DELEUZE AND
THE USE OF THE GENETIC ALGORITHM IN ARCHITECTURE
Manual de Landa, Adjunct Associate
Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at
Columbia University
De Landa discusses the use of
genetic algorithms in architecture in relation to three forms of philosophical
thinking; populational, intensive and topological. The first concept is that
when considering genetic algorithms you must think in terms of the entire population
of reproductions that are occurring, not just the individual generators or a
specific outcome. The second is that when an object is divided there are
measurable quantities that are also divided such as area and weight, but there
are also some characteristics which are not divided, such as pressure or
temperature. These latter characteristics are “intensive” characteristics,
which are the critical traits that must be passed from generation to
generation. Finally is the concept of topological thinking, which means the
architect must consider an abstract geometry that can be twisted and bent
without breaking, in order to develop a significant population of offspring.
Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi, Hani Rashid
and Lis
e Anne Couture
The
concept of intensive features is an important way of thinking. The process of
distilling architecture into those types of features, which can't
be divisible or scale-able is an interesting exercise which
seems to be worth further exploration and analysis.
To return to the genetic algorithm, if evolved architectural
structures are to enjoy the same degree of combinatorial productivity as
biological ones they must also begin with an adequate diagram, an “abstract
building” corresponding to the “abstract vertebrate”.
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