Artificial Buildings: Safety, Complexity and a Quantifiable Measure of Beauty

TL;DR

This paper explores the evolution of building construction from natural to artificial, discusses safety and philosophical concerns of automation, and introduces a complexity measure based on Kolmogorov complexity to quantify beauty in architecture.

Contribution

It proposes a novel complexity measure for buildings using Kolmogorov complexity, linking it to a quantifiable measure of beauty in architecture.

Findings

A new complexity measure for buildings based on algorithmic information theory

Discussion of safety and philosophical issues in automated construction

Linking complexity to aesthetic evaluation of buildings

Abstract

A place to live is one of the most crucial necessities for all living organisms since the advent of life on planet Earth. The nature of homes has changed considerably over time. At the very early stages, human begins lived in natural places such as caves. Later on, they started to use their intelligence to build places with special purposes. Nowadays, modern technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have made their ways into the construction process and opened up a whole new area of opportunities and concerns that may be of interest to both technologists and philosophers. In this article, I review the evolution of buildings from fully natural to fully artificial and discuss philosophical thoughts that a fully automated construction technology may raise. I elaborate on the safety concerns of a fully automated architectural process. Then, I'll borrow Kolmogorov complexity from algorithmic information theory to define a complexity measure for buildings. The proposed measure is then used to provide a quantifiable measure of beauty.