Responsive Environments – From Drawing to Scripting

Initial Premises

 

At the same time as a changing society pushes architecture by posing a new set of characteristic problems, the new digital design media pull architecture into an uncharted territory of opportunity. The key question here is whether the exploration of the new creative opportunities can be directed towards offering effective architectural resources that can help to answer the problems posed today.

 

The AA Design Research Lab [1] is trying to address this question. We set ourselves the task to contribute to the retooling of the discipline of architecture in the face of what we perceive to be two fundamental conditions:

The challenge presented by the new level of dynamic complexity in the metropolitan life processes and the opportunity presented by the development of new powerful digital design tools.

Therefore we start from two rather general premises as points of departure of our work:

1. The task to develop complex spatial systems that could serve to organize and articulate the new social complexities.

2. The task to utilize and adapt various advanced digital methods of designing, modelling and simulation.

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