Emergent Design Process

Genetic Algorithm as Digital Design Tool

As architecture enters the new era of digital representation, geometrical theories and processes are being implemented, tested, and pushed to their limits. Recent theories of form in architecture have focused on computational methods of formal exploration and expression. From topological geometry and hyper surfaces to blobs and folds, there is a clear tendency to seek and explore formal properties as sources of ordering systems. For the last two decades, designers have been concerned with the use of computational mechanisms for the exploration of formal systems. These practices have attempted to readdress formal issues using new techniques and methods. Computational tools are central protagonists in this exploration.

Automated computer algorithms that generate previously unimagined and even undetermined virtual architecture strive to translate the expression of design ideas as perceived by designers. Algorithmic architecture involves the designation of software programs to generate space and form from the rule-based logic inherent in architectural programs. Instead of direct programming, the codification of design intention using scripting languages available in 3D packages (i.e. Maya Embedded Language MEL, 3DMaxScript, and Form Z 4.0) can build consistency, structure, coherency, traceability, and intelligence into computerized 3D form. This research paper investigates and explores genetic algorithms and computational methods that would encapsulate the processes that lead to the generation of logical and meaningful architectural form.

ADVANCED DESIGN PROCESSES

ADVANCED DESIGN PROCESSES
New technologies new solutions

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Following some examples of contemporary architecture like (examples), we realize that the integration of industrial processes, new digital software’s, manufacturing tools and automated machines are helping in the exercise of architecture in terms of design process and the actual construction of architecture. Frank Ghery’s Der Neue Zollhof buildings in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he used CNC machines to generate forms in order to make pre cast concrete component for the realization of the project. It’s unfeasible to number exactly how many engineering processes are being used these days on the manufacture of industrial products from bottles, tires, to cloths, cars and so on, furthermore impossible to count the amount of automated machines used in each industrial process. Since we notice that some architects are using machines or manufacturing processes to generate architecture and also the majority is using the same machines, consequently we found attractive to study different machines or processes in order to question it from an architectural point of view trying to obtain benefits for the exercise of architecture. Therefore we are going to look at 4D CAD, PET blowing process and Vulcanization process.

KEYWORDS: Design processes, technologies, 4D CAD, 3D modeling, vertical extension, Vulcanization, PET blowing, rubber, form, recycle, machines;

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Research Papers - Submission List

Here is the list of Research Papers and related information (8 images + blog post) submitted until now. If there is any incorrection, please comment about it.
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G01: "Rejecting Materiality. In-Forming Forms"
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G02: "Advanced Design Processes"
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G03: "Mass-Customization and the PreFab House"
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G04: "Emergent Form. History, Tools and Practicioners."
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G05: "Nanotechnologies and Architecture"
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G06: "Forms and Tectonics of Emergent Architecture"
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G07: "Tradition Revised"
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G08: "Emergent Design Process"
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G09: "DNArch"
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G10: "Clouds in the Bottles"
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G11: "Tech is More?"
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G12: "Collective Intelligence in the Process of Real-Time Environment Reprogramming"
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G13: "Ubiquitius Culture in Architecture"
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G14: "The Relationship between Design and Engineering"
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G15: "Hyperbodies: CADMAS as SS SEI"
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G16: "Digital Technologie's Implementation on Urban Design"
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G17: "Coherence and Chronology in Digital Design Manifestation"
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G18: "The Reform of Architecture Through the Use of Digital Technologies"
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The Relationship between Design and Engineering

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Digital Technology, or binary controlled ways of processing and storing data, provides for a common conversion of various problems into a single mode of operation. These were previously managed by separate consultancies, requiring laborious management and organizational investment. In other words, digital technology forms a common platform where many issues can be related to each other and be resolved using a common language, enabling a more diverse view. Both literally and metaphorically, the conversion of all languages into 0s and 1s allows for such an interaction.

The Finite Element Method has been developed over the second half of the last century and is being utilized with the emerging digital technologies in the analysis of many aspects of the design world. Programs such as AnSys and Abaqus are software based on the finite element method (FEM) applied to simulate many engineering issues ranging from the very basic to complicated non-linear questions. They are technologies that have been developed for the last 20 years and are ever changing to meet the engineering needs of today. This research will look into FEM as well as how it is used with the Abaqus software suite.

The suite consists of Abaqus/Standard, Abaqus/Explicit, and Abaqus/CAE. Abaqus Standard is applied to static, low-speed dynamic, or steady-state transport analisis; while Abaqus/Explicit may be applied to those portions of the analysis where high-speed, nonlinear, transient response dominates the solution. Using Abaqus CAE one can create geometry, import CAD models for meshing or integrate geometry - based meshes that do not have associated CAD geometry. Abaqus/CAE also offers comprehensive visualization options which enable users to interpret and communicate the results of any Abaqus analysis.

The software is used by engineers working in fields of aerospace, defense, automotive & transportation, industrial design, such as furniture and packaging (including both the design and the production process), high-tech, industrial equipment, service industry, shipbuilding, power process & petroleum industry, life sciences, and most certainly, in the field of architecture and construction. The program is quite limitless in its scope.

The broad range of uses of the FEM based software presents a notable point of integration between fields. One analysis of a field, such as industrial design, can raise questions in any number of other fields. With so many options of use the suite allows for an open dialogue between design fields, in a way becoming a tool of translation between the different domains of design and engineering. This exchange between different fields can create more efficient, safer and better overall designs in each of the involved fields.

This paper will make an in depth investigation of the Finite Element Method as well as how it is being used with software interfaces. The aim of the paper is to establish a dialogue between engineers and designers, with the objective of giving designers the basic information about the method and the technology so as to have more in productive conversations with engineers.

DNArch

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Deoxyribonucleic acid, or as it is mostly known DNA, is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. Scientists have not only managed to translate this code, but also to manipulate it. Cell characteristics and functions can now be altered, only by inputting different genes in their genetic code.
This scientific revolution could become an important tool in architectural processes, as well. Genetic architecture does not focus only on the organic biomorphic forms, but also on the ways Nature develops itself. Genetic manipulated bio-materials have already been developed and could be introduced in building structures. Moreover, architects like Alberto T. Estévez, are visioning the “living building” which consists of alive elements and finally recreates the environment. Synthetic Biology has already started investigating the development of artificial life-like cells, which can evolve and be self-reproduced and self-maintained. These alive bricks are potential to become the “bricks” of the new architecture organisms…