Selective interference emergent complexity informed by programmatic, social and performative criteria

This research aims to demonstrate if a holistic approach to generative architectural design is feasible using algorithms and techniques now common in architecture studios, within the context of a twelve months design thesis undertaken in a professional architecture programme. The final stage of research executes on the strategy of bringing tributaries of information together at logical junctions to create a start-to-finish generative tool in a single Grasshopper definition. By formalizing and simplifying the intersections between discrete processes, a complex “open box” design structure is developed that produces responsive, novel conceptual designs in a marriage of designer input and computer processing.