ABSTRACT
The function of the chemical machine is not only that of generic architecture, but also a life support for both humans and biology it harbours. The technicalities of this thesis have been developed by inter-scientific collaboration with computer scientists, material scientists and chemical engineers. The Chemical Machine is a critique of current multi-component building systems, which are based on separately fabricated parts with unsynchronized life spans. Their incapability to internally communicate and self-regulate prevents synchrony of individual life spans for the sake of overcoming premature systemic failures. The Chemical Machine learns from the adaptive biological system of self-regulation and intercellular communication between parts. This feature allows constant morphological computation for responding to ever changing environmental conditions. The Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction is a chemical reaction which is a causal model for complex biological systems. Despite the difference in constitution and composition comparative to its biological archetype the reaction successfully produces phenomenological similarities.
