ARCH1101 Mashup
TECHNOLOGY
THE NEAR FUTURE
The Next
Generation of Computational Design
Architects have
a lot more to gain from the tech world than software—namely, management
techniques.
It has
become unusual to design architecture without computers, but the convenience
and expedience come at a price. Many firms now must spend time developing their
own algorithms, scripts, and plugins to coax the software into producing the
designs they want. To aid this process, they often hire computational designers
and expect their design staff to be familiar with computational concepts, such
as programming and parametric modeling. Although many architects can program, they don’t program like software engineers.
The
research presented in this paper focuses on the development of a computational
design approach that is based on the integration of material properties and
characteristics. Understanding wood as a natural composite system of cellulose
fibers embedded in a lignin and hemicelluloses matrix characterized by relatively
high strain at failure, that is high load-bearing capacity with relatively low
stiffness, the particular focus of this paper is the investigation of how the
bending behavior of wood can become a generative design driver in such
computational processes…highly performative wood architecture.
Abstract
A
product’s architecture can affect many
aspects of product and process quality, from technical performance to the
design effort required, production costs and satisfaction of later lifecycle
requirements. This paper explores how computational tools can augment creative
methods in product architecture design. Based on an empirical study aiming to
understand the context of product architecture design, a new computational
method is proposed to support this activity. In the method, product
architectures—networks of components linked by connections—can be synthesized
using constraints on the structure of the network to define the set of ‘réalisable’ architectures for a product.
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