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Maths and computations lend creative power to artistic and architectural designs.

Three years ago, I was amazed by Zaha Hadid’s design of the Mathematics Gallery at the Science Museum in London. Inspired by aircrafts, the interior membrane installation stands elegantly and shows a strong sense of movement and evolution. Such a practice indicates the strong influence of technology on the environment and the space that people experience. Designed by a team of more than ten people, the form was scripted and paramatrically controlled to achieve an ideally continuous and complex shape. Moreover, the design suggests an enlightening future for artistic creations aided by algorithms. Strongly influenced by such new technology, I use an algorithmic design tool called Grasshopper a lot in my architectural designs and formal explorations.

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