GENETICS AS INSPIRATION IN THE DESIGN PROCESS OF ARCHITECTURE. EISENMAN AND ZAHA HADID

Genetic and biological analogy as a means of inspiration in the design process and, particularly, its use as conceptual grounds for the birth of the architectural project encompasses processes extending from metaphor to design techniques and graphic processes using evolutive algorithms and parametric design. Regarding the architectural modelling, the use of those algorithms develops in parallel to advances in artificial intelligence and life. To know of current advances of developments based on genetics, a chronological evolution is presented linked to its analogy in architecture. As architectural models based on those processes, the proposals of Biocentrum by Peter Eisenman and The Winton Gallery by Zaha Hadid are analysed. These are rooted on maths and algorithms and their ideation process becomes the goal of the architectural project.