“Genr8 is a surface design tool developed by Martin Hemberg with advisory services provided by Una-May O’Reilly and Peter Testa. The concepts and tool are part of the work by the Emergent Design Group at MIT. The goal was to provide architects with access to creative surface design by giving them influence over generative processes. A generative process is the activity of iteratively executing some encoding that creates and then modifies an artifact. In the generative process we chose, what was most intriguing and of use to architects is a model of cellular growth interacting with an environment”.
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Since 2003, Genr8 has been used in the graduate course of Emergent Design and Technologies at the Architectural Association in London. Some of the projects are presented at the website under EmTech_Work->Core_Studio->Form_Generation. There is also an online exhibition of the work by the students from 2002-2003 where some of the designs are made with the aid of Genr8. Short presentations of the EmTech student projects from 2004.
Genr8 has also been used at the Southern California Insitute of Architecture and some of the expriments are presented in Steve Fuchs’ blog
Link site: Genr8
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