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Crafting Space: Generative Processes of Architectural Configurations
Author(s) -
Kojima Kazuhiro
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1806
Subject(s) - space (punctuation) , block (permutation group theory) , set (abstract data type) , architectural engineering , computer science , generative grammar , development (topology) , engineering , artificial intelligence , programming language , mathematics , geometry , mathematical analysis , operating system
For most architects, the effective design of three‐dimensional space in two‐dimensional media remains an ongoing conundrum. Kazuhiro Kojima , the founding partner of the C+A Tokyo (CAt) office, describes how he set out to tackle this through his creation of the pioneering Space Block system at the Kojima Laboratory in the Tokyo University of Science in 1994, a design tool that could capture and extract space. He describes its application and refinement in the development of two ensuing systems: Existing Space Blocks (ESBs) and Basic Space Blocks (BSBs).