Generative Architecture and Scripting

I have been always a little bit envious of the SCI-ARCH teaching methodologies while studying architecture at the Carleton school of architecture. Their use of generative scripting technologies has been an avenue that I would have definitely loved to explore, and intent to do so in near future.

Below are a few videos that I managed to gather around YouTube that display some of the SCI-Arch student work. Unfortunately, most of the scripting in these videos is utilized towards the pragmatic purpose of physical form. I’d like to believe the calculative abilities of a computed should rarely be utilized for the generation of form, since it is an unnatural adaptation of the computer’s strengths.

It seems that while in my earlier years professors often avoided talking about ergonomics and use or statistical data with regards to architecture. They found those issues boring and unfruitful in the process of designing and preferred to leave those for the engineers and sociologists. I however always believed in a potential in marrying those sociological and calculative aspects with my architecture. This is really where I would like to see the architectural scripting to go.

Formally this work is exceptional: