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture’
4: Colander, D. (2000): The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics, E. Elgar, Northampton, MA.

Network

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INFLUENCE

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nucleus [r]evolution

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Derivation

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nucleus [r]evolution

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sofia - CROSS EMBADDINGS

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INFLUENCE-STRATIFICATION

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Pattern - element

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The basic element of the pattern is created and has been manipulated by waves.

And 'applicants' for the main entrance:

flora

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Devastation Close to Void

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Maya Shader

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Here is the link to the shader we are going to use:

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/shaders/Beavasoft-Volkswagen-3461.html

As you can see it is green. Change the color setting by double clicking the blinn of this layered shader and changing the agressive green color into white. Don´t make it pure white, add little bit of red or yellow to give the shader a slight sense of atmosphere.

Topology - Movement

2008-01-24T09:41:00.001-08:00

(click image to see animation)

(click image to see animation)

Final Review approaching..

2008-01-24T03:27:00.000-08:00

Final Review Approaching..
Dear Students,
the end of our course is approaching on high speed and we are very curious about your final results. So here are some guidelines and comments for the end of the Exomorphic course.

I´m happy to announce that Hernan Diaz Alonso, Head of the LA based architecture firm Xefirotarch, and Oliver Bertram (Assistant in the Greg Lynn studio) will attend the review and comment your projects

First of all I would like to congratulate all of you for the great effort you put into this course, and the great results you shared with us on this blog. Keep up the momentum generated so far and we will end with excellent results. For the last couple of days we are planning to proceed as follows: I will post now some guidelines for the material we want to see for the final presentation.

Saturday 26th, 4pm is the day: Presentations...

Some technical things about the presentation format:

Coloration/Chromatics:
We would like all of you to rely on a specific coloration scheme of your projects, concerning the renderings, as we want to see the geometry of your projects clearly. The main color should be white. You can also create differentiation with the surface quality (Glossy, Opaque, metallic surfaces, Brushed metal, Glass etc) Of course you can put your eye on how to work with light and shadow to achieve specific cinematic effects and atmospheres. No bump mappings, as those are not a clear representation of the geometry you created originally. Render with the rendering Engine in Maya you feel comfortable with.

Renderings, images: Show a brief summary of the progress of your design: From the Abstract machine, to the analysis of the result, to the explorations and speculations on the issues within the computer. Try to create a stringent story-line to explain your project clearly in full extent.

Presentation
We will rely on the concept of presenting the work over the blog. No printing required. Let´s call this our contribution to sustainable teaching, and we have all the projects documented together on the net. My advise to you: make a copy of the entire blog on a CD or Harddrive, who knows how long this will stay online. By making a copy you can store this course away.

We are really looking forward to see all of you and your projects.

Best

Matias del Campo

"Wavestation"

2008-01-23T19:29:00.000-08:00

viscosity > flow > wave

::waves present on site::
: sound : electrostatic (trains) : radio (mobile phones) : crowd (movement flow) :

the offspring

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Ideas

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1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0OUqMqrrrk&NR=1

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB2aWiesq0g

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGU5Zff1DXQ

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjP-gJ3OUPg

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDgyuL2jd7k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpDKRrS9aqE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVG6zeZIY2Y

Sachin Thorat_STRATIFICATION

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topology

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panta rhei..

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V1, V2

the beauty and the beast

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Rashmi Jois_TOPOLOGY

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Mohammad practicing topmod

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interdependance&interaction

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cells

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...the beast

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transformation twist

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gradients from liquid to solid

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1. mass becomes solid where temperature is on it's highest point > central station

the beauty and....

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