This paper describes the evolution of the Computational Design approach at the Aedas R&D Computational Design and Research group founded in 2004 at Aedas Architects in London.
The approach has transformed itself from an academic inspired thinking about computing media to a more flexible model of design heuristics and search algorithms that finally start to produce new hybrid design workflows in the industry while also swimming against the industry trend of super-integration software. Only if computing is not exclusively defined through architectural design intent or purely computing logic, does computational design explore new design thinking.
_ This paper was published in the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), issue 04, volume 07, December 2009. IJAC website – www.architecturalcomputing.org
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