While these are definitely interesting concepts to minimize traffic between classes and increase egress efficiency during an emergency, they don't seem like they would be practical for a school....
While these are definitely interesting concepts to minimize traffic between classes and increase egress efficiency during an emergency, they don't seem like they would be practical for a school.
As the author admits, they don't take in to account the "intangibles" of design.
The metrics could be expanded to include terrain maps, sun paths, existing trees and other environmental input, allowing the buildings to be highly adaptive to their context. The physics simulation could force certain boundary shape constraints.
It's been shown time and time again that things like sunlight and exposure to the outside are extremely important in both happiness and physical well-being.
I think it is also important to highlight that physically building a structure with rooms of such varied size and shape would be quite difficult. The amount of extra measuring that would be...
I think it is also important to highlight that physically building a structure with rooms of such varied size and shape would be quite difficult. The amount of extra measuring that would be required, architectural concerns to support the structure effectively, customized sizing of materials and specialized work that would be required to build a structure like this would make it very infeasible. And that's ignoring the problem of designing the interior spaces of these classrooms and the politics of fighting for the larger sized or more appropriate spaces based on what subject is being taught.
In short this algorithm needs a lot of work to be practical.
The buildings generated are evocative of cell structures in living organisms -- perhaps unsurprisingly, given how cell structures have evolved over millions of generations to solve the same...
The buildings generated are evocative of cell structures in living organisms -- perhaps unsurprisingly, given how cell structures have evolved over millions of generations to solve the same problems as the author. I think it'd be really cool to see these buildings made in real life, maybe with 3D concrete printing or other future-tech. At the very least, they'd be great to use in a sci-fi story.
As for the concerns around the "laws of architecture and design," those laws are in place given our current materials and their parameters. If we had new materials, a more efficient, cell-like building might be a better use of space!
I love this so much! I assume the non-square layouts would make it harder to buy furniture and such but even that could probably be put into the equation. Makes you wonder what's possible if you...
I love this so much! I assume the non-square layouts would make it harder to buy furniture and such but even that could probably be put into the equation. Makes you wonder what's possible if you throw traditional laws of architecture out of the window.
That’s what I find interesting about this experiment - the huge difference between spaces that are technically optimized for certain conditions and spaces that would actually be convenient to use.
That’s what I find interesting about this experiment - the huge difference between spaces that are technically optimized for certain conditions and spaces that would actually be convenient to use.
While these are definitely interesting concepts to minimize traffic between classes and increase egress efficiency during an emergency, they don't seem like they would be practical for a school.
As the author admits, they don't take in to account the "intangibles" of design.
It's been shown time and time again that things like sunlight and exposure to the outside are extremely important in both happiness and physical well-being.
I think it is also important to highlight that physically building a structure with rooms of such varied size and shape would be quite difficult. The amount of extra measuring that would be required, architectural concerns to support the structure effectively, customized sizing of materials and specialized work that would be required to build a structure like this would make it very infeasible. And that's ignoring the problem of designing the interior spaces of these classrooms and the politics of fighting for the larger sized or more appropriate spaces based on what subject is being taught.
In short this algorithm needs a lot of work to be practical.
The buildings generated are evocative of cell structures in living organisms -- perhaps unsurprisingly, given how cell structures have evolved over millions of generations to solve the same problems as the author. I think it'd be really cool to see these buildings made in real life, maybe with 3D concrete printing or other future-tech. At the very least, they'd be great to use in a sci-fi story.
As for the concerns around the "laws of architecture and design," those laws are in place given our current materials and their parameters. If we had new materials, a more efficient, cell-like building might be a better use of space!
I love this so much! I assume the non-square layouts would make it harder to buy furniture and such but even that could probably be put into the equation. Makes you wonder what's possible if you throw traditional laws of architecture out of the window.
not a single one of those classroom shapes is optimized. pentagon and triangle shaped rooms are not efficient.
That’s what I find interesting about this experiment - the huge difference between spaces that are technically optimized for certain conditions and spaces that would actually be convenient to use.