Parawares Studio | GSAPP Columbia | 2007Spring
Alisa Andrasek with Gil Akos
Network Parallelism : Visible and Invisible Post-Public Structuring
This studio explored the shift from the technique-based approach that has dominated generative architectural practices in the recent past, toward the more explicit computational approach by engaging with scripting directly in an open source manner, addressing a growing culture of collective computational knowledge emerging within the discipline.
Rather than individualities as subject or form, design is understood as genetic inscription. The parallel reality of the invisible code is a common ground for multiple actualizations. Immense in terms of their algorithmic origin, these systems are able to support the probabilistic and improvisational nature of programmatic patterns.
As a means of addressing a more conventional understanding of architectural program – that which fixes and regulates – students considered logics that are provisional and interactive in nature, and thus invested themselves in the processes of autonomy and invention. This offered an opportunity for participatory occupancy and creative forces of multitude. Students worked with the idea of production of space through the interaction of its inhabitants and with the higher definition and resolution of the fabric of the space.