Proposal

The Gallery has a complex structure — though the genesis of this complexity is a simple triangle. It was the intention of the architectural concept to implant into the grammar of the design a sense of freedom so that the building could be submitted to change and variety but would always express its true purpose.
            - Col Madigan, ‘Architect’s Statement’ 1976

Madigan’s 1976 statement resonates with contemporary interests in complex generative architectures. I am developing an approach seeded by the structure, language and relationships within his design for the National Gallery of Australia, which, conceived systematically as it was, is an ideal candidate for computational exploration.

This project tests the potentials of emergent new, interpretive, form making and different architectural readings using algorithmic design approaches to codify geometric relationships of a historical architecture.

Digital design/architecture is commonly seen as phantasmal end product or mysteriously generated on screen, and feeding a culture of spectacle over promoting procedural understanding. Through interactive and physical manifestation I am seeking to make tangible the generative system. Brut, meaning raw, is used architecturally in reference to the raw expression of material but perhaps conceptually the generative system could similarly be understood to have raw expression.