BRASS SWARM

Shanghai, installation,

2015

Brass Swarm is an experimental prototype developed through self-organisational algorithmic design processes and robotic fabrication. The project explores spatial self-organisation, emergent tectonics and the relationship between robotic and algorithmic behavior. A multi-agent algorithmic strategy for spatial self-organisation was developed, from which topological surfaces emerge.

CREDIT

Project Team: Roland Snooks, Cam Newnham, Ben Verzijl

Fabrication Team: Zhao Sheng, Cai Yuan Zhen, Tang Yan Chao, Chen Yu Lan, Xu Lei, Yan Lei, Zhang Wu

This manifold swarm strategy self-organises clouds of agents into coherent, continuous surfaces, and complex spatial division. These spatial agents simultaneously generate the intricate tectonics of the project. Each agent has a body that is capable of interacting and connecting to the bodies of the surrounding agents. The interaction of these agent Bodies generates intricate ornamental and structural networks.

Brass Swarm

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