Impact of network logic on space and its making

Sulan Kolatan

pp. 196-205

in: Georg Flachbart, Peter Weibel (eds), Disappearing architecture, Basel, Birkhäuser, 2005

Abstract

KOL/MAC's digital design research has recently focused on two operative models: the chimera and co-citation mapping. A combination of these two models informs KOL/MAC's computational design methods based on network performance between heterogeneous systems. Currently, KOL/ MAC is employing these methods with the addition of artificial intelligence to its dynamic software. Networks are represented as interrelated crowds of "intelligent agents' while heterogeneity is scripted as decision-making capacity in agents. This nonreductive approach allows the management of complexity in the design process, specifically through the "nature-ing" of agents and the "nurture-ing" of relations. The scalable organizational patterns and performances are then transformed into final designs ranging from building membranes and mass-customized furniture to institutional and high rise projects.