What is SCRIPTING?

Scripting or a scripting language are programs written for a software environment that automate the execution of tasks which could alternatively be executed one by one by a human operator. It affords a significantly deeper engagement between the computer and user by automating routine aspects and repetitive activities, thus facilitating a far greater range of potential outcomes for the same investment in time.

Project: Emerging Morpho(eco)logies

The architecture of morpho(eco)logies and its design process is based on the idea that energy and environment is a dynamic and performative system of operations, forms, materials and programs which through self organizational and modulating processes can provide optimized solutions to complex and diverse problems. The design of such evolutionary and dynamic space can be generated by digital algorithmic methods. These methodologies can tackle the problem of sustainability.

The architecture of morpho(eco)logies and its design process is based on the idea that energy and environment is a dynamic and performative system of operations, forms, materials and programs which through self organizational and modulating pro-cesses can provide optimized solutions to complex and diverse problems. The design of such evolutionary and dynamic space can be generated by digital algorithmic methods. These methodologies can tackle the problem of sustainability.

In the quest for architecture to become sustainable, it has to look to nature. To do this, it has to imitate the processes in nature by becoming dynamic and adaptive: both organic features. Energy and most natural phenomena is an adaptive and self-sufficient process that achieves and maintains survival and optimization without external control. The research and design of such morpho(eco)logical systems engage the examination of physical systems in relation to their capacity to modulate climates, as well as space and program.

Environmental mimesis is a means for survival and performance. Animals are seen as perfecting mimicry (adaptation to their surroundings with the intent to deceive their pursuer) as a means of survival. By means of the mimetic impulse, the living being equates itself with objects in its surroundings. This holds the key to exploring the question of how human situate themselves within their environment.

One technique by which mimesis is constructed is by algorithms that are programmed to execute a series of mimetic tasks. Genetic algorithms constitute a class of search algorithms especially suited to solving complex optimization problems. Through its use the algorithm architectural notation has become operational: to design the choreographing of the transformation process. The architectural object is transformed into event and performance. However, this may cause the underlying mathematical and computational models to become too similar - the products differ of course but more based on in which context they are deployed and not so much conceptually. (Axe I Kilian)

The architect now becomes a constructor of formal systems than static spaces. This new condition gives architecture an “auto-poiesis”, similar to biological dynamics. By using scripting languages it is possible to create forms through methods analogous to the evolution of intelligent life: emergent behavior and self-organizing systems. It pursues various methods through which the role of the designer can shift from “space programming” to “programming space”. This is like Burry says, the tool user becom-ing the tool maker.