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Digital Morphogenesis

Undergraduate Dissertation[Eighth semester]

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“…In the coming decades, we will see how we are becoming masters ofintelligence; how science will allow us to create and manipulate intelligence almost at will.We will be creating ‘intelligent machines’, moving from ‘machine intelligence’ which ishappening now. And ultimately we will redesign our own minds. Driving all this is theexponential growth of computing power… a typical mobile phone of today can perform abillion calculations per second, which is 300,000 times more than the IBM supercomputer ofthe 1970s, which was the state of the art technological development then. The exponentialgrowth of computer power will profoundly reshape the human civilization… our world hasalready made smarter than it was ten years ago, and as computing power doubles everyeighteen months, its propelling us towards a very different future… by 2020, intelligence willbe everywhere… scientists call it ubiquitous computing… already large part of our lives, oursociety, our economy are run by machines with specialized artificial intelligence… and due tothe explosion of computing power, more and more machines are designed to think forthemselves…”

This dissertation is about design, entirely about design – the process. In thenext few pages we will look at how it has undergone and is undergoing a paradigm shifttowards what is popularly known as emergent architecture, in this 21st century. This bookwill serve as both a reference and a casual free-time reading material for those beginnerswho are keen in understanding the basic principles behind architectural computation, whichforms a huge chunk of this new emerging field.

All this is one of the consequences of the exponential development in theprocessing speed of computers, enabling extremely complex processor oriented calculationsto be done in mind-blowing speed. We are entering a new world of thought processingsystem, which, by any means, should not be compared to the thought processing system inthe human mind, since, both work on extremely different platforms – both arecomplementary to each other, like the two sides of the coin. And, we will see how thissystem will affect architecture as a whole; the cases of specific relevant projects will help thereader to correlate the theory to the real world.

Before starting to read this essay, readers are advised to free up their mindand forget all preconceived ideas about design and computers. This will not only help inaccepting facts for analyzing, but also help in avoiding frequent contradictions to statementsmade here, which might have meant something else in the end…

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This exercise was intended towards the study of a historical settlement,

viz., Nawalgarh, Rajasthan, empirically and non empirically based

on its spatial organization on a macro and micro level. An official

trip was conducted to this place, as a class, with the assistance of The Indian Trust for Art and Cultural

Heritage.The study was documented in various sub categories of street pattern,

temples, havelis, history, and architectural symbolization.

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VISUAL . DESIGN

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INTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR.PIYU CHADHA, DECEMBER 2008.

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EXTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR.MONA CHANDRA, MARCH 2009.

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INTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR.MANIYARASAN.R, OCTOBER 2008.

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EXTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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EXTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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EXTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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SECTIONAL VIEW – HOUSING UNIT, RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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INTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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SECTIONAL VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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EXTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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SECTIONAL VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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EXTERIOR VIEW RENDERED FOR AR. SANJAY MOHE, SUMMER 2009.

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