Thinking Topologically at Early Stage Parametric Design

摘要: Parametric modelling tools have allowed architects and engineers to explore complex geometries with relative ease at the early stage of design process. Building designs are commonly created by authoring an abstract graph representation that generates building geometry in model space. Once is constructed, exploration can occur adjusting metric sliders either manually or automatically using optimization algorithms combination multi-objective performance criteria. In addition, subjective aspects such as visual social concerns may be included search The authors propose whilst this way working has many benefits if type already known, inflexibility its top-down method generation not well suited conceptual where space large constraints objectives often poorly defined. response, paper suggests possible ways liberating parametric allowing changes topology parameters during a optimisation.