Complex Geometry: Theverymany

THOUGHTS ON COMPLEX GEOMETRY

The potentials of the human mind are unlimited.

They have been proved through the centuries by the progress we humans have made in science.

The time has come though, that one of mans creations can actually produce the complex calculations men would need centuries to carry out. Computer science has managed to bring non-Euclidian geometries close to each one of us, and to make their use a part of our everyday life.

And of course, the more our tools expand, the more our thought flies towards the unknown and incomprehensible.

That’s exactly the way complex mathematic sequences and calculations have entered the contemporary fields of architecture. The progress of computers has allowed us to approach forms that some years ago seemed unbelievable to design. We can now produce a form from algorithmic sequences and we can actually create them. The human mind and hand is now merely the coordinator of the whole process that is carried out through specialized software. Thus, architects are asked to think in a different way, always using their digital tools from the very beginning of the concept.

Were this process is going to lead, we don’t know. Is there an end to it all, we cannot answer. All we can do is to learn the tools as well as possible, so as to control them better on the one hand, and to be able to use their potentials on the other hand.

“combinational processes”

Putting different input in one code or even the same input at different times can give us totally different outcomes

The person who programs the whole thing is supposed to have the actual control of things, but not even him can imagine the whole range of results.

Of course it demands huge software power for these procedures to be carried out. As computation proceeds and becomes more complex, technology must follow-or vice versa.

With the increasing use of scripting and automated processes complex systems and analytical processes are possible. For instance at the ever many there are many examples of the ability to use comparative algorithms to produce systems that are similar to those found in nature or in theory ones that build on them selves to increase complexity while still referring to certain consistencies through out this provides for structural systems that no longer relies on individual members but all the members as a whole building onto themselves.

This we believe is not only the future of architecture but of complex systems in general. This will be seen in geometries, physics, mechanics and of course structural dynamics. This site is mostly an experimental system of working in which geometries and scripts are presented and offered to be improved upon and used theoretically.

G04 Erik Thorson / Georgia Voudouri / Nazli ILgit Yucel

References:

Theverymany: http://www.theverymany.net/

Reconstructivisim: http://www.reconstructivism.net/

Visual Complexity: http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/