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LIVING ARCHITECTURE SYSTEMS GROUP White Papers 2019 Edited by Philip Beesley, Sascha Hastings & Sarah Bonnemaison 9 781988 366180 R Living Architecture Systems Group White Papers 2019 Publisher: Riverside Architectural Press, www.riversidearchitecturalpress.ca LIVING ARCHITECTURE SYSTEMS GROUP © Riverside Architectural Press and Living Architecture Systems Group 2019 ISBN 978-1-988366-18-0 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Title: Living Architecture Systems Group White Papers 2019 Names: Beesley, Philip, 1956-editor. | Bonnemaison, Sarah, 1958-editor | Hastings, Sascha, 1969-editor. Living Architecture Systems Group, issuing body. Description: Essays, interviews and images that provide an overview of current research being done by contributors to the Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG). Identifiers: Canadiana 20190060972 | ISBN 9781988366180 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Architecture—Technological innovations. | LCSH: Living Architecture Systems Group. Classification: LCC NA2543.T43 L58 2019 | DDC 720.1/05—dc23 Printed in Kitchener, Ontario. All rights reserved. The individual authors shown herein are solely responsible for their content appearing within this publica- tion. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means—including but not limited to graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the copyright owner. Errors or omissions will be cor- rected in subsequent editions. This book is set in Garamond and Zurich BT. Cover Image Modification of a high resolution slice of the sholeMpc box of Bolshoi. Made by Stefan Gottlober (AIP) with IDL. Last accessed February 12, 2019 at http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/. The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made (“boshoi” is the Russian word for “great” or “grand”). The filamentary cellular structures evident within the Bolshoi simulation bear a striking resemblance to the organization that can be seen throughout natural living forms. White Papers 2019 The Principal Investigators of the Bolshoi project are Anatoly Klypin and Joel Primack. Edited by Philip Beesley, Sascha Hastings & Sarah Bonnemaison R Contents Introduction 1 Living Architecture Systems 89 Towards Psychosomatic Architecture Notes on Progress Attuning Reactive Architectural Materials through Biofeedback Philip Beesley, Director, LASG, University of Waterloo Daragh Byrne and Dana Cupkova, Carnegie Mellon University 101 Building on the Intersection of Art, Interviews Technology, and Cognitive Neuroscience A Personal Journey as an LASG Student Researcher 10 Living Architecture Systems Group Interviews Adam Francey, University of Waterloo Sarah Bonnemaison, Dalhousie University 111 Living Wall System (LIWAS) 12 On Organicism Petra Gruber, University of Akron with Sarah Bonnemaison Luke Kimmerer, University of Waterloo 123 Worldmaking as Techné Participatory Art, Music, and Architecture 26 Between Engineering and Art Mark-David Hosale, York University with Rob Gorbet Sarah Bonnemaison 133 Selected Artificial Natures, 2017-2018 Haru Hyunkyung Ji and Graham Wakefield, 42 A Reflection on Complexity OCAD University and York University with Dana Kulić Sarah Bonnemaison 143 The Work of Terreform ONE Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE and New York University Papers 157 Tomorrowland 51 In Theoretical Physics Manuel Kretzer, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences PB, IvH, and the LASG 173 Canada’s Infrastructure of the Future Michael Awad, Artist, Architect and Douglas MacLeod, Athabasca University Independent Academic 181 The Role of Living Architecture in Regional & Urban Design 63 Envisioning Intelligent Interactive Systems Regenerative Assemblages as Innovation Multipliers Data Visualizations for Sentient Architecture J. Eric Mathis, Institute for Regenerative Design & Innovation Katy Börner and Andreas Bueckle, Indiana University WHITE PAPERS 2019 197 SC: A Modular Software Suite for Composing 291 Lumen Continuously-Evolving Responsive Environments Jenny Sabin, Cornell University Brandon Mechtley, Todd Ingalls, Julian Stein, Connor Rawls, Sha Xin Wei, Arizona State University 319 Adaptability in Residential Adaptive Reuse Sheida Shahi, University of Waterloo 207 Affective Atmospheres Ambient Feedback Ecology 327 Adaptive Architecture Empathy and Ecology Nima Navab, Topological Media Lab Michael Stacey, The Bartlett School of Architecture Desiree Foerster, Institute for Arts & Media 349 Applying 3D Scanning and 360° Technologies to 221 Integrating Sound in Living Architecture Systems Complex Physical Environments Application of 4DSOUND in Two Prototypes to Enhance Representation Kinetic Sculpture and Architectural Design Through the Sensors of Machines Paul Oomen, Poul Holleman and Salvador Breed, 4DSOUND Codrin Talaba, Independent Design Researcher 235 Soft Kinetics 367 Exploring New Forms of Craft Integrating Soft Robotics into Architectural Assemblies Atelier Iris van Herpen, Amsterdam Vera Parlac, University of Calgary 393 Would You Like to Wake up from this Dream? Yes, I’m Terrified. 251 Soft Materials An Argument for a Machinic REM Exploring Data Quality in Data-Integrated Design Alexander Webb, University of New Mexico Maya Przybylski, University of Waterloo 265 Complex Modelling 408 About the LASG Questioning the Infrastructures of Information Modelling Mette Thomsen Ramsgaard, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 410 LASG Organization 2019 281 Investigations in the Implementation of Localized Granular Synthesis Within Large-Scale Immersive Installations Amirbahador Rostami and Mark-David Hosale, York University Poul Holleman, 4DSOUND WHITE PAPERS 2019 Living Architecture Systems Notes on Progress Philip Beesley University of Waterloo, Canada Can artists, designers and engineers make living systems? Can the layers of new built environments - layers of architecture, sculpture and fashion - come alive? The ingredients that define living systems appear increasingly within the reach of contemporary architecture. Life-like qualities have been sought by artists since the beginning of recorded history, but this quest is being transformed by new ways of understanding the deeply interwoven living world, supported by surging technologies of artificial intelligence, responsive systems and engineered materials, and informed by new arts that permit visualization and conception of exquisitely sensitive complex environments. Classical paradigms tend to emphasize clarity and unified integrity as self-evident necessities. The premises of classical rhetoric have tended to create polarized divisions between interior and exterior spaces, between human beings and things, and between the realms of technology and WHITE PAPERS 2019 1 nature. The papers of this gathering propose a fundamental renewal of such The potential application of living systems to architecture is large, and the polarized realms. The new kinds of architecture implied by these studies LASG’s contributions are necessarily limited. Research devoted to the might appear like a layered forest. The technical systems of this architecture technology and design of living architectural systems distinct from that tend to embrace inherently entropic and precarious conditions, far from equi- of LASG contributors appearing within the current volume is evident at librium. The kinds of precisions gained from computational processes tend Stuttgart’s Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), the to be combined with physical and empirical methods in this work, lending Bartlett School of Architecture, the national Swiss facilities of ETH Zurich, meticulous attention to craft, material and fabrication alongside abstracted Media Lab at MIT, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), analysis. Extending these mutual exchanges are fresh approaches to physi- the Master’s programs in Emergent Technologies and Design (EmTech) at cal computation and distributed controls that imply a continuous spectrum the Architectural Association, the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory between sentience and physical fabrication. This is architecture that learns, (SIAL) in Melbourne and new developments at Swinburne University of plays, explores and is curious. It has the ability to act with intelligence, Technology, new facilities at Tongji in Shanghai, architecture research centres empathy and resilience. within Harvard GSD, SCI-Arc, Taubman College at University of Michigan, and the University of Southern California, and in interdisciplinary dialogues The Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) was conceived ten years hosted by other disciplinary centres such as the Wyss Institute at Harvard ago, amidst collaborations extending the work of individual and small- and the specialized art and bioengineering facility within the University of group architectural researchers and creators in Canada, USA and Europe. Western Australia’s SymbioticA. Likewise, recurring conferences hosted by An international collective group began work together with the support specialized knowledge-creation societies such as Academy of Neuroscience of a 2012 Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) for Architecture (ANFA), ACADIA, eCAADe, CAADRIA, SimAUD, ROB|ARCH, Partnership Development Grant. Funding in this first phase was combined Fabricate and CHI, journals such as the International Journal of Architectural with support from museums and galleries,