Monday, 4 May 2015

Week 9 - 250 Word Writing

SHoP architects coined the term ‘Versioning’ as the way designers and architects use technology to expand in potential effects of design in our world. The new generation of digital architects have emerged and brought key ideas and fundamentals that place great detail on the applied use of technology where technique is favored rather than the outcome. SHoP feels that ‘versioning’ should not be seen as a ideology but it being a attitude for young designers as we bring aspect s from various disciplines such as finance or food to seek out inspiration and solve problems that are seen in architecture. Versioning creates the idea where it shifts from horizontal integration (designers as simply generators of representational form) to vertical integration (designers driving how space is conceived and constructed).


We come to understand non-standard architecture as being complex organic forms that would be extremely hard to design and construct without the aid of technology. With CNC machines, BIM technology and 3D printed components, designers and constructors are able to manipulate materials into interesting forms. The term non-standard has always been refereed in the field of mathematics in which algorithmic systems can be applied for example artificial intelligence or morphogenesis. Frederic Migayrou, a professor states that for non-standard architecture, it needs to go beyond the bounds of any assumptions about form. This idea of non-standard architecture being revolved around digital tools and algorithmic calculations can be describe by a quote by Greg Lynn where he states “Producing a geometric form based on a differential equation is problematic without a differential approach to series and repetition.  

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