ESR: Zeynep Aksöz

ESR NUMBER: ESR4

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS: Str.ucture + Foster and Partners

INSTITUTE: IOA

The involvement of machine intelligence carries the process of design into a new association between two species which continuously influence each other during the search for an ideal design solution. Such design methodology is of high importance for a more integrated information rich and creative design thinking.
The research is focusing on development of multiple criteria search tools that can accommodate the ambiguous nature of the early design phase while keeping the awareness on design performance. The design development and communication can occur on different levels during the early design phase. The research intents to bring these design methods into a next level while keeping the act of design natural but extending it by integrating machine intelligence into the design process.

Early design phase needs a search strategy that supports the ambiguous nature of design, which can give the designer complete freedom of investigating the design instances with all their trade-offs, rather than limiting the designer with vaguely defined criteria to optimize for. Respectively, the research aims to develop an suitable design search strategy for this specific stage, that does not intend to find a mathematical optimum for a certain design problem, on the contrary supports the designer to find a desired solution by inspecting the trade-offs between different design criteria.
The project examines the integration of advanced modelling and heuristic search strategies to design workflow for managing and communicating multi-criteria search in the early design phase.It focuses on novel strategies for the formulation of design problems within the setting of high performance, cloud-enabled, multi-objective search. Accordingly within the frame work of well established platforms for parametric modelling different parametrisation methods are and novel use of methods from computer graphics, simulated physics and developmental biology are investigated.

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