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Throughout my university years I have learned a lot about the importance of light in architecture. In ancient Egypt it was used to illuminate some important hole in the pyramids. During the Roman time, in the Pantheon, the oculus would make a pretty cool monthly sun dial on the walls, plus it helped the Romans stay up to date with their wives’ menstrual cycle.
However, never did I truly appreciate the fascination with light in modern architecture. It is a cool effect, and it does remind us of our celestial neighbours, but I always thought that there is a lot more to nature and phenomenology than the use of sun bunnies and shadows.
Well, today I was proven wrong. This skillfully placed “building tattoo” can make anybodies day. This should have been in our modern architecture books!
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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:
