Cognitive Assemblies

The project deals with the study of tectonics and emergent architecture with a focus on fabrication strategies for complex design ideas. It broadens the horizons of the research-based approach from extraordinary design synthesis to robotic manufacturing processes and encourages a dialogue between them.

It is a framework / genotype with goal-oriented agent behaviours, tectonics, mathematics of voxels, fabrication strategies etc. The algorithms follow a “bottom-up” approach where the system grows and evolves up to the event of an emergent and self-organized behaviour, obeying the simple rule about the interactions of an agent-based system.

The overall idea tries to bring both the human designer and the machine (Artificial Intelligence) in a symbiotic relationship. The intent of the designer is partly captured in the generative algorithm as behaviours and partly in evaluation encoded in the designer’s intuition. The AI algorithm acts as an extended mind to the designer and helps optimise complex and repetitive design tasks. Through a constant interaction between the top -down and bottom strategies, the proposal seeks to produce an adaptive and responsive architecture.