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NAME: JIANGLING LIAO
SEMESTER ONE, 2016 TUTOR: SONYA PARTON
UNIT: 8
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CONTENTS PART A: CONCEPTUALISATION
A0. INTROUDUCTION A1. DESIGN FUTURING A2. DESIGN COMPUTATION A3. COMPOSITION/GENERATION A4. CONCLUSION A5. LEARNING OUTCOMES APPENDIX: ALGORITHMIC SKETCHBOOK REFERENCE LIST
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I NTRODUCTION NAME: JIANGLING LIAO
STUDENT NUMBER: 683672 COURSE: BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTS MAJOR: ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
I grew in an Architecture family. My parents were
the project manager and electric welder in the
biggest China construction company, China
State Construction Engineering Corporation. As a
result, I spent the most of my school holiday in the
builders' temporary sheds in all parts of the China.
I witness the erections of varieties of buildings and
urbanization of the China. Since I immigrant with
the change of the construction site locations from
one city to another. I frequently observed the
negotiations between my parents and builders,
architects, mater ial suppl iers and investors.
Architects occupied a significant position in the
symposiums since they are creators. A n architecture
seed was planted in my childhood mind.
As for the digital design, my experience starts
from the Rhino Workshop at the middle of 2014
in Shenzhen. Since I purely have no background
of hand drawing. Computing design plays an
important role in expressing ideas and forming
concepts for me. I was surprised by this 3D Modeling
tools, since it can shape infinite forms whatever
and whenever you think. I use Rhino in my previous
two Studio: Earth and Water. My works emphasis
on giving the clients unique experience and fickle
emotions by creating transformable and sensible
space.
Digital Design and Fabrication lead my into a further
thinkings of computing design by designing an
object that accurately fit the body, expressing the
emotion change and defining the personal space.
Measuring the body in order to customize the object
that fit body reminded me the term of parametric.
The design purpose inspired me that Parametric
Design is not only about making output fancy but
acting as a tool that can be controlled by designer
to solve problems that are hard to be solved by
traditional methods. This subject drops me into a
really excited journey of parametric design.
I attended the 2015 parametric design workshop
in Tsinghua University and 2015 AA summer school
in Shanghai. I trying to using parametric design
method to find out a new weaving way which can
be used to braided arbitrarily shapes with Tsinghua
students. And practically design a future master
plan for Shanghai French Concession by analyzing
the history of the site and applying different building
topologies in Shanghai with the multiple criterial for
future.
Architectural Design Studio: Air is the first subject I will
participate in, which focus on the field of parametric
design. I wish that I can learn an integrated process
of parametric design and fabrication skills from this
subject.
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Architectural Association Visiting School
AAVS Shanghai Summer School
10-18 July 2015
Tutor Name: Zheng Lei
Unit Number: 7
Student Names: Weiran Wu | Jiangling Liao | Xin Ge | Mengying Li | Xiaohan Wei | Chengdi Zhang | Hongyu Zhou | Tzujung Huang | Chenchieh Sun | Xinghao Wang
Master plan Form-finding
Figure 3- ‘Micro-behaviours’, Second Skin design for ‘Digital Design and Fabrication’ subject, 2015
Figure 2- ‘Weaving arbitrarily geometry’, Digital Design for Tsinghua University Parametric Design Workshop, 2015
Figure 1- ‘Customized City’, Digital Urban Design for Shanghai AA Visting School, 2015
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DESIGH FUTURING
A1."Not in trying to predict the future but in using design to open up all sorts of possibilities that can be discussed, debated, and used to collectively define a preferable future for a given group of people: from companies, to cities, to societies."1
1. Dunne, Anthony & Raby, Fiona (2013) Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press) pp. 1-9, 33-45
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DESIGH FUTURING
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Changing the life pattern to challednge the likly super-
high desity urban in the future. The project considers
the problem of sprawl in cities and gives a typological
alternative: “the high-density vertical village”. By
reorienting the streets vertically, nine interconnected
residential towers redistribute the urban fabric to
cohere disparate neighborhoods into a vertical village
with public spaces and gardens in the sky according
. Connective corridors weave circulation between
towers to foster a sense of community among residents
and activate the towers as a “bustling village” within
the city. Formally, the high-rise tower is a statement of
power and social context. Cloud Corridor reconsiders
modernism’s residential tower typology and folds in
the design philosophy that residential building should
respond to nature and emphasize the environment.2
1.Dunne, Anthony & Raby, Fiona (2013) Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press) pp. 1-9, 33-45
2.Yansong Ma, ‘MAD Envisions the Future of Residential Buildings in Los Angeles ’, in MAD Architecturres <http://www.i-mad.com/> [accessed 7 March 2016]
3.Karissa Rosenfield, ‘MAD Architects Envision the Future of Housing in Los Angeles’, in Archdaily <http://www.archdaily.com/> [accessed 7 March 2016]
4.Lucy Wang, ‘MAD Architects unveil futuristic Cloud Corridor skyscrapers for Los Angeles’, in Inhabitat <http://www.inhabitat.com/> [accessed 7 March 2016]
C ASE STUDY 01 Project: Cloud Corridor
Architect: Yansong Ma Location: Los Angeles, USA Date:2015
01 Urban Density
This attampt really reforces the isuue of sustanable
future. Acted as an urban landmark,this project shows
the passion to nature. Each floor-plate contain gardens
to associate with residential units. The garden patios
and courtyards provide a unique environment within
the surrounding urban density4, and provide a retreat
from the everyday among nature. Elevated corridors
and multi-level garden patios shape the city skyline
and provide viewing platforms for residents to overlook
the busy activity below and the natural landscape
beyond1.
02 Vertical gradens
Adjacent to Museum Row, Cloud Corridor’s speculated
site sits above a forthcoming Metro station and
provides an opportunity to propel nature into the
everyday life of the city. Cloud Corridor’s podium
dually serves as a public park and as a transportation
hub, providing the site for activity after museum hours.
The sculpted podium is covered with a grass lawn and
punctuated by trees; the transformation of its massing
suggest the image of rolling hills. Simultaneously, the
podium lifts away from the ground to reveal both a
private-access lobby for tower residents and entry for
Metro Station patrons3. Merging infrastructure with
nature, Cloud Corridor’s podium blurs the boundary
between urban landscape and natural scenery2.
03 Podium park
This project is a competition work and has not been
built, which can be considered as an experimental
attempt that towards to the future. Critically, it may
lack of considering for the construction phase. But it
still gives us some possibilities1 and alternative solutions
to the urban development. Dealing with the limitation
of the urban land by changing the urban fabric
and change life pattern from horizontal to vertical.
The social and residential activities will happens in
3 dimensional axis of the cities.In a result, a mass
of space will be exploit. To order to deal with the
shortages of the urban green land. Vertical garden also
hired by the architect, this design is trying to give us the
more sustainable solutions for the urban space in the
future. The idea of using Podium as the park maintains
the theory of democratic design. Since the people
have greater power in deciding the environment what
they wish to live. The podium park offers a mass of
possible functions for people to choose.
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C ASE STUDY 02 Project: Masterplan Predicts Future of Self-Sustaining Cities
Architect: Vincent Callebaut Location: Roma, Italy Date:2015
urban ecosystem borns from the existing infrastructure,
responding to the site’s past as well as making it
livable for today’s occupants. The empty shells of its
industrial history are fitted with updated amenities,
transforming the buildings into diverse lofts. Similarly,
the existing paths are made into a usable network
through the insertion of public areas organized on a
grid, systematizing the layout of the entire site2.
In order to maintain the balance between public
space and private rooms, the city compartmentalizes
its functions. Although both the residential and
commercial activities define the perimeter of the site,
the residences maintain their intimacy by their distance
from the commercial activities, occupying opposing
sides and sitting back from the main street for ensured
privacy. Each of the buildings explores the notion of
public-private through the rooftop orchards, which
provide an element of seclusion even within the public
spaces. The extensive use of trees on the rooftops and
balconies not only beautifies the district, but represents
self-sufficiency. These gardens provide residents with
self-renewing sources of food. Additionally, they are
also play an important role in the aspects of CO2
filtration and harmful particulate removal3.
Natural daylighting , rainwater retention and recycling
system, have signif icant impacts on preserving
resources. Other sustainable strides are made through
photovoltaic electricity production, a hybridized
lighting system with integrated wind turbines, and hot
water production through solar tubes.
Additionally, the urban ecosystem is unique. The
functional zone is accessible by walk4. All cars are
kept outside the living space to mitigate the harmful
emissions.Adjacent to Museum Row, Cloud Corridor’s
speculated site sits above a forthcoming Metro station
and provides an opportunity to propel nature into the
everyday life of the city.
1.Fry, Tony (2008). Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford:
Berg), pp. 1–16
2.Vincent Callebaut, ‘Future of Self-Sustaining Cities’, in Vincent Callebaut
Architectures <http://vincent.callebaut.org/> [accessed 7 March 2016]
3.Holly Giermann, ‘Città della Scienza Masterplan Predicts Future of Self-Sustaining
Cities’, in Archdaily <http://www.archdaily.com/> [accessed 7 March 2016]
4.Kristine Lofgren, ‘Vincent Callebaut’s City of Science in Rome is turning a former
military district into a self-sufficient urban ecosystem’, in Inhabitat <http://www.
inhabitat.com/> [accessed 7 March 2016]
This master plan designed by the Vincent Callebaut
Architectures is the winners of a international planing
architectural competition. This plan provides a Self-
Sustaining Cities system for Italy, which bounds the
historical continuity with the sustainability. The project
trying to reuse a forgotten military district and gives it
new energy. Design future need to fill the gap between
current situation and the changes in political, social
and economic field.1 With the consideration of present
situation and environments of the military district, the
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DESIGH COMPUTATIONA2.
"Parametric design as a facility for the control of topological relationships enables the creation and modulation o f the differentiation o f the elements o f a design. The capability to create and modulate differentiation in various scales such as the gradation of elements in building facades or in urban schemes has begun to be exploited as a characteristic enabling facility of parametric design."1
Kalay, Yehuda E. (2004). Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 5-25
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C ASE STUDY 01 Project: Shanghai Tower
Architect: Gensler Location: Shanghai, China Date: 2014
Shanghai Tower is organized as nine cylindrical
buildings stacked one atop the other. The inner layer
of the double-skin façade encloses the stacked
buildings, while the exterior façade creates the
building envelope, which rotates 120 degrees as it
rises and gives Shanghai Tower its distinctive, curving
appearance. The spaces between the two façade
layers create nine atrium sky gardens1.
Computational design plays a significant role in the
process of the form finding of the Shanghai Tower.
Since Shanghai Tower is the second highest building
in the World in the design time. The skyscraper usually
facing the wind loads problem. The engineer doing
the wind tunnel experiment and extract the data. The
computational design software offer 6 best alternative
solutions for architect by using these data and working
with the local climate in Shanghai3. This process may
be hared to achieve by the traditional design method.
However, in order to maintain the design concept. The
final design form still chosen by the architect manually.
The computational design helps architect easily refined
the tower’s form, which reduced building wind loads
by 24 percent. The result is a lighter structure that saved
$58 million in costly materials2.
In addition, the computational method is not only
affect the design phase but also the construction
phase. The Outer Skin. Constructing a complex building
shape that had never before been conceived required
the most innovative tools. Designed with 20,000 +
curtain wall panels—including more than 7,000 unique
shapes2—the façade would have been challenging
to envision using traditional computer-aided design
tools. With parametric software, however, Gensler was
able to create a system that balances performance,
constructability, maintenance and design. Precise
tolerances were achieved by placing lasers on the site
to take measurements.
Futhernmore, the construction company engaged
the project earlier than the traditional project. The
construction company work well with the architect and
engineer through the BIM Modeling and construction
tools. The building was pre-constructed before the
construction work happens in reality. During the pre-
constructed process, there are a mass of error and
joint problem were found by the software and then
overcome by the computer. This correction helps the
investor save a lot in the construction phase. The BIM
also applied to the site to achieve “no paper work”,
each element and schedule become clearer that the
CAD ages. In the result, Shanghai tower is accurately
complete in the estimated time.
1.Aleksandar Sasha Zeljic, ‘Shanghai Tower Facade Design Process’, in Gensler <http://www.gensler.com/> [accessed 12 March 2016]
2.Karissa Rosenfield, ‘Gensler Tops Out on World's Second Tallest Skyscraper: Shanghai Tower ’, in Archdaily <http://www.archdaily.com/> [accessed 12 March 2016]
3.Toronto University, High Reynolds Number Tests, Shanghai Center Tower (Canada: Guelph, 2012), p.1-12.
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C ASE STUDY 02 Project: Guangzhou Opera House
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects Location: Guangzhou, China Date: 2010
Computational design helps architect to establish
their own brand. Since the core of the computational
design is to set the rule for the computer and extract
the results provided by the computer. As a result, the
rule and the selection become the two most important
steps. However, the rule and selection methods is
effected by the architects themselves. Every architect
has his own style and logic. Zaha Hadid is significant
example. People always can easily recognized her
own style through her projects with the linear and
smooth form in a relatively large scale.
The form of the Guangzhou Opera House is organic.
The form is followed by the concept and is achieved
by the parametric design. Guangzhou opera House is
shaped from the concepts of natural landscape and
fascinating interplay between architecture and nature,
engaging with the principle of erosion, geology and
topography. The Guangzhou Opera House has been
particularly influenced by river valleys and the way in
which they are transformed by erosion1. This organic
form would be difficult to achieve by the traditional
forming process, since the facade of the building is
continues and shaped according to the input data.
The traditional forming process is impossible to achieve
the variety in the every angle of the building. The
computation process is much easier helps architects
to find a more nature form. The shape of two stones for
Guangzhou Opera House. It is therefore, computational
design can transform site analysis datas even the local
cultural datas into architectural languages and create
the better solutions.
However, computational design also likely to create the
building that out of the control in both architecturally
and constructionally. In the architecturally thinkings,
the large scale of the building form may not really
suitable for the local conditions. The similar rules create
the similar building s may caused the fact that the
architecture industry is loosing their function of cultural
symbolization. The buildings create by the similar rule
would be homogenous. As a result, the creatively
thinking still required in the process of the computation.
In terms of construction, the irregular form massively
increase the construction load. The engineer and
architect need to locate, separate and optimized the
facade panel into relatively similar size and standard.
The work load is huge and the result is not that excited.
Most of the panel needed to be precast by the CNC
in the factory individually and then transferred to the
site2. This requires the higher standard ability for both
architects and the construction groups. It cost a lot in
the process of the customizing manufacturing and
building materials.
However, the building performance is better off from
the computation. In order to achieve the prefect
sound in the theater. The specialist in acoustics is
invited to the project and engage with the architect to
set the rule3. The acoustic panel is customized with the
acoustic theory. The dimension and the location of the
hole in each panel is various and precast by the laser
machines in the factory.
1.Joseph Giovannini, ‘Guangzhou Opera House’, in Architect <http://www.architectmagazine.com/> [accessed 12 March 2016]
2.Iwan Baan, ‘Guangzhou Opera House / Zaha Hadid Architects ’, in Archdaily <http://www.archdaily.com/> [accessed 12 March 2016]
3.Luis Pina Lopes, ‘Parametric Architecture and Design ’, in Scoop <http://www.scoop.it/t/parametric-architecture-and-design> [accessed 12 March 2016]
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COMPOSITION/GENERATION
A3."The processing of information and interactions between elements which constitute a specific environment; it provides a framework for negotiating and influencing the interrelation of datasets of information, with the capacity to generate complex order, form, and structure."1
1.Peters, Brady. (2013) ‘Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought’, Architectural Design, 83, 2, pp. 08-15
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C ASE STUDY 01 Project: Beijing national Aquatics Center : Water Cube
Architects: PTW Architects, CSCEC, CCDI and Arup Location: Beijing, China Date: 2004
For centuries architects have begun the design
process by sketching concepts and geometric forms.
The designer puts stick to dirt, pen to paper or mouse
to mousepad. But this centuries old notion of how
to begin the design process is changing. Architects
are using the process with scripts, algorithms and
simulations. They feed detailed project data and
requirements into these programs and are fed
back multiple design iterations optimized to meet
these requirements. This process has been called
“computational design” and “generative design”1,
The Water Cube's soap bubble-like structure is an
example of this approach. Computational design
helps a lot in this process. Rather than using multiple
versions to decide what is best based on comparison,
architects can instead use compuing power to find
structural solutions that are self-organizing; that is, not
decided on by an individual but arrived at by genetic
algorithms that iteratively apply relatively simple rules.
Design groups calculate that the most efficient way
to divide a space into cells of equal volume while
minimizing the surface area between them was to use
a stacked arrangement composed of 75% 14-sided
shapes and 25% 12-sided shapes2.
But since the resulting structure would have 22,000 steel
members connected at 12,000 nodes2, generating
an actual model based on the idea exceeded the
reach of conventional design.This is the type of time-
consuming computational work that is ideally suited
to a computer. Arup wrote parametric software
that automated the drawing and analysis process.
Based on specified design constraints and less than
190 loading scenarios, the algorithm iteratively
checked the distribution of forces through the entire
structure based on specific member sizes, allowing
the team to test different design configurations and
receive feedback within 25 minutes3. The result was
a spectacular building with a sophisticated structure
that is optimized in terms of material weight-to-strength
ratio, and it was achieved with relative ease.
In addition to the structural advantages, Arup
estimated that it saved $10 million on design costs
alone compared with traditional design methods3.
However computation is not the perfect solution for
the architecture industry. Since the process of selecting
one of these alternatives to design a highly functional
and beautiful corporate building that reflects the
client’s aesthetic, cultural and corporate values
cannot be replaced by computer. Human beings is
ideally suitable for this.
Furthermore, computational design isn’t a death of
CAD or death of composition design moment. The
data and design parameters generated by these
algorithms aren’t meant to replace a 3D model or
floorplan. Instead they are an upstream process that
will inform those models and floorplans. Architects
spend much of their time collaborating with clients,
finding mutually agreeable solutions and making
qualitative decisions – all tasks that humans tend to do
better than computers.
1.Builtr, ‘Generative Architecture-Transformation by Computation; <http://www.builtr.io/> [accessed 15 March 2016]
2.Holly Giermann, ‘Generative Design Is Changing the Face of Architecture’, in Cadlyst <http://www.cadalyst.com/> [accessed
15 March 2016]
3.Sander Boer, ‘Generative Design is the Future’, in Anarchi <http://www.anarchi.cc/> [accessed 15 March 2016]
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C ASE STUDY 02 Project: Pavilion for One Summer
Architects: Students at the University of Innsbruck Location: Austria Date: 2013
Computational design has revolution changes the
recognition of the architecture. In the composition
architecture forming system, we recognized the
object under the system of “rational geometry”,
such as cylinder, diamonds, sphere and etc.. This
logic shapes our imagination and recognition about
the architectures. The buildings should look like the
building. This traditional mode of thinkings are result
from the functionalist. The architecture has its own
orders and the arrangement of the a building is the
result of the functional distribution3. The creativity in the
traditional composition mode design is deconstruction
and geometry form changes.
H o w e v e r, t h e b a s i c d e s i g n e l e m e n t s i n t h e
computational design process is computer script
rather than geometry. The computer scripts create
the irregular form that hard to be described by the
traditional geometry under the composition system.
They are Nurb surface, Nurb curves and the points2.
Parametricism creates a new style of building form,
which give us a new way to explode the world through
scripts rather than through geometry. In other words,
architects set the scripts for computer, through the
mass of computer calculation, the various of forms with
the mathematic logic are generated automatically.
In the our physical nature world, most of the object
are irregular. They are formed by the nature principles.
They are generated by the very simple rule but
achieve in a mass quantities and large scale. The
complex geometry always achieved by the simple
rule according to Frank Wright3. He also raised that the
most rational design is the most organic design that
followed the order of the nature.
Computational design provide a better solution
to analysis and simulate the nature and make the
architecture become organic. The forms of sand dune,
water drop and stone can be analysis and understand
by the architects and then using the computational
method to create. Not only the rule of the nature can
be used as the script for computational design but also
the rule that discovered by multiple-disciplines, such
as engineering, biology. The more various, rational,
harmony forms can be created. This is called “the
second nature”. The architects can test more efficient
form without the reference to the history and the
experiences.
The Sea Urchin Skeletons Pavilion is an appropriate
example for this argument.The organic shape of the
pavilion resembles the structure of a sea urchin, whose
superior anatomy and structure have inspired the
creation of numerous parametric designs over the
years. In the case of this wooden pavilion, the cellular
structure of the sea urchin skeleton was translated into
a shape made out of 30 D-forms with circular openings.
The D-forms were arranged in a voronoi-pattern and
intersected to create the final design1.
The structural efficiency optimization was applied to
this project to optimize the structural of the pavilion
created by the natural rule, in order to save the
material usage.
1.Lidija Grozdanic, ‘Wooden ‘Pavilion for One Summer’ in Austria is Modeled After Sea Urchin Skeletons', in Inhabitat <http://www.inhabitat.com/> [accessed 18 March 2016] 2.Harvard University, ‘Gernerative Design’, in Harvard University <http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/> [accessed 18 March 2016] 3.Patrikschumancher, ‘Gernerative Design in Architecture, in Patrischumancher <http://www.patrikschumacher.com/> [accessed 13W March 2016]
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CONCLUSION
A4.
Part A Journal discuss a process of the changing in the architectural industry. Computat ional design opens a new sustainable design future for al l the architects and changes the way we discover the world. Moving from the geometry base to script base considerations. Computational design provides us boarder possibi l ity and increase the building performance. But it still cause problem on the constriction p h a s e . T h e p r o j e c t r e q u i r e s customized materials and higher manufacturing skills. Since the result of the computational design is hard to be estimated, the design concept is relatively difficult to achieve by the computational design. This requires advanced level of the control ability and the experience of architects.
I intend to not only problem solving but also creating a new order and rule for Merri Creek community in term of create a sustainable future. The investigation of the Merri Creek ecosystem i s s ign i f icant for my design. This included the vegetation and animal types and theirs living conditions. I tying to promote the communication between the nature and human but not damage the habitats for animals and vegetations.
The animal l ifecycle and human footprint would be transformed to my input data. I trying to find simple rule that can deal with this complex problem. Let them intersect but not swallow each others.
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L EARNING OUTCOMES
A5.The readings and lectures give me a brand new thinking of the design process. I recognize all the project that did with the Grasshopper was computational design before I took this subject. But I have a clearer definition about computerization and computation. Computational design gives us a new way to define our world. To create the form with the rule that set by the architect. The parameter can control and change the form in a given range. The design is not start from the geometry and composition but the computer script and the mathematic logic behind the script.
Computational design provide me infinite possibility. The design can start from any disciplines and achieve the mass of result that cannot be estimated. The result than can be optimized by the analysis script. Computational design have the mass calculation ability and give you the most accurate and suitable result according to result. Computational design effect the design process from every phase included form f inding, bui lding performance increasing and the construction managing. H o w e v e r , I a l s o n o t i c e d t h a t t h e computational design in some aspect is really dangerous. The design is likely to occur formalism. In this situation, I should
pay more attention on the connection between the script and my design concept. Use the grasshopper as a tool to generate the form for me. And select the most appropriate solution according to the concept manually by myself.
Fabrication is another issue about the crisis of the computational design. Instead of forming complex and unachievable geometry, I will trying to extract the basic rule from nature. The organic shape will be create by the simple rule. Always take the fabrication into consideration during the modeling phase. The optimization of the form according to the manufactural requirement is significant necessary.
To rethink of my previous works. I find that I was doing both composition design and computational design. For the function and space focus design I used the compositional design that can think every space carefully. The form is followed by the function requirements. As for the large scale urban design and the design that emphasis on the local environment. The computational design probably offer me a better solution by applying the topology locally.
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