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Francisco Javier Fernández Herrero
Artificial Architecture, 1.0
España

 

 
Arquitectura Artificial 1.0

‘Arquitectura Artificial 1.0’ consists of developing a set of algorithms capable of recognizing and generating architectural spaces. The goal was to program tools which surpass the typical limitations of the CAD systems used to design buildings and urban spaces. These tools would enable a controlled design in the future, one which could adapt spaces to specific conditions of each environment and population group.

With this goal in mind, the idea was to program a system with enough automatic interpretative capacity to be able to capture abstract blocks and deal with states of incomplete information.

Technical information
The project contains two software packages:

1) ArquitecturaArtificial_1.0.1: A high level vision system capable of automatically interpreting general geometrical sketches (often incomplete or lacking structure) and automatically recognizing aspects of architectural spaces.

2) ArquitecturaArtificial_1.0.2: An algorithm that generates spaces, capable of jumping smoothly from one architectural variation to another. This relies on a non-linear transformation that includes a filter based on the information obtained through the spatial recognition algorithm.


BIO

Francisco Javier Fernández Herrero was born in León, Spain in 1968. He received his degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1994, and a degree in Physical Sciences from UNED (Distance Learning University) in 2000.
In association with other architects, Fernández has received several awards for architectural design and urban planning, (the service areas for the Villagarcía de Arosa Port, 1997; the sports and swimming complex in San Sebastián, 2000).
After receiving a graduate scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Science in 1997, he worked as a researcher with the Department of Projects at the Superior Technical School of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, collaborating on research projects and teaching. In 2000 he was invited to the Center for Computer Design at the Harvard Design School as a visiting researcher.
Fernández was awarded his doctorate in architecture by the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2003. His research area was related to the use and programming of automatic classification and recognition tools, computation design systems and multimedia systems.
Currently, he works as an intern for the Spanish government’s Department of Advanced Systems and Information Technologies.