Last week I attended the pre­sen­ta­tions of the asso­cia­tive design 2nd year at the Berlage research studio syn­thetic ver­nac­u­lar. Led by Peter Trum­mer and assisted by our fellow dys­turb evan­ge­list Martin Sobota, the class inves­ti­gated tra­di­tional chi­nese build­ing typolo­gies. The prin­ci­ples found in the analy­sis were used to create a set of rules to create a frame­work to para­met­ri­cally derive urban struc­ture and archi­tec­ture of an exem­plary plot in Shang­hai: Deus ex Machina.

The research group divided up into for teams, each focussing on dif­fer­ent base para­me­ters as FAR, degrees of pri­vacy, cli­mate, inter­nal room organ­i­sa­tion, sun tra­jec­to­ries. The formal deci­sions of the teams also led to vary­ing urban fab­rics, from low-​rise high-​density urban mass not unsim­i­lar to south-​american fave­las to a styled court­yard & slab net­work. The results are cut­ting edge and and visu­al­i­sa­tions of the process are breath-​takingly beau­ti­ful. But watch the movie first, then pro­ceed to the review.

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