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| Kolarevic, Branko. “Digital Morphogenesis.” Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing
Intro
By the arrival of the digitalization not just improve the visualization of the finished design but design itself also adapted in to figuring out what possibilities can be reached by digitalization. There are several norms that we implement in our designs on the other hand digitalization brings us to see forward and actually think out of the box, which leads us to find variations and qualities that provide to our design. We are no longer “generate” from plans, digitalization gives us the power of manufacturing more variations in mass production. Digitalization set us free from the already known forms and provides us the possibility to of “finding form” and examine on them. Working with repetitions and symmetries is the easy parts that is safe and accepted we can produce easily and rapidly, by the digitalization we gain same ability implement same procedures to the variations, produce not singular but multiple.
Typology
A form can be changes by the forces applied on it but its topology did not. Topology is what defines the forms relations, when the force applied on it there can be variations of that relation, same topology different from. Homeomorphism is focus in relations but not geometry. There are two misunderstandings that; typology is not complex curvilinear forms and typologically produced geometries are not “Non- Euclidean”. Both Euclidean and non-Euclidean are under the same geometric universe.
Non-Euclidean
The cylinder, pyramid, cube, prism and sphere are the “primitive” geometries that create the starting point software. For Euclidean geometry there are 5 principles and the 5th principle is the one that cleats the defense of non-Euclidean geometries. 5th principle is through every point there is one and only one line parallel to any other line. Eugenio Beltrami’s ‘curved lines could appear straight, that spherical geometries could seem planer, and that curved space could appear Euclidean’ that also makes me believe that flatness is just one of the conditions of geometry. (What is flat may be curved in other dimension) Typology is defined by the parameters and parameters define a form, when we change the quantities of the parameters (force applied on the form) we define a new from but still the same typology. ‘boxes’ can be ‘blobs’ and blobs can be boxes.
NURBS
Nurbs curves are (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) easily to be controlled and provide numbers of variations by changing its values of “control points”, “weights “and “knots”. Changing the parameters of the curved line gives the multiplicity by changing the number of control point, weights that applied to points, intervals between control points, places of the knots. By digitalization it provides us to design and control all properties for the curved lines, surfaces even masses.
Parametrics
Marcos Novak ‘concerned less with the manipulation of relations, fields, higher dimensions, and eventually the curvature of space itself’. In history designs were shaped by the ability to design what you can produce. By the help of the digitalization we are able to define and control the parameters. Now we are also able to produce not just single form but multiple forms with same typology and achieve curved surfaces.