Seeking Performative Beauty (2011)
article⁄Seeking Performative Beauty (2011)
abstract⁄With digital design and fabrication becoming ever more common in architectural design, the computational geometry topic of discretizing freeform surfaces into flat panels has become a common challenge. At the present, most approaches to the issue of preserving a 2Dtessellation on a freeform surface are focused on optimizing the shape of the structure by approximating geometric ’equallysized’ flat patterns. In doing so, these strategies treat the approximation of the desired shape as the primary goal, leaving aside the aesthetical aspect of the paneling, which can be seen as having an ornamental quality. In contrast to these common strategies, the project presented in this paper pursues a more holistic approach that tries to integrate aesthetical as well as structural issues by using more complex as well as more performative patterns for the discretization. In the present paper, we present algorithmic strategies that were designed to integrate from the aesthetics of an exposed timber structure, through analysis of structural loading feedbacks to a detailed level of the physical joint system, as part of the fundamental early design decisions. The consequence of the overall negotiations relies fully on their physical integration through computational design. The present paper discusses both the algorithmic techniques and the joint systems through a series of case studies. At the end of the paper we provide an overview to upcoming tasks including the production of a major structure.
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| Year |
2011 |
| Authors |
Ruffo Calderon, Emmanuel; Schimek, Heimo; Wiltsche, Albert. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 11: Integration through Computation |
| Pages |
300-307 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
seeking-performative-beauty |
