Many categorical problems of complexity and limited indeterminacy have already been codified through software as explicit informational territories [program]. Of crucial importance to these programs is their ability to mediate and reify informational bodies – inputting, conditioning and outputting data such that program-specific value and meaning are added to all three phases and posited as ontologically equivalent objects. Within this mode of design, the urgency for discretely structural strategies is paramount.
Structurally Intelligent Swarms is presented as a research trajectory that explores the set of techniques and results of having combined swarm formations, FEA software and evolutionary algorithms within parametric modeling that induce intelligent structural morphologies. Further, these morphologies are situated within normative architectural assemblies by means of explicitly defined grafting techniques and tested as new wholes. Architectural speculations are made as to refining engineered capabilities, expanding on programmatic applications and testing integrated SIS assemblies at alternative scales.
Joshua M Taron is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Environmental Design where he is co-director of the Laboratory for Integrative Design and co-chaired the ACADIA 2011 Annual Conference. He is the Principal of Synthetiques and his research has been published and exhibited internationally.
Taron presents Friday, February 17, 2012 on Speculative Structures: Structurally Intelligent Swarms at London, England's Architectural Association School of Architecture.
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