Generative design: a paradigm for design research

Jon McCormack, Alan Dorin, Troy Innocent
Centre for Electronic Media Art
Monash University, Clayton 3800, Australia

Generative design offers new modes of aesthetic experience based on the incorporation of system dynamics into the production of artifact and experience. In this paper, we review a number of processes that can be explored by designers and suggest how design as a discipline can benefit from this research. These processes include self-organization, swarm systems and ant colonies, evolution, and generative grammars. We give example applications of these processes to creativity and design.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research/Papers/genDesignFG04.pdf

GENOFORM

Sivam Krish https://genoform.wordpress.com/

Body Navigation by Recoil Performance Group

THE MATERIALITY OF THE SPACE

Mariana Paz CastellanosTHESIS PROJECT
Architectural Components (from Phaenotype to Genotype)
The idea was to continue working with parametric software in order to design a space with the capacity of combining a self structured parametric skin with elements capable to control the radiosity and sound effects. The cell has a size capable to fit at least 10 people at one time, but the main issue is that it has the possibility to modify its overall shape or components by changing the parameters which are taken from the surrounding environment; some of which are the amount of light, terrain inclinations, inner space needed, etc. In order to explore its materiality and to allow a natural growth based on the main configuration of the geometry and the material itself, each individual component creates a grid capable to stretch and generate new variations. http://archmpc.blogspot.com/

Workshop: PROCESSOS DIGITAIS DE MODELAÇÃO 3D (2.ª edição)

http://krfr-1.com/seed/?p=420

THAMES GATEWAY - THE MOVIE BY ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

http://www.zahahadidblog.com/movies/2007/06/22/121

STEMcloud

by ecoLogicStudio STEMcloud has been developed as a parametric furniture system able to generate spatial atmospheres (clouds) by providing light filtration, privacy and oxygenation. STEM cloud promotes a concentrated experience of man-nature interaction in dense urban contexts where the presence of traditional vegetative systems is close to zero. A series of plug-ins add functionality and customization to the system, introducing artificial lighting, objects containers, pin-up surfaces, etc.
The parametric nature of the single modules allows for a computational definition of the overall clouds; environmental gradients of solar radiation, people flow intensity, co2 emissions can be computed and used as generative environments for the developments of specific clouds/assemblages of STEM

http://www.nousgallery.com/projectStemClouds.asp

MAGNUS LARSSON

http://www.magnuslarsson.com/