Fig. 00 — ROBIN-SONG-DESIGN, in orbit. Drag to spin.

Robin
Song

Computational designer & developer working where architecture meets code — fluid simulation, machine learning and form-finding for design.

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Currently: Design System Analyst, Foster + Partners
Studied: MSc Architectural Computation, UCL
Based in: London / Shenzhen

Selected work

07 projects

Research & Development

Tools, simulations and learning systems for design.

(03)

StableShape

Morphology-generation Grasshopper plugin based on computational fluid dynamics.

Seg & Predict

Integrating image segmentation and machine learning in London.

RL-Building Generator

Agent-based reinforcement learning to increase housing density in London.

Design

Architecture — from algorithmic aggregation to built detail.

(04)

Probability

Collective housing generated using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.

Still

Climbers’ shelter on top of a Polish mountain.

Yokai Hall

Exhibition hall of traditional Japanese Yokai culture.

Form and Force

Inverting form from designed force diagrams with 3D graphic statics.

Profile

Trained in landscape architecture at Beijing Forestry University and in architectural computation at UCL, I build design tools, simulations and learning systems — with a particular interest in how algorithms and mechanics give rise to form.

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