- Title
- Rethinking architectural vocabulary. Comprehensive design resolution via integrated BIM platforms
- Creator
- Zavoleas, Yannis
- Relation
- 50th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association. Fifty years later: Revisiting the role of architectural science in design and practice: 50th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2016 ( 7-9 December, 2016) p. 1-10
- Relation
- http://anzasca.net/category/conference-papers/2016-conference-papers/
- Publisher
- The Architectural Sciene Association and The University of Adelaide
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This paper revisits established practices in architecture related to the instruments of production and addresses their profound influences upon the design outcome. Cartesian geometry has been used as a common reference to represent architectural elements, a view that has been applied into mainstream design software. The enduring ideologies assume the architectural product to be the result of aesthetic-driven operations supporting geometric regularity in defining elements' shape and relative positioning. These approaches are compared to alternative ones described as form-finding, making extensive use of the computer's power, often deviating from Cartesian basis, setting the ground for contemporary design research. In these cases, architectural elements are topological compounds undergoing generative operations. Architectural form is seen as an organic output emerging from interactions, shared functions, performed relationships and feedback loops, rather than ones typically offering full aesthetic control. It is noted that processes related to data inputs, agent management, simulation and recursive testing generally applied to facilitate tectonic resolution via integrated BIM platforms may equally describe those of early design decisions. Such a prospect may set the framing to update existing BIM software, so that the phases of analysis, ideation and conceptualisation are linked with those related to further development, engineering, manufacturing and completion.
- Subject
- dynamic simulation; agent-based; BIM; form-finding
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1346251
- Identifier
- uon:29818
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780992383534
- Language
- eng
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