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Runddy D. Ramilo, UAP, asia, idcs

Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture (Candidate), Deakin University (Australia)
Master of Science in Construction Management, University of the East (Philippines)

Runddy D. Ramilo is a registered architect specializing in digital architecture and hospitality
design. He holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and currently a PHD in
Architecture candidate at Deakin University, Australia where he is in embedded practice-based
research on construction mediated evolutionary design process and the use of computational
simulation tools to address green and sustainability issues.
He is currently an Associate at Aedas where he leads a team of architects and designers
for several projects in the Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Aedas, he worked as Design Manager at Wilson+Associates and Associate
at Designphase, Singapore where he gained substantial professional experience through a wide variety of high end architecture
and interior architecture projects.
Runndy is very much interested in pursuing an academic career blended with field expertise. He is currently involved in
research at computing and communications group at the School of Architecture and Building, Deakin University where he
is involved in investigating problems of architectural geometry, generative design, building information modeling, parametric
modeling, web-based collaboration and embedded digital practice-based management. He was a lecturer for design and
building technology at Far Eastern University, Adamson University, and National University, Philippines. He published four books
in visualization, hospitality design, building technology and has published several journals in international conferences on
computer-aided architectural design and design management.

“Evolutionary Archit ecture: Folds, Genetics, Pliant and In-between”
One of the most persistent challenges facing the theory and practice of architecture today is the paradigmatic shift of
design process that are occurring in design practice and the emergence of digital technologies.
Virtual and physical evolutionary form finding process has evolved in research and shows a developed and progressive
throughout the previous decade. Bound with folds, genetics, the pliant and other new forms, architecture is made as succession
of different radical evolutionary style. It transformed the shape of building and the birth of design extremist is rapidly increasing
and more shapes of buildings are being experimented. It is a clear indication that paradigmatic shift of design process is
reshaping the way architects perceive and design buildings.
The new mode of designing buildings in today’s digital age is evolutionary architecture. The key concept behind the
evolutionary architecture is the use of morphogenetic process as a class of highly parallel evolutionary, adaptive search
from biology. It proposes an evolutionary model of nature as the generating process for architectural form. In this approach,
architectural morphology is expressed as generative rules so that evolution and transformation can be accelerated and iterated
by the use of computer and physical models.
As computational tools are becoming powerful, evolutionary design process have widespread in research. Starting with
Gilles Deleuze’s striated space and folds and Gaudi’s fluidity or ‘The Pliant’ it is now used in practice and popularly known as
Emergence. The Theory of Emergence looks up at natural phenomena of any kinds like genetic space from biology and extracts
their morphogenetic process and morphological formations as generator of design. Several applications of this theory are
Morpho-Ecologies, Biothing and Continuum, and L-System in Architecture in which morphogenetic process is applied as form
generators to architectural design. Its approach takes up from biological morphogenesis for which the process of evolutionary
development and growth of organism is observed and applied as generative morphogenetic process to model building forms.
In the process of engaging with the evolutionary design methodologies, this paper discusses a novel approach of
conceptualizing building forms in the early stage of design which are 3-dimensional physical and digital iterations through
folding, fluidity and algorithmic architecture. The topics will start discussing the historical background of evolutionary architecture
and will go down to discussing theoretical aspects of form generation and the digital technologies behind the design process.
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