Re-Connecting Banani Lake - Building Morphology

by Madeline Johnston

Cross section of leaf, showing the cell morphology. Image: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/647842772232962050

In our group analysis of Korail, we identified building morphology rules that apply to the growth and location of buildings in the settlement. These rules followed similar rules to the cells in a cross section of a leaf.

I translated the identified morphology into rules for a cellular autonoma algorithm to determine where a proposed building would best be suited on the site. The algorithm also includes rules I created for the proposed areas of the project, seen below. The results from this algorithm are to be used in comibination with the Site Flows stigmergic algorithm to develop a building design.

For the algorithm to be able to read the site, I created a grid abstraction of the site area. Each grid cell is equal to 3 metres squared, to be in line with the standard building units (3m x 9m footprint) typical of Korail.

The cells are coloured based on how many rules were satisfied, the brighter green shows the cell where most rules were satisfied. Darker greens have less rules satisfied and the white areas show where no rules could be applied.