From Simple To Complex Configuration: Sustainability Of Gestalt Principles Of Visual Perception Within The Complexity Paradigm

The paper presents a design research project developed in 2006 and in 2007 at the Computational Design Research Lab (CoDeReL)(1). CoDeReL is an elective graduate design research studio initiated in 2005 at the Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture (2), to function as an integrated research and teaching structure. The double educational and research agenda of the studio aims at enhancing intellectual infrastructure for research and design in the architecture/technology interface and adresses various issues and problematics detected in the field of computational design research. One of the main objectives of the studio is to position computational design research in its current theoretical and epistemic context and to develop a consciousness of historical continuity within the disciplinary field of architecture. To this aim, design experiments at CoDeReL attempt to draw together contemporary and historical problem situations for the production of new and creative linkages fostering new knowledges and understandings of architectural evolution.