1 CROSSWORD: spatial semantics
The first game, Crossword , is a part-to-whole maze that transforms the individual (part) into a collective unity. A local-to-global system of elements operate in space with rules, like rules in language. Generative architecture propagates linguistically like a crossword puzzle. Each element is one of the architectural conventions, doors, windows, stairs, rooms, corridors, columns – all have meaning in regards to user interaction. Such conventions codify the ways the player of places may interact with them, hence an interplay between elements, movement and forces. 6 This is the spatial production.
The crossword infinitely expands as Minotaur travels. It is an architecture of space and time. The crossword formed by architectural parts explores the notion of architecture as a linguistic assemblage of dynamic elements, growing from one point into an aggregation, following certain joining rules. It involves a departure from conventional design approaches that prioritise rigid massing, and instead focuses on processes of the crossword. Through the propagation of simple elements, complexity of the system emerges.
Crossword: modules, a part-to- whole rule-based architecural generative logic like a crossword made by architectural elements 6
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Crossword: seed variations at the same complexity level (wave function collapse)
6 see Hillier, Bill. Space Is the Machine: A Configurational Theory of Architecture . Space Syntax, 2015.
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