Toward a Behavioral Design System: An Agent-Based Approach for Polygonal Surfaces Structures (2015)
article⁄Toward a Behavioral Design System: An Agent-Based Approach for Polygonal Surfaces Structures (2015)
abstract⁄The following research investigates the development of an agentbased design method as an integrative design tool for polygonal surface structures. The aim of this research is to develop a computational tool that selforganizes the emergence of polygonal surface structures from interaction between its constitutive lattices. This research focuses on the ethological level of morphogenesis that is relevant to the animal or insect societies, whereby agents mediate the material organizations with environmental aspects. Meanwhile, behaviorbased approaches are investigated as a bottomup system to develop a computational framework in which the lowerlevel features constantly interact. The lowerlevel features such as material properties e.g., geometric descriptions are abstracted into building blocks or agents to construct the agent’s morphology. The abstracted principles, which define the agent’s morphology, are aggregated into a generative tool to explore the emergent complexities. This exploration coupled with the generative constraint mechanisms steers the collective agents system toward the cloud of solutions hence, the collective behaviors of agents constitute the polygonal surface structures. This polygonal system is a bottom up approach of developing the complex surface that emerges through topological and topographical interaction between cells and their surrounding environment. Subsequently, the integrative system is developed through agentbased parametric modelling, in which the knowledgebased system as a topdown approach is substituted with the agent system together with its morphological features and significant behaviors.
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| Year |
2015 |
| Authors |
Baharlou, Ehsan; Menges, Achim. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 2105: Computational Ecologies: Design in the Anthropocene |
| Pages |
161-172 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
toward-behavioral-design-system |
