isotope - 3 proposals for grammar-based algorithmic architecture
an idea for a philosophical - architectural game
isotope is an project examining possibilities
of extending the architecture of the haus wittgenstein on the basis of a formal
language.
the architecture is extended through the methods of Replacement and Recursion
using the qualities of the VRML as a language. one of the advantages of VRML
that was important in this project is its hierachical structure. it has a "memory"
- during the process of replacing shapes, the previous state doesnt get lost
but rather moves up one level in the hierachy.
the first method proposed is a shape-grammar which uses deformations and one reference volume
the second experiment uses this replacement
procedure to represent a sequence of sentences of the form
p (a1,a2,..,an) in architectual compositions
third looks at the amount of new information which is sequentially added with each following sentence