Short workshop project for the Jacques VIEILLE workshop et the ESA October 2007. The subject of the workshop was: Nature et Artifice (Natural and Artificial).

Some aspects of nature are defined by mathematical formulas, corresponding to certain functions of plants. I took the sunflower and the hemlock flowers as reference. The sunflower looking towards the sun, by following its path in the sky, the hemlock as a Lindenmayer, path fractal system.

These functions are coded in the DNA of the species, and every individual behaves in the same way, adapting the final form to the actual context, where the plant is growing.

The same way nature embeds its information for the form of flowers into the DNA of every species, the form of buildings and structures can be coded as a programs, generating one species of buildings and different individuals, adapting to every context.

So I propose a structure that supports panels oriented to defined places in space, from where the image of the panel can clearly be seen. An example could be publicity bills on a central roundabout, that are oriented to precise points of the road, from where a driver can easily see them.

The code is the same for every generated structure below, but the context, the points of view that are selected are different. So one code generates different individuals.

To show that the program output can be used as blueprint to actually build these structures, I chose to build a model of one specific case, rather than make a 3D rendering.