Program Scope:
Develop the Genome of the Built Environment.
Unusual Characteristics, Special Challenges and Solution:
Object Genome Project
Custom Object Libraries to Describe Architectural Environments
The Object Genome Project has been an ongoing in-house project to categorize and create intelligent building blocks of objects that are used in design project. Object Genomes are used to describe architectural environments as large as entire city blocks, buildings and sections of buildings.
The intelligent objects evolve over time, new characteristics and rules are added as new and adjusted requirements come up. Our environment and buildings are not static.
Just like the Humane Genome can describe mankind, The Object Genome describes our built environment. Buildings are complex by nature and The Object Genome Project takes a methodical approach of analyzing, documenting, and creating tools to master this complexity.
Although rules based systems may at first seem limiting to architects, they are very much of our architectural history. Classical Greek architecture has a set of orders that describe the rules of putting together classical space. These rules that were followed by the Greeks gave rise to great buildings and now form a basis of Western architecture.
Rules based objects of The Object Genome project function in much the same way. They enable us to catalogue huge amount of data that is then available at our fingertips to be used for projects. What is illustrated in this submittal is a small glimpse of the logic and process we follow in analyzing the logic of our built environment and then applying that logic through the use of rules based building blocks in our projects.
Rules embedded in these objects can range from structural to typological:
How deep is a truss for an aircraft hangar according to structural codes?
What is the proper proportion of a doorway for a traditional Japanese house?
They can also be architectural or design oriented:
What is the proper material for a floor in a high traffic area, and what is the cost of it?
Rules can also be relational, triggering new requirements between two different sets of objects:
What is the proper hardware to use for a glass front kitchen cabinet door?
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