Computation for Humanity

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Computer as a Tool for Creative Adaptation: Biologically Inspired Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design

Taro Narahara

CONTENTS

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Early Applications of Computation in Architecture and Urban Design

4.3 Complexity, Time, and Adaptation in Architecture and Urban Planning

4.4 Computational Emulation of Natural Processes in Design

4.5 Emergent Formations: Examples of Self-Organizing Computation

4.6 Program for Simulating the Origins of Urban Form

4.7 Growth Simulation

4.8 Results of Simulation of an Existing Site

4.9 Conclusion

Acknowledgment

References

4.1 Introduction

In today’s design methodologies in architecture and urban design, we normally attempt to anticipate all current and future design ...