The AADRL is a post-professional MArch (Architecture & Urbanism) graduate design programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, in London. Led by Theodore Spyropoulos, it has four research labs that respond to an umbrella agenda that the team set for a period of 3-4 years. Most recently they have been working on a theme of ‘Behavioral Complexity‘, which explores design that is proto-typical, scenario driven and examines behaviours through design enquiry. A feature of this research agenda between the four labs is examining robotics within architecture. They have two studios that are exploring 3D printing at the scale of buildings, one augmenting robotic arms by developing custom end effectors and the other exploring drones and swarm printing and finally the fourth studio is looking at parametric approaches towards kinetic architecture.
Text and pictures - more on the blog Creative applications: http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/aadrl-behavioural-complexity/
and link on the school: http://drl.aaschool.ac.uk/
info for the video: Today the intersection of information, life and matter display complexities that suggest the possibility of a much deeper synthesis between machines, humans and their context. Architecture today must participate and engage with the information-rich environments that are shaping our lives by constructing behavioural frameworks that will allow for change, embracing a adaptive and participatory model of living.
Our response is a design search for systems that have the capacity to learn, be self-aware, self-assemble and structure spatial interfaces. Models of the past cannot operate, as blueprints for our future, a new generation of design enquiry by necessity must rise up to the challenges of today. The following research is a small contribution to this evolving project.
Theodore Spyropoulos
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