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Ornamental Discretisation of Free-form Surfaces
Developing Digital Tools to Integrate Design Rationalisation with the Form Finding Process
The adoption of digital planning methods has given rise to an unprecedented formal freedom in architectural design. Free-form shapes enjoy considerable popularity in architectural production today. However, these shapes prove to be notoriously hard to fabricate. In the course of a funded research project we investigated the approximation of continuous double-curved surfaces by discrete meshes consisting solely of planar facets, which can be fabricated efficiently using standardised, mass-produced building materials. We introduce our geometrical approach, which is based on the intersection of tangent planes to the surface, and present the digital tools we conceived to integrate the processes of design rationalisation and form-finding.
Ornamental Discretisation of Free-form Surfaces
Developing Digital Tools to Integrate Design Rationalisation with the Form Finding Process
The adoption of digital planning methods has given rise to an unprecedented formal freedom in architectural design. Free-form shapes enjoy considerable popularity in architectural production today. However, these shapes prove to be notoriously hard to fabricate. In the course of a funded research project we investigated the approximation of continuous double-curved surfaces by discrete meshes consisting solely of planar facets, which can be fabricated efficiently using standardised, mass-produced building materials. We introduce our geometrical approach, which is based on the intersection of tangent planes to the surface, and present the digital tools we conceived to integrate the processes of design rationalisation and form-finding.
Ornamental Discretisation of Free-form Surfaces
Developing Digital Tools to Integrate Design Rationalisation with the Form Finding Process
Manahl, Markus (author) / Stavric, Milena (author) / Wiltsche, Albert (author)
International Journal of Architectural Computing ; 10 ; 595-612
2012-12-01
18 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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