Initiated in 2008 as a platform for design research and experimentation that embraces computational processes as a key ingredient of analysis and synthesis in design.
Volatile Prototypes seeks to explore the computation-enabled integration of the heterogenous information and processes taking part in the design of physical and/or virtual artefacts. As such information can be considered many things, such as functional parameters, material properties, organizational principles, manufacturing processes, representation issues etc. The goal of this investigation is to develop intuitive design environments and explore different design possibilities and prospects in the generation of space and aesthetics.
It captures, combines and alters concepts and processes found in the fields of architecture, engineering, materials science, computer science, mathematics and geometry, to either synthesize design environments and tools that are of analytical and/or generative use during the design process, or produce artefacts that have aesthetic potential on their own.
Mainly being manifested as computer programs, the products of this effort are ephemeral, “volatile”, in contrast to the concrete structures and material organizations they refer to.
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Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou
Architect, founder of Volatile Prototypes.
