Unfolding of a Community from Generative Code: The Riverside Community of Strood
02/12/200542-page draft on the generative process for Strood Housing, part of the United Kingdom governmental policy to rebuilt massive amounts of housing. The proposal was based a new methodology that builds on the qualitative evaluations of users, and generates a design that “unfolds” throughout the process of design and construction. It used a kind of “code” based upon the sequence of steps taken by its participants, in “open source” fashion to generate adaptive forms. There is also a 36-page draft, Version 18, dated Oct. 28, 2005.
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The Sequence of Unfolding - Generative Codes for the Design Process
In architecture, as in other things, the "right" sequence is of vital importance. It is a generative sequence of progressive differentiations, which allow space to unfold in the right order. Each differentiation acts on the product of the previous ...
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Dynamics of a Growing Neighborhood - Rules and Patterns for Laying out a Neighborhood
Neighborhoods and communities grow and change over time, and the effect of time on the process of its adaptation on real needs is huge, and leads to types and styles of order quite different from any planned arrangement, based on ...