Generative Eco-Design – Ec-Co-Gen

Our research proposal concerns creative architectural design. Specifically, we question the phases of conceptual research. We propose to characterize the transformation of creative processes and the modalities of conceptualization of the architectural form through the implementation of a generic type of instrumentation. We place our approach in the context of sustainable development, and we will use the energy components as critical and stimulating constraints of a creative and appropriate design.
The generative instrumentation involves stochastic process. It leads, in particular to the implementation of evolutionary digital devices, and to systems supporting the phenomena of emergence. Emergence has here two meaning. There is " digital emergence” through the generation of solutions from the digital process, and also " cognitive emergence " through interpretation, the active look, the transfiguration realized by the designer from proposed solutions.

This project is led by an interdisciplinary team, mixing the domains of architectural design, computer science and cognitive psychology. Its innovative character is based on the classification of creation modalities through a "eco-generative” instrumentation. This work will lead to the development of an operational tool dedicated to « architectural creation support » and to a reflection on the conditions of its possible teaching.