cB CityBreeder
PROJECT DATA |
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TYPE | INSTALLATION SOFTWARE |
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LOCATION | SYDNEY, AU |
CLIENT | CUSTOMS HOUSE, CITY OF SYDNEY |
DATE | 2010 |
TEAM | IAIN MAXWELL DAVE PIGRAM |
AWARDS |
WINNER OPEN AGENDA (2010) |
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CityBreeder
Sydney, Au
cB
Cities are cultural artefacts, the emergent outcomes of open and continuous (design) processes enacted through the collective decisions, desires and anxieties of their populations.
CityBreeder seeks a new and participatory mode of modelling the processes of the city, one that builds upon an understanding of urban form as highly contingent and continuously re-negotiated. Generative algorithmic design techniques are used to encode specific low-level connective intentions, rules and relationships to produce an emergent condition capable of adaption to its own self-generating body of information: the collective decisions and actions of the model’s multi-agent population. In developing a time-based model that approaches urban creation via the accrual of a very high population of small (simulated) real-time decisions we posit a mobile platform of design that operates in a continuous but minimal way. We believe the city should be allowed to evolve in a largely self-regulating manner, but one monitored and at times micro-adjusted in the pursuit of a diverse and informal sense of dynamic order.
Urban Agent Diagram
Urban agent decision tree
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Decision Tree Diagram
Generative street-growth decision tree
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L-System Diagram
Generative rules for street growth
Generative rules for street growth
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Agent Traceries
Agent decision-making tree
Agent decision-making tree
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