War In The Age

Unfortunately somewhere along the line I became mixed up in which reading was when however War In The Age showed up as a new reading and I had yet to digest it so I thought now would be an appropriate time to tackle it. 

War In The Age shows an interesting "robot historian" perspective with regards to modern AI and military applications. Though the prospect is interesting I believe this one sided view is a bit short towards a more a down to earth (architectural) problem involving both AI and robots; the 'use the robot because it's a robot' syndrome. 

Both algorithmic and robot fabrication technologies have broad applique, however I find more and more projects being tuned for the robot rather than by the robot. I understand this has little to do with military applications since the military has great motivation to utilize the full potential of robotic tools, my question is whether architecture holds this same potential.

Either way the notion of utilizing robots for the sake that they are a robot troubles me, it seems like an added complication towards a process which is already very complex. This, however, is only an outsiders perspective and as I learn more about generative processes perhaps my ideology will evolve.  

A.11 FINAL

The chair has evolved. I have switched, again, instead of utilizing the power of assemblies I've decided to assemble my chair with power copies. The most difficult part of this project was establishing/engineering a framework which would control the rest of the chair. Some of the goals I had hope to achieve by undertaking this approach were: 

(i) grasp further understanding of frameworks and their potential as structural devices.

(ii) use power copies more abundantly and have them respond to framework changes

(iii) create a dynamic structure (a chair) which had multiple parametric components.

 The frame work (which determines the chair width).

 Joint lines which will determine point location for the chair slats. 

 Chair sides, both very dynamic/autonomous. 

 Chair frame parameters.

 Chair frame surfaced.

 First seat slat. 

 Slat powercopied.

More power copies and a change in the left frame.

Changes in width and with the frame.

One of the difficulties I found were powercopies behaving strangely. The slats operate off 4 points. Three of the points determine the plane/angle for the slat and the fourth point determines (or should determine) the top point of the slat. Unfortunately the slats top point would remain static even it's 'control' point moved (this occurs specifically when the chair sides changed angle). Ultimately I feel this is problem was due to how I structured the power copies and if tweaked/ re-instantiated could perform correctly.