Emergent Programmatic Form-ation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783639199307)

The increasing use of computational techniques in architectural design clearly exhibits the temptation to develop geometries of formal complexity. However, it is a bigger challenge and responsibility to employ such techniques to address specific pragmatic references. Emergent Programmatic Form-ation illustrates how computational techniques can be integrated into current design and planning processes to coordinate complex relationships and conditions specific to urban housing. A series of explorations of varying program and scale demonstrate a shift in design potential of parametric modeling away from the ambiguity of formal complexity to a focus on programmatic and performance-based configurations. Emergent Programmatic Form-ation defines new grounds where computational techniques manipulate not only form, but also function, program and space. In each of the explorations, dynamic relationships are established between the digital design model and its programmatic influences. The model stores explicit performance-sensitive design decisions and constraints and responds to them simultaneously. This allows for a complex and cumulative expression, both programmatic and spatial.

Author: Yehia Madkour
ISBN-10: 3639199308
ISBN-13: 9783639199307
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2009
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d