Versioning: Evolutionary Techniques in Architecture
Week of March 6th Readings
"While Simulation remains a useful formal estimate of future organizational strategies, versioning of vector-based information allows immediate results to be transformed and refined as the previous tests feed additional data through the framework of intentionality."
"The end is in the beginning" - TS Eliot
The practice of architecture is outdated, at best, no longer is it acceptable to draw plans and sections. The current economic and ecological crisis demand performative modeling. Versioning, with its 4D capabilities can create an interactive interface in which parameters, metrics, and data can be tested within a geo-spatial framework.
Advanced economics, intelligence, marketing, almost all fields incorporate predictive computer modeling. No longer are architects | designers left to rules of thumb and mere style, within versioning lies a movement to create a reactive and pre-active architectural massing. Simulations can drive the design experience, on a number of parameters, creating new methodologies of practice, which in turn, yield new product.
Versioning, in combination with mass alternative production, can yield an unique architecture in which each individual modulus is executed to comply with a specific set of parameters yet fit into the logic of the whole.
No longer is architecture, urbanism, production dependent on "logique de la grue." A potential for customization, a kin to Brunelleschi's modulating brick of Florence, can redefine architecture, construction and production.
