Garden Towers
Darwinian Evolution & Natural Selection
Natural selection is the process, whereby, organisms that have the greatest fitness within a given environment survive, produce offspring, and perpetuate their genomes. Over many generations an organism can evolve and adapt to become more suited to a given environment.
Parametricism
The paradigm of parametricism has become increasingly pervasive, as innovative design technologies continue to enhance the architect’s ability to versionize, iterate, and mass customize. The advent of new parametric design technologies allows architects to apply conditional forces to a base component, and its subsequent instantiations. Architects no longer design buildings, but rather create environments where forces enacted on a population accentuate and amplify their responses. For more information about parametricism, see Patrik Schumacher’s, “Parametricism as Style - Parametrcist Manifesto.”
Establishing Tower Core as Environmental Input
Constructed Environments & Adaptive Design
The Garden Tower is a study in the construction of such parametric environments. The project is informed through the establishment of base components and the introduction of environmental conditions. Traditional design methodologies were abandoned, and architectural genotype’s were established, through the development of “environments,“ to create a population of phenotype’s, whose diversity was accentuated and amplified through the manipulation of these environmental conditions. The resultant tower is the product of environmental forces being enacted on a set of base components. Genomes were given fitness parameters within a environment, and instantiated until a desirable outcome was achieved.
1. Generate Typical Floor Plates
Once the tower core is generated, a number of typical floor plates can be generated, whose footprint is relative to the size of the tower core, and whose gross area can decrease based on the relative height of the tower.
2. Rotate Tower Based on View/Light Conditions
Increasingly dense urban conditions mean light and optimal views can be at a premium. It is therefore important that a building be able to adjust itself to most effectively take advantage of these two elements.
3. Modulate Floor plate Boundary Edge
Modulation of the floor plates is done utilizing an evolutionary solver that aims to maximize the amount of garden space available on each floor, while minimizing the depth of the overhang conditions that are subsequently created.
Tower Composition Breakdown
Generate Base Extend Core | Create Volume & Twist | Brace Laterally | Transfer Load | Modulate Pods
Garden Tower Evolutionary Solver Seed
Generated floor plates
