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Affects of Intricate Mass: The Strange Characteristics of the RMIT Mace and NGV Pavilion
Author(s) -
Snooks Roland
Publication year - 2016
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.2113
Subject(s) - pavilion , studio , art history , mace , architectural engineering , engineering , art , sociology , visual arts , civil engineering , medicine , psychiatry , myocardial infarction , conventional pci
The use of iterative multi‐agent algorithms to produce an accretion of intricate mass, rather than predefined form, is a key focus of current research at Roland Snooks 's Melbourne studio. Here the architect and senior lecturer presents two projects, on very different scales, which his practice has developed using this ‘behavioural formation’ process, in collaboration with RMIT University. Defined by complex fibrous assemblages rather than surface or volume, they offer weird and wonderful atmospheric affects.