Informed Architecture : Computational Strategies in Architectural Design

✍ Scribed by Cocchiarella, Luigi; Hemmerling, Marco

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book connects the different topics and professions involved in information technology approaches to architectural design, ranging from computer-aided design, building information modeling and programming to simulation, digital representation, augmented and virtual reality, digital fabrication and physical computation. The contributions include experts’ academic and practical experiences and findings in research and advanced applications, covering the fields of architecture, engineering, design and mathematics.

What are the conditions, constraints and opportunities of this digital revolution for architecture? How do processes change and influence the result? What does it mean for the collaboration and roles of the partners involved. And last but not least: how does academia reflect and shape this development and what does the future hold? Following the sequence of architectural production - from design to fabrication and construction up to the operation of buildings - the book discusses the impact of computational methods and technologies and its consequences for the education of future architects and designers. It offers detailed insights into the processes involved and considers them in the context of our technical, historical, social and cultural environment. Intended mainly for academic researchers, the book is also of interest to master’s level students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Informed Architecture....Pages 3-10
The Colors of Black: Digital Computation as a Spectrum of Knowledge....Pages 11-18
Simple Complexities: An Interdisciplinary Approach Towards Computational Design and Architectural Geometry....Pages 19-32
The Algorithms-Aided Design (AAD)....Pages 33-38
Building Information Modeling: The ‘C’ in BIM....Pages 39-52
Open Source Fabrication....Pages 53-64
Robots in Architecture, Research and Development....Pages 65-76
Mass Customization in the Era of Industry 4.0: Towards Immaterial Building Technology....Pages 77-87
Augmented Realities....Pages 89-104
Computation in Architecture: Potential and Challenges for Research and Education....Pages 105-113
Human, Space and Digitization....Pages 115-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Design-Build Projects in Academia....Pages 121-122
Twister....Pages 123-128
SunSys....Pages 129-138
Boxel....Pages 139-144
Design to Production....Pages 145-150
Sparkler....Pages 151-156
Karamba....Pages 157-162
Moebius....Pages 163-168
Reciprocal Structure....Pages 169-176
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Origami....Pages 177-183
(Un)Folding Space....Pages 185-193