the presentation will show examples of my Architecture Generators and how I made them by analogue as well as digital algorithms.

Since I started studying architecture the question that occupied me mostly was:
how do lines get on the paper
how do buildings appear on the field

and that's why I dealt with questions of methodology, production conditions, background influences, rules, patterns of behavior etc.,
more or less with algorithms as we would say today

One key insight I found in Fractal Geometry, this is the famous Sierpinsky triangle

On top …… you see 3 starting elements
The generating algorithm is: insert 3 small elements into the starting element …. and do again and again
Simpl linear dialect

The script is generating and self-similarity arises
and this self-similarity makes clear:

self-similarity is like a bubble
you cannot leave it without changing the algorithm

And this is important:
if you want to make something new ….. something different from the mainstream

In this case the starting element is again a triangle
but the generating algorithm is: add 3 small elements outside …. and continue and do again and again

I present some examples of my own production
back to the question: ...... how do lines get on the paper

The usual way is: you start with an idea in the brain, then giving a signal to the hand, to the pencil ….
and the output should be the desired line

and if the line is not what you desired, you have to take an eraser, and erase,
and then take the pencil again and make a new line
…………… which in most cases shows again self-similarity

for this problem …… one of my inventions was: the Drawingerasor
a tool for making drawings …. generating drawings
an early analogue example …… I changed the way of drawing

…….when used to erase.......it produced a scribble
this is generating a drawing ….. automatically making new lines, ..... even without thinking

the simple mechanical substitution replaced linear thinking with non-linear accidentalism

this demonstrates again:
if you change the algorithm you receive automatically new results,
in most cases something unexpected
and you get it quickly ..... instant and free

this is not only designing a line ..... but designing a tool, a method for designing lines ..... this is the shift into the second order

another remark: the result, the creation is not anthropomorphic anymore ..... it stems from exterior procedures
this is similar to the development in art from expressionism ..... to actionism

In 1988 renovated and revitalized Trautenfels, an imposing baroque castl.
A new outside door was necessary for better circulation of the big amount of visitors

The question was: ..... how can a new door look like?
again my basic approach was: ..... “I do not design, I just change rules”

And I found out ..... the existing usual rule of doors is
1.   A door is a flat element
2.   The turning axis of doors is vertical
3.   An open door is uselesss
            And for getting a new door ..... I only changed these rules:

I said:
1.   the doors are three-dimensional bodies
2.   the axis is moved in a different place ….. is horizontal instead of vertical
3.   and the open doors become a function    in this case …. a stairway to nowhere

I consequently formulated another rule, which was:
in a different place ..... in a different use

so specifically not as usual
“the right thing in the right place at the right time”
but
in a different place in a different use

which is a basic rule for hybrids
which I then applied in many other projects
just two examples out of many

in a different place..... in a different use

Ironing-Board Chandelier

Toilet Chandelier

In this sense: you can change or set up any rule
and then see what comes out of it

TRAUTENFELS as seen from its building components

After the renovation was done, I made a video documentation of my architectonic interventions
usually the camera guidance is either static
John Wayne rides left to right
or the camera follows Belmondo and Deneuve walking

and to show a building in a video, you approach it from outside, go in, go up the stairs, look around inside, looking out ....
it is always an anthropocentric view…… like with a helmet camera

I changed this rule: ..... my script said:
Fix the camera on moving parts of the building

For example on the toilet door: (In 1993 we did not yet have small digital cameras)

I changed the rules ..... and was amazed at what came out of it
The video shows what the building parts see all day long:

this was a 100 % digital development
beyond interactivity, completely computer generated
The process is shifted from personal brain to external procedures

The advantage is: external procedures are easier to change than personal behavior and attitudes

neurons firing spikes

spike train >>> bit string

A spike is the signal from one neuron to another, and a spike train is a sequence of zeros and ones firing in the brain
and these spike trains are obviously same endless sequences of zeros and ones as in a bit string in the computer

in a computer-aided design software ..... like Autocad Archicad Rhino etc ..... there is a list of many many commands.
        line, polyline 3D line square circle cube wedge ……..
and commands like
        move, rotate, scale, delete, copy            and so on …..
        selection of color, selection of thickness etc

The concept of the generator is a LISP program ..... a list processing script
which chooses from the offered commands on basis of a bit string of zeros and ones

this generator was running at ZKM in Karlsruhe for more than 10 years, permantly producing new elements.
Somehow it is phantastic what can be generated by a random sequence of zero and ones

By the way ..... in this is somehow related to Mozart opus KV 516f
his Instruction how to compose a waltz with 2 dices
he used numbers from two to twelve ..... whereas I used 0100110110

we have created a collection of ready-made construction components
such as wall panels, platforms, pillars, stairs, girders etc

In our program, we dropped these building pieces randomly, controlled by a gravity engine

The script continuously generated new configurations, a heap of new architecture ..... equally generating randomly by zeros and ones
This is deconstruction …… not because it looks oblique …… but because all traditional rules of architecture like
form follows function or
like the trinity of Form Construction Function
are abandoned

for example: usually corridor / staircase / elevator are a unit, here they are dislocated

the visitor in the exhibition could additionally control the second life island.
On the screen you see the hyper hybrid generator running

But in front was a 5-fold representation of one fact .....
5 different appearances are present simultanously

1.    the visitor IRL
2.    his shadow
3.    his twin as avatar
4.    the video tracing him
5.    the script and the bitstring of the visitors data

Jeffrey Shaw was the mastermind, he asked me to contribute the architecture for the installation.

additionally some remarks on the architectural concept ..... .of real life architecture and virtuality

And as in the WOL presentation everything was virtual .... very strongly visual ….. I did not want to compete..... and reduced architecture,

I made architecture disappear
I inverted architecture as present & tangible but not visible

Therefore my architectural installation was something like a black potato, in a black background, completely formless, without shape, like a black hole

I repeated the inside virtual projections of the web by a real life / hard ware mesh of wires outside, which were black again and invisible, but tangible.
(and this caused serious problems as visitors didn't see them and ran in.... so I had to replace them and use visible white rubber cords)

So finally the beautiful inverted virtual reality was back in real life reality.