Second Skin Architecture

I came across this project through Art Brain:

Second Skin is a research project that suggests an architecture that emerges from the person. It is, however, hard to explain in a few words a project as extensive, both in time and implications, as is Second Skin, especially because it involves a new approach to architecture through psychology, which means trying to establish a new vision of a discipline that has existed through out history using another one which is relatively young...

Second Skin’s methodology begins with an inductive audio, where the in-trance volunteer elaborates a drawing of the visited space – his/her primal refuge-, followed by an interview. This information is translated into digital models that allowing us to graph the relationships between the different houses. The resulting houses may be grouped into families according to their formal characteristics, creating the need to generate a process which would allow us to store and work with the information. With the support of a group in the ITESM Campus Querétaro, we then developed a software that works following a genetic model. In principle, the generic algorithm orders the lines of the houses and generates a morphing. The digitalized houses are fed to the software according to their families, separating their elements and assigning them dominant or recessive values. During the execution, the program randomly selects pairs of houses and performs the morphing. This process is repeated in four generations, obtaining in as a result of the last generation a collective house, which varies every time that the program is ran. Being a summary of spatial qualities, this collective house, deliberately, is not dictatorial with regards to form.