Emergent Explorations: Analog and Digital Scripting

• Main Author: Worden, Alexander
• Other Authors: Architecture
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: Virginia Tech 2014
• Subjects: Frei Otto; Analog Computing; Textile; Crochet; Gottfried Semper; LD5655.V855 2011.W673
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32543; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05102011-225915/

This book documents an exploration of emergent and linear modes of defining space, form, and structure. The thesis highlights a dialog between analog and digital modeling techniques, in concept and project development. It identifies that analog modeling techniques, coupled with judgment, can be used to develop complex forms. The thesis project employs critical judgment and the textile techniques of crochet as a vehicle generate form. Crochet lends itself to this investigation because it is a serial process of fabrication that allows for the introduction of specific non-linear modifications. The resulting emergent forms produced by this mode of working can be precisely described by digital modeling techniques. These analog crochet models are translated into the digital through the employment of advanced digital modeling tools. This translation enables the visualization, development, testing, and execution of an architectural space, form, and structure. === Master of Architecture