Babiy Yar Memorial

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: In 2010, Roland Snooks and colleagues at Kokkugia designed the Babi Yar Memorial to mark the site (in Kiev, Ukraine) where Nazis massacred more than 30,000 Jewish people in 1941. This unbuilt memorial develops and articulates an approach to architectural design that draws on the logic of swarm intelligence and operates through multi-agent algorithms. In 2013, the work was acquired by FRAC and included in the Naturalising Architecture exhibition, the inaugural exhibition at FRAC's new building. This major exhibition documented a new architectural paradigm that has developed out of complexity theory, computation and a focus on emergent phenomena. It was curated by Marie-Ange Brayer, FRAC director and Frédéric Migayrou, Deputy Director of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: The Babi Yar Memorial explores the generation of intricate ornamental spaces from algorithmic design processes. The project is an inverted monument. Rather than a monument as object, it is an immersive memorial space is designed as an intricate bronze interior. FRAC describes the project as: 'A fissured mineral monolith whose centre seems to have been consumed by a torrent of bronze rises on a snow-covered landscape'. The project establishes a contradiction between the solidity of the stone form and the intricacy of the bronze memorial - a contradiction that is mirrored in the design process, between direct modelling and generative multi-agent algorithmic strategies. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: Aside from its inclusion in the exhibition and acquisition for FRAC's permanent collection, the significance of the Babi Yar Memorial is further demonstrated by extensive publication. The memorial has been peer reviewed in the following leading international publications: 'Evolo Journal' (USA), 'Pulsation in Architecture' (USA), 'Fahrenheit' (Mexico), and 'Beaux Arts' (France).研究背景：2010年，罗兰·斯努克斯（Roland Snooks）与Kokkugia团队的同事共同设计了巴比雅尔（Babi Yar）纪念地，以纪念1941年纳粹在乌克兰基辅此处屠杀超过3万名犹太人的历史事件。该未建成的纪念项目发展并阐明了一种建筑设计路径，该路径借鉴了集群智能（swarm intelligence）的逻辑，并依托多智能体（multi-agent）算法实现运作。2013年，该作品被FRAC收购，并被纳入《自然化建筑》展览——这是FRAC新馆的首展。该重磅展览记录了一种源自复杂性理论、计算科学且聚焦涌现现象的全新建筑范式，由FRAC馆长玛丽-昂热·布雷耶（Marie-Ange Brayer）与巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心副馆长弗雷德里克·米加鲁（Frédéric Migayrou）联合策展。 研究贡献：巴比雅尔纪念项目探索了从算法设计流程中生成复杂装饰性空间的方法。该项目是一座倒置式纪念碑：它并非作为实体对象的纪念碑，而是被设计为一处布满精巧细节的青铜内部空间的沉浸式纪念场所。FRAC将该项目描述为："一块布满裂隙的矿物独石，其中心仿佛被青铜洪流吞噬，矗立在白雪皑皑的大地之上。"该项目在石材造型的厚重质感与青铜纪念空间的繁复精巧之间构建出一种矛盾关系——这一矛盾也映射在设计流程之中，即直接建模与生成式多智能体算法策略之间的对立。 研究意义：除被纳入该展览并被FRAC纳入永久馆藏之外，巴比雅尔纪念项目的重要性还通过大量学术出版物得到进一步印证。该纪念项目已在以下国际顶级出版物中获得同行评审：《Evolo Journal》（美国）、《建筑脉动》（Pulsation in Architecture，美国）、《Fahrenheit》（墨西哥）以及《Beaux Arts》（法国）。