apomechanes
nonlinear computational design strategies
nonlinear computational design strategies
This book presents the projects designed and fabricated during the apomechanes computational design studio in 2009 & 2010, supported by theoretical articles and professional projects by Karl Chu, Carla Leitao, Kokkugia and Ahylo, exploring computational design and its fields of materialization.
Apomechanes is an international intensive studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication.
Algorithmic design introduces processes that allow the genetic growth of complex structures and forms, with the use of simple syntactic rules. Apomechanes is an attempt to set up a unique agenda on computational design methodologies and underline the morphogenetic qualitative characteristics of the algorithmic logic. Non-linear, self-organized and emergent behaviours are intravenous injected into the core of the architectural design process, and the focus is on the inherent potential of computation to generate space.
Apomechanes is an international intensive studio held each summer in Athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication.
Algorithmic design introduces processes that allow the genetic growth of complex structures and forms, with the use of simple syntactic rules. Apomechanes is an attempt to set up a unique agenda on computational design methodologies and underline the morphogenetic qualitative characteristics of the algorithmic logic. Non-linear, self-organized and emergent behaviours are intravenous injected into the core of the architectural design process, and the focus is on the inherent potential of computation to generate space.
“... Architecture is the site for staging the dialectics between Logos and Mythos, of logic and meaning that governs the constitutive processes involved in any act of world making. It is within this larger context that the significance of the generative objects done by the apomechanes studio can be appropriated: a constructive endeavor directed towards the construction of possible objects of architecture ... they attempt to find the locus of convergence between the architecture of computation and the computation of architecture...” Karl Chu, September 2010
