TY - GEN
T1 - Beyond the Bubble
T2 - 33rd International Conference on Education and research in Computer aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2015
AU - Langenhan, Christoph
AU - Petzold, Frank
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In the early stages of the design process, the conceptual idea of the envisaged building and its design parameters is still vague and incomplete. While the built environment, the end product of this design process, can be represented concretely in the form of drawings or computer models, the initial design idea can usually only be formulated abstractly, for example as schematic functional descriptions or as topological constellations of spaces. In this paper we discuss the use of reference projects to support the design process along with ways of formalising spatial configurations and their use in the design process, and examine how these can be supported using software tools. We discuss the elaboration of requirements for such software tools and their implementation as plug-in to facilitate a seamless process from analysis to evaluation in a parametric design environment. By way of example, we describe selected functionality of a plug-in developed for "Grasshopper" and "Rhino 3D" to support the design process in the early conceptual stages.
AB - In the early stages of the design process, the conceptual idea of the envisaged building and its design parameters is still vague and incomplete. While the built environment, the end product of this design process, can be represented concretely in the form of drawings or computer models, the initial design idea can usually only be formulated abstractly, for example as schematic functional descriptions or as topological constellations of spaces. In this paper we discuss the use of reference projects to support the design process along with ways of formalising spatial configurations and their use in the design process, and examine how these can be supported using software tools. We discuss the elaboration of requirements for such software tools and their implementation as plug-in to facilitate a seamless process from analysis to evaluation in a parametric design environment. By way of example, we describe selected functionality of a plug-in developed for "Grasshopper" and "Rhino 3D" to support the design process in the early conceptual stages.
KW - Graph theory
KW - Interdisciplinary education
KW - Parametric design
KW - Topological strategies
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85124754568
SN - 9789491207082
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
SP - 237
EP - 243
BT - Real Time - Extending the Reach of Computation
A2 - Martens, Bob
A2 - Wurzer, Gabriel
A2 - Grasl, Thomas
A2 - Lorenz, Wolfgang E.
A2 - Schaffranek, Richard
PB - Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Y2 - 16 September 2015 through 18 September 2015
ER -