As more and more advanced digital technology has been used, the
architecture is experiencing a rapid revolution in recent decades. The constantly
emerging curvy forms and complicated shapes have been built at various parts of
the world, which were fascinating and astounding at their first appearance. It
was the time I was in my undergraduate program, almost all of a sudden,
conceptions like the fractal geometry, calculus automata, L system, and so on was
spread out from the Western world to Eastern world and broader area around the
world. Computer integrated in architecture design has reshape the construction
and the experience of a space.
Though architects are designing so-called digital architecture in rhino
and grasshopper, or Revit, the architecture built eventually has turned out to
be more and more homogenous, at least in my perspective. Several successful
examples using grasshopper to create some non-Cartesian space and skins with
intensive changing holes now has far more followers than expected, which
contribute little to the new form and feeling of spaces afterward. As Jasanoff
suggested in his article about leverage points, the paradigm is the important
leverage point to change the whole system. New digital technology tools and
design ways has offered us an opportunity to jump out of the paradigm of the
Cartesian system, but it seems now we are gradually walking into another
paradigm, in which the ornamental parametric skins get more attention than the
feeling of space. The deformation of non-linear space has become less exciting
than it first showed up from my point of view.
One of the most popular word recently is AI, which represents the
ability and potential of machine simulating and learning. Actually, I think the
development of AI will be a critical factor in the evolving process of
architecture toward the future. The interaction that created between people and
space will be a revolution. In my imagination, the future digital technology would
let architecture be able to response to the changing surroundings. The
self-adaptation architecture would modify itself due to not only different
weather conditions, but also human behaviors, which build more tight connection
between people and space.
There
has been some trial projects to explore in this direction, using different
sensors to collect the data of surrounding environment and program to respond
to it, or using Arduino to explore some interaction between people and space
and objects. These are some primary exploration on creating more intuitive
connection for people and space, which attract my interest a lot. I hope to
learning more things about creating this kind of interactive architecture that
really meet various needs flexibly, not only some non-linear forms generated by
grasshopper. I think this is another way in digital technology incorporated in
architecture, and also, a more overturning way. Imagine when you walk in a
space, the wall can change their shapes to response to your footprint, all even
the wall can be penetrable if you want. This might seem like some science
fiction movie scene, which is far from reality now. But as no one would imagine
that computer can be an indispensable part in our life even 30 years ago, we
could not deny any possibility of the future development of architecture and
digital technology. I believe the interaction between space and human beings
will become increasingly interesting and useful as time moves forward.
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