Polyomino reconsidering serial repetition in combinatorics

Abstract

Since the introduction of non-standard design to the field of architecture, we have seen a diminishing interest in the work of serialized units as a design strategy. On the contrary, every building block has become different as enabled by digital fabrication technologies and CNC manufacturing. In the advent of the current energy crisis and technologies of distribution that allow crowd-sourcing as a design strategy, the “Polyomino” project attempts to re-consider serial repetition through a framework of combinatorics and graph theory, one in which we consider geometry as a data structure for a plethora of design variations.