Wednesday 27 May 2015

CODE1110: Week 8 Summary

Snooks article, ‘Self Organised Bodies’, explores the concepts “Woven Composites” and “Swarm Matter”.

Woven Composites: This concept revolves around the idea of complex topology, linking objects or materials together to create a woven structure. This was created by a multi-agent algorithm to generate these kinds of topology. This is shown as an example through the evolution of surfaces from being a uniform or consistent structure to be a combination of different objects to create a surface.

Swarm Matter: This concept relates to the creation and development of ornaments, it explores the relationship between components, surfaces and lines. Snook claims “while there is no hierarchies encoded into the can be extracted that through ornamental design and the application of complex geometries, there is a hierarchy that develops through the deliberation of the design”.
Furthermore, in Picon’s ‘The Surface as Architecture’, he discusses the idea of hypersurfaces and how it allows a bridge to be created between an architectural surface and cyberspace. Picon explains the variety of hypersurfaces, comparing them to different cultural factors such as clothing fashion.


Both Picon and Snooks view surfaces as a design feature or element that creates unique spaces and gives a structure a complete form as well as representing a place, depending on the intention of its placement and design.              

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