Computational design
A case study
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https://doi.org/10.18861/ania.2022.12.1.3216Keywords:
parametric design, Computational design, algorithmic design, generative design, new technologies, digital designAbstract
Throughout history, man has sought to perfect systems for creating and representing space ever more accurately. But it was not until the invention of computers and the development of digital systems that a Copernican turning point in design truly took place, a revolution that replaced traditional design processes based on manual drawing. In less than thirty years, a new generation of digital procedures went from representing space (digital design) to being used as a tool to enhance the designers' design capabilities (computational design).
Based on these assumptions, the aim of this work is to analyse and classify three emblematic projects from the end of the 20th century, three projects that, although not built, marked a milestone in the history of recent architecture.
For their analysis, we will take as a reference the taxonomy elaborated by Inês Caetano, Luís Santos and António Leitão, in their article Computational design in architecture: Defining parametric, generative, and algorithmic design (2020). In this article, the authors identify that contemporary scientific literature related to computational design is associated with three terms: parametric design, algorithmic design, and generative design. For this reason, we will use these terms as central axes for our classification and analysis.
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