Reconfigurable Molds as Architecture Machines (2008)
article⁄Reconfigurable Molds as Architecture Machines (2008)
abstract⁄In The Architecture Machine 1970, Nicholas Negroponte postulates the development of design machines wherein the ‘design process, considered as evolutionary, can be presented to a machine, also considered as evolutionary, and a mutual training, resilience, and growth can be developed.’ The book, dedicated to ’the first machine that can appreciate the gesture,’ argues for developing machines with human like qualities. This paper aims to develop an alternative trajectory to the ’evolutionary’ architecture machine, this time not towards anthropomorphism but responsiveness. The aim on one level is the same to create machines that appreciate the gesture. However our approach is tied to more modest aims and means that bring current thinking on evolutionary processes and the forming of materials together. The reconfigurable mold RCM is an architecture machine that produces parts that can be combined to create more complex organizations. The molds are simple analog computers that employ various continuous scales like volume, weight and heat to develop their unique components. Parametric alterations are made possible by affecting these measures in the process of fabrication. An underlying material that is instrumental in the molds is rubber, whose variable elasticity provides unique possibilities for indexing the gesture that remains elusive for industrial processes.
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| Year |
2008 |
| Authors |
Khan, Omar. |
| Issue |
Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, |
| Pages |
286-291 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
reconfigurable-molds-architecture-machines |
