Biothing

Alisa Andrasek is an experimental practitioner of architecture and computational processes in design. She is the founder of biothing, “a transdisciplinary laboratory which research focuses on generative potential of physical and artificial computational systems for design.” Her computational design techniques are applied to architecture, fabrics, interactive and sound installations, structural studies, gardens, curtains, ceilings and more. Her explorations include computational algorithms, morphological patterns and genetic design. She is interested in the synthesis of art and science by bringing together aesthetics of design with engineering through the use of genetic algorithms in the manufacturing process of materials. Working with genetic algorithms, she says “You can control the nature of them, but not the final result. You’re setting up certain conditions and then letting this genetic game play on its own.”