ABSTRACT

Computation provides one avenue to customization. That has been the point of approach for THEVERYMANY, where a computational and prototypical methodology drives many other aspects of design practice, as a way to iterate through many potential built outcomes. All the experiments described are a result of explicit and encoded protocols. Explicit, clearly written protocols enact transformations to geometry through algorithmic instructions or even mathematical expressions. Protocols are also encoded because they must be formatted in a particular way: they are compiled in a text file in specific, computational syntax. That is how these transformations are made executable. One element of architecture that can be isolated for computational inquiry is the surface. In a few lines of code, one can get something that appears to be quite complex. For example, using a simple process of inflation or relaxation on a mesh, one can easily generate a complex, doubly curved geometry.