Interdisciplinary process driven performative morphologies: a morphogenomic approach towards developing context aware spatial formations

Abstract

Architectural praxis is in continuous state of change. The introduction of information technology driven design techniques, constantly updating building information modeling protocols, new policy demands coupled together with environmental regulations and cultural fluctuations are all open-ended dynamic phenomena within which contemporary architectural constructs have to efficiently perform. This dynamic meta-context brings about with it a vital thrust on developing digitally driven adaptive design processes and techniques for the production of performative architectural morphologies. Conceiving the built form (at variable scales) as an ambitious exercise in digitally driven bottom-up associative, context driven formations of inter-dependent, ubiquitously communicating spatial components rather than focusing on the development of a top-down form centered approach thus attains a vital interdisciplinary process driven research and design position in the contemporary.
This research article exemplifies upon one such novel information integrated, contextual data driven generative design process: Morphogenomics, being experimented with at Hyperbody, TU Delft, under the author’s guidance. Morphogenomics deals with the intricacies of morphological informatics, specifically outlining the relationship between contextual information and its associative linkage with the generation of performative morphology. The research article puts forth a logical underpinning of spatially distributed ubiquitous communication and parametric computational frameworks by means of two research cases:
a. The development of Performative Skin systems (at a component scale)
b. The development of a distributed network city along the A2 highway, Netherlands (at an architectural and urban scale).