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Tim Ireland
Tim is director of digital architecture and a senior lecturer at the Kent School of Architecture. He is a UK-registered architect who, having worked in small-scale private and large-scale international practices in the United Kingdom and overseas, turned to focus on his interests in natural systems and computation. Awarded an EPSRC research grant in 2008, Tim completed his Ph.D. (2013) in architecture and computational design at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London. Tim’s research is a synthesis of algorithmic and biological design thinking. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, his research is a combination of synthesizing several different strands of theoretical work on conceptualizing, representing and analysing space and spatiality, and developing computer codes that simulate bioinspired spatial self-organization. The purpose of these two endeavours is to (1) probe and improve the concept of space for architectural practice and (2) make a case for the use of such computational tools as creative stimuli for early stage design processes. Understanding space to arise from the interplay of dynamic habitual agencies, he proposes that architects may benefit from embracing a decentralized approach to configuration in order to mediate and articulate inhabitation.