Pantic, Igor; Klemmt, Christoph; (2018) Discrete Cellular Growth. In: Bieg, Kory, (ed.) 2018 TxA Emerging Design + Technology Conference Proceedings. (pp. pp. 73-81). Texas Society of Architects: Austin, TX, USA.

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Abstract

The use of time-based computational simulations in architectural design has led to highly complex geometries; however, those often are difficult to construct. In order to generate more easily buildable structures, we therefore attempted the integration of the placement of identical discrete components into a time-based growth simulation. We present a research project focusing on computational cellular growth which simulates the development of organisms as accumulations of cells, discretization of the resulting surfaces, and their construction through prefabricated components. Different intercellular behaviors as well as external forces acting onto the cells were explored during the design process. One of the outcomes was constructed physically as a 1:1 large-scale prototype and compared to a free-form structure that was generated by a similar growth simulation. The placement of the components results in geometries that still share many of the qualities of the previous free-form growth structures, but which at the same time exhibit distinct geometric behaviors of their own.

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