Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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New Materiality: Digital Fabrication and Open Form. Notes on the Arbitrariness of Architectural Form and Parametric Design
Digitally conscious architectural design is founded on the assumption that computer tools should modify architecture’s own language, not just the way architects must work. The idea of open form is the result of producing encoded designs, that is: geometry is defined parametrically and codified in a non material language instead of being imposed over materiality –drawings or physical models- as is characteristic to architectural design tradition. A parametric design is open in as much as it defines a topological model where the connectivity between the parts and their relation to the whole generates a typology of possible designs limited by the range of parameters involved. Some parallels can be drawn with Eco’s idea of open form referring to some artistic production of the second half of the XX century. The increased complexity that can be achieved with new design tools has often led to a banal formalism inconsistent with architecture’s own tradition. The baroqueness of recent digital designs is confronted with the aesthetics of simplicity established by Modernism derived from its constructive principles. As Tafuri or Moneo pointed out, and recently Eisenman has proved with his own architectural production, there is a certain degree of arbitrariness in architectural form. However, architectural sense must rely on the principles of utility and construction. Thus, arbitrariness of architectural form should not be confused with arbitrariness of architectural design; it just refers to the fact that the complexity inherent to architecture may not optimize the relation between form and function. Thus, a variety of different architectural forms may well suffice the use requirements for each project. Digital tools have improved the potential of architectural design thus broadening architecture’s role and providing the apparatus to explore geometries and constructive systems that would have been unimaginable decades ago. C.A.D./C.A.M. tools are beginning to produce extraordinary synergies in the context of complexity. ...
New Materiality: Digital Fabrication and Open Form. Notes on the Arbitrariness of Architectural Form and Parametric Design
Digitally conscious architectural design is founded on the assumption that computer tools should modify architecture’s own language, not just the way architects must work. The idea of open form is the result of producing encoded designs, that is: geometry is defined parametrically and codified in a non material language instead of being imposed over materiality –drawings or physical models- as is characteristic to architectural design tradition. A parametric design is open in as much as it defines a topological model where the connectivity between the parts and their relation to the whole generates a typology of possible designs limited by the range of parameters involved. Some parallels can be drawn with Eco’s idea of open form referring to some artistic production of the second half of the XX century. The increased complexity that can be achieved with new design tools has often led to a banal formalism inconsistent with architecture’s own tradition. The baroqueness of recent digital designs is confronted with the aesthetics of simplicity established by Modernism derived from its constructive principles. As Tafuri or Moneo pointed out, and recently Eisenman has proved with his own architectural production, there is a certain degree of arbitrariness in architectural form. However, architectural sense must rely on the principles of utility and construction. Thus, arbitrariness of architectural form should not be confused with arbitrariness of architectural design; it just refers to the fact that the complexity inherent to architecture may not optimize the relation between form and function. Thus, a variety of different architectural forms may well suffice the use requirements for each project. Digital tools have improved the potential of architectural design thus broadening architecture’s role and providing the apparatus to explore geometries and constructive systems that would have been unimaginable decades ago. C.A.D./C.A.M. tools are beginning to produce extraordinary synergies in the context of complexity. ...
New Materiality: Digital Fabrication and Open Form. Notes on the Arbitrariness of Architectural Form and Parametric Design
01.01.2011
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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