Neal Leach Dessau Institute of Architecture, Germany, London, United Kingdom 449
to privilege performance over appearance, but rather to overcome the false distinc-
tion inherited through postmodernism and reinforced to some extent by contempo-
rary methods of construction that privilege the façade and conceal the underlying
structural logic of a building, that appearance should be divorced from performance,
that aesthetics should be divorced from function, that ornament should be divorced
from structure.
Digital Favelas by Guilherme Ressel.
This project is scripted using a formal vocabulary derived from the logic of actual favelas and
algorithms that evaluate the topography and existing amenities in the surrounding area to
generate a pattern of spontaneous urban growth. The design is continuously tested by arti-
ficial intelligence that simulates pedestrian movements generating a self-organizing process
of urban landscape formation.
URBANOIDS, Budapest by Krassimir Krastev and Fabiano Friedrich.
This project for urban renewal is generated by two interconnected processes, a multi-agent
system that simulates pedestrian flow, and a genetic algorithm that breeds optimal profiles
for the buildings based on Space Syntax logic of visibilities and sun path studies.
Bone Beam by Ismat Hossain, Noor Abid Hassan, and Slobodan Velevski
This project seeks to replicate the process of development of a bone, using cellular automata
and an iterative process of shape annealing responding to varying intensities of external load-
ing. The result is a beam with internal structure replicating that of a bone.
eifForm installation, Amsterdam by Kristina Shea with Neil Leach and Spela Videcnik.