The presentation will explore the prospects for collaboration between the designer's intuition and the evolutionary algorithms to foster novel design opportunities. In this new approach, the architect plays a key role in guiding the evolutionary process, evolving solutions that harmonise diverse and sometimes conflicting design objectives. The aim is to leverage the strengths of evolutionary algorithms while preserving their creative autonomy, enhancing the design process through a fusion of human intuition and computational capabilities.
Addressing Designer's intuition in Evolutionary Design Process
With the evolution of highly sophisticated computational systems, the prospect of creating a collaborative system that integrates the strengths of humans and algorithmic processes in architecture is rising as a subject of high significance. This presentation explores the evolution of biologically inspired optimisation-oriented processes in design and introduces an interactive design method which relies on human designers interacting with the algorithmic processes to enable the capture of designers' intuition and creativity. It seeks to contribute to the current debate in the field of Interactive Genetic Algorithms and their capacity to accommodate objective and subjective design aims.
Symbiotic Systems - Design with the Sustainable Imperative
A Presentation at XJTLU - Liverpool, Suzhou, by Zayad Motlib
Designing with environmental sensibility is evolving as a vital subject in architecture on both professional and academic level. We are at a critical moment wherein environmental considerations are becoming increasingly important in the design process. As the demand for green energy is increasing, buildings are expected to reduce their energy demand, as well as consumption. However, the current trend in education tends to separate architectural design courses from sustainable design. While the first treats architecture as a form of art that is devoid from any environmental responsibility, the second emphasizes the importance of the technical aspect as a separate specialized design layer. Blending the two layers, art and science, in a holistic integrated manner is a new challenge that is facing architecture on both educational as well as professional level.
The presentation will introduce the conceptual framework of some of the latest projects at AmorphouStudio that were designed in response to Dubai environmental data. Using a hybrid process of analogue tools and algorithmic codes, these projects aim to investigate the symbiotic relationship amid nature and technology to bridge the gap between aesthetic and performance.
Performative Systems
A Presentation at The University of Queensland, Australia, by Zayad Motlib
Designing with environmental sensibility is evolving as a vital subject in architecture on both professional and academic level. We are at a critical moment wherein environmental considerations are becoming increasingly important in the design process. As the demand for green energy is increasing, buildings are expected to reduce their energy demand, as well as consumption. However, the current trend in education tends to separate architectural design courses from sustainable design. While the first treats architecture as a form of art that is devoid from any environmental responsibility, the second emphasizes the importance of the technical aspect as a separate specialized design layer. Blending the two layers, art and science, in a holistic integrated manner is a new challenge that is facing architecture on both educational as well as professional level.
The presentation will introduce the conceptual framework of some of the latest projects at AmorphouStudio that were designed in response to Dubai environmental data - http://www.amorphoustudio.com. It will also demonstrate some of the design and fabrication workshops that were conducted at d-NAT (Dubai Network for Art, Architecture and Technology), and were inspired by the complex self-organizing systems found in natural organic formations and patterns - http://www.d-nat.net. Using a hybrid process of analogue tools and algorithmic codes, these projects aim to investigate the symbiotic relationship amid nature and technology to bridge the gap between aesthetic and performance.
Behavioral Topologies
Behavioral Topologies investigates the relationship between topology and form-finding strategies. Participants will be working on their own selected projects, using techniques presented in the workshop. Workshop exercises will use Polygonal Modeling in combination with Particle Systems, Structural Analysis, Topology Optimization, Evolutionary Solvers and Vectorial Fields to design forms of different scale and complexity. The proposed workflow will combine the use of Maya, Rhino, and Grasshopper with some plug-ins such as Kangaroo, Millipede, Weaverbird, and others. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to polygonal modeling in Maya, visual programming in grasshopper, and will learn how to prepare their final model for 3D Printing.
For details, check out: http://www.d-nat.net/behavioral-topologies
inFORMed Systems. A presentation at DXBDW2017
A Presentation by Zayad Motlib and Marta Krivosheek at Dubai Design Week 2017 on Nov. 13, 6:30-7:30 pm.
inFORMed Systems is an exploration of novel digital design to fabrication techniques that are inspired by the complex self-organizing systems found in natural organic formations and patterns. By examining these systems as information processes, we develop data set to inform possible design strategies using a combination of algorithmic codes and digital tools. The new design strategies aim to investigate the symbiotic relationship amid nature and technology to bridge the gap between aesthetic and performance. Drawing a parallel between natural systems behavior and computer processes, inFORMed systems are directed to produce adaptive spatial results and forms across a wide range of scales - from material to urban scale and vertical structures.
The presentation will also introduce the conceptual framework of some of the design and fabrication workshops that were conducted at d-NAT (Dubai Network for Art, Architecture and Technology) which can be viewed at http://www.d-nat.net/archived-workshops/, and some of the current interdisciplinary projects at AmorphouStudio. The demonstrated projects span across different scales, from jewelry scale to products design, furniture, architecture, and urban planning, and will focus on the design of new topologies of adaptive forms that are designed in response to Dubai environmental data. http://www.amorphoustudio.com/projects/.
Short List for MEA 2017 Design Award →
Our Project The Symbiotic Towers is in the Short List for MEA Award 2017 Concept Design of the year.
http://www.designmena.com/portfolio/mea-awards-2017-shortlist-concept-design-of-the-year
Congrats to the projects team Marta Krivosheek, Raghad Al-Ali, Laila Najib and Zayad Motlib.
Exhibition at Tashkeel →
AmorphouStudio Exhibition at Tashkeel, Nad-AlShiba, Dubai.
A collection of 3d printed pieces, along with relevant sketches and rendering demonstrating process development from hand sketches, generation of 3d printed models for concept development, to final rendering showing the pieces in full scale. The collection includes a variety of pieces of different scale and nature from experimental studies, jewelry design, to furniture and architecture.
Part 2 of the exhibition is a dress design done in collaboration with fashion designer Kay Li. The dress concept was inspired by the voronoi pattern we designed for the open plaza of the Jumeirah Gardens mixed-use project. The pattern was modified for a dress design using the same algorithm that generated it, thus merging processes between fashion and architecture.
For details check out http://www.amorphoustudio.com/installations#/tashkeel-exhibition/