Collective Architecture in Real Time
Hyperblock is a collaborative architectural experiment that reimagines design as a decentralized, real-time process. Developed as part of The Bartlett's B-Pro program under the instruction of Alexander Grasser and Alexandra Parger, this academic workshop brought together student designers to contribute spatial modules, each with distinct geometry, materiality, and adjacency logic. These modules, acting as intelligent agents, are aggregated through computational rules into dense, interlocking fields where space emerges through negotiation rather than prescription. The design concept began with a moodboard built around fintech aesthetics, spatial rhythm, and dynamic lighting, together forming a sci-fi-inspired language of precision, modulation, and immersive atmosphere.
Designing the Modular System with Algorithmic Assembly
Each team member created a unique architectural block embedded with geometric and spatial behavior. These blocks were designed to interact, not in isolation but through encoded adjacency rules. Using Wasp, a combinatorial engine in Grasshopper, modules self-assembled into architectural constellations, matching edges, aligning orientation, and organizing into coherent spatial logic. The resulting structures, such as the ones shown in the four aggregated cluster diagrams, are algorithmically legible yet formally diverse. Here, space is not composed, but computationally grown.
