Ubiquitous Simultaneity: A Design Workflow for an Information Rich Environment

In June of 2014 over 1700 entries were submitted to a competition for a proposed Guggenheim Museum in the Finnish capital of Helsinki. Winners had no guarantee that the project would be built, yet architects from around the world spent huge amounts of capital and time to produce what was described by the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation as “an unprecedented volume of design information that is now freely available for study and use”. Just like that the intellectual capital of nearly two thousand architects was distributed essentially free of charge to the public. This represented a massive upload of the architectural intentions and pre-occupations of a generation of architects that was not used or evaluated in any way other than to promote the competition itself. This paper focuses on the development of a design process that makes use of large repositories of previously designed projects as the content for a new kind of design workflow. The leveraging of computational techniques and large data rich territories is described and its preliminary outputs presented.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.2016.37

Volume Editors
Alfredo Andia, Dana Cupkova, Macarena Cortes, Umberto Bonomo & Vera Parlac

ISBN
978-1-944214-10-4