KURT9000: Design Computation

CMYK Mapping, T.C. Kurt Hong, Fall 2015

Project Description |

One of the developments in architecture nowadays is focusing on biomimicry. The mechanism of the growth of the organic creature starts with a single stem cell. The stem cell mutates into different specific cells in relation to the external conditions. Illustrating this mechanism into architecture design may help us push the research of formation further. Stem cell has a genetic code inside, and it will mutate into different cells once the code is activated by external parameters. The growing process of the cell is similar to permutation but more complex. Thus, the algorithm of the cellular differentiation may integrate the permutation, growth and agent-based code. The target of our project is to mimic the mechanism of the DNA in the creature which would represent the skin of the architecture. Therefore, we are going to develop the cell which can grow into a facade for a building. And the cell can transform into different cells with the different shapes to form an animallike skin. The mutation may be based on the position of the cell, for example, the cell in a top position may grow into the hairs or a horn, the cell in a lower position may grow into a foot or a tail, the cell in the middle part may grow into limbs or spots. To sum up, our project is to adopt the mechanism of cellular differentiation to generate an architecture component, the facade, and to approach the growing process in nature.