ALMERE PAMPUS TRANSFERIUM // METASTABLE ARCHITECTURE
10 March 2013

Metastability is a term which describes the extended duration of certain equilibria acquired by a complex system when leaving its most stable state after an external action. The parameters of such "excited" system may eventually reach and hold stationary values (a metastable state) but then, after a long time, (spontaneously or under a slight external action) parameters will start changing again. Considering the contemporary technological level and multiple scientific insights into natural systems that reflects similar tendencies, it is not hard to imagine an open ended architectural design that across its life span reveals metastable qualities.

architecture, fabrication, metastable, parametric, processing, simulation, train station
LAMBDA INFO-HUB
19 August 2011

Info hub was defined as a space where information is exchanged in a spontaneus manner as a site effect of human interactions. Environmental demands for such an interactions were core problem to be solve in the design. Complex informational model containing relation between environmental data ( environmental analysis software and physical observation ), program demands and side tectonic was develope as a base for agent base simulation. Agents moving around the site left traces of their behavior affected by the model. This so called “patch traces” were informative base for the design.

 

 

Delft, info-hub, simulation, wave
AGENT-BASED ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAMMING // STUDY
19 August 2011

"Computer-based models allow complex exploration not possible with the real system.(...) Such models can provide existence proof, which show that given mechanisms are sufficient to generate a given phenomenon. They can also suggest critical patterns and interesting hypotheses to the prepared observer(...)" 

 

John H. Holland

agent, bottom-up, simulation, virtools