Ecological Pattern---Preliminary Study in Non-linear Parametric Design

• Main Authors: Nai-ChunChen, 陳乃君
• Other Authors: Tay-Sheng Jeng
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14025809541059268862

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 建築學系碩博士班 === 100 === The objective of this research is to explore the ecological pattern of non-linear parameter design. Although computer-aided design has been merged into the mainstream of architectural education and design practice, most of the research works are focused on the relationship between modeling, visualization, and digital fabrication. This thesis explores the implicit logic of algorithm-based digital design in the form-finding process. The thesis provides a research method that is consisted of three parts. The first part investigates the role of the role of non-linear parametric design before modernism and in digital era by applying literature analysis .The second part sorts out t the commonly used parametric software and computational mechanism which can generate form. The third part implements algorithm which are mentioned in the previous chapter as design method to generating three experimental parametric design. Three experimental design embedded scripting, fabrication and digital technology, each of them address non-linear parametric design in computer-aided architectural design in design process. The major finding of this research shows that algorithm-based design is an exploration-based approach to architectural design, yet requiring embedded design logic associated with computation. To find a satisfactory architectural form, it is necessary to refine the digital model and transform it into a more appropriate design solution. The experimentation of digital tools and algorithmic processes of creating forms have given architects the opportunity to generate increasingly complex visual forms in emerging design practice.