Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication for Demountable Curved Surface Structure

• Main Authors: Yi-fine Chen, 陳易凡
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ucv2a3

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 建築系 === 99 === With the improvement of digital technology, it has a revolutionary impact for architecture whether in the respect of design or manufacture. In the part of design, the designers can build more complicated curved-surface form more quickly, efficiently and accurately by the parametric technique imported. The improvement of digital produced technique makes the curved-surface construct easier. Recently, the digital architecture is getting popular in Taiwan; however, it mainly focuses on digital forms but lacks the discussion of applied digital technology from designing to constructing, and leading to the design can’t combine with local construct technique. Therefore, the study takes demountable curved-surface structure for example to explore the digital technology how to build the curved-surface structure. A "Case Based Design" method is used for finding referable experience as a basis of form. After establishing the design objectives and requirements, California Academy of Sciences which constructs the surface by the I-beam is selected as the initial case to design the demountable curved-surface structure. The study develops and makes the I-beam more close to the surface by rotating and further finds the ways to demountable I-beam by gathering, integrating related cases, and making reduced scaled models. Through various revising and modeling, the final design is completed. In the process, the study uses Rhino-Grasshopper, a parametric design tool, to make all components of I-beam be manufactured in plane. Furthermore, components combine together by utilizing the design of joggled joint. Those combinations of traditional construction method and modern design tool develop as a demountable curved-surface construction method differently. To simulate the feasibility of real-life applications and holding the spirit of building by ourselves, corrugated cardboard and a laser cutter for digital fabrication are used to make a reduced scaled model and a full scaled model. Based on the procedure, the study has reviews and revises until the design meets objectives and requirements. By the full process from designing to producing, it experiences practically the methods and procedures of digital construction. Conclusively, the research reveals that by using a parametric program as a tool of digital construction, it not only improves successfully the efficiency of design and the limit of massive customization, but also creates the new construction method by combining with the traditional method. Utilizing the parametric tools from design to manufacture integrates efficiently the relative technique including design, structure, management, digital manufacture, etc. The experience mentioned from this study can be a reference for follow-up digital architecture researches.