negotiations of the emergent field Part 2 Project 2003 Roland Snooks Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Australia The project acts as an exploration of emergence, concerned with theinteraction of localised entities, or agents, and the behavior theydemonstrate in generating patterns of overall form. The generation of formis proposed as a negotiation between fields of information and the actionsof architectural elements seeded with behavioral desires. Operating on themodernist plaza surrounding Nauru House [Melbourne CBD], the projectreassesses the rigid relationship of plaza and program, creating instead acontiguous, smooth but differentiated weave of program, plaza and event. Theproject attempts to develop an emergent form of urban space, critiquing amodernist object ground relationship, instead viewing the urban condition asa gradient field of influence. In this exemplary project, Roland Snooks used agent based software todescribe programmatic relationships as emerging from a complex system ofinteractions. In distinction to the extreme abstractions architectsoften use to describe program and activities within buildings, hereagents model complex behaviours of large systems by assigning manyindividual desires and modes of interaction. Program is thought of as apotential field that enables traversing agents to become specific partsof the architecture. By linking building elements (facade, constructiongrid etc) to the agents, a truly interactive system results, where thebuilding fabric responds to emergent particularities of program, whichin turn conditions the limits of what can occur within the building.This foremost concern for rethinking architectural relationships inlight of digitally enabled methods establishes this project as of thehighest standard.