Nonlinear Shaping Architecture Designed with Using Evolutionary Structural Optimization Tools

World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium - WMCAUS

土木建筑工程

Januszkiewicz, Krystyna^1 ; Banachowicz, Marta^1

West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, 50 Piastów Ave., Szczecin

70-311, Poland^1

关键词: Bi-directional;    Building projects;    Digital methods;    Ecological and economic;    Empirical method;    Evolutionary structural optimization;    Original design;    Process-driven;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/245/8/082042/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/245/8/082042

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The paper explores the possibilities of using Structural Optimization Tools (ESO) digital tools in an integrated structural and architectural design in response to the current needs geared towards sustainability, combining ecological and economic efficiency. The first part of the paper defines the Evolutionary Structural Optimization tools, which were developed specifically for engineering purposes using finite element analysis as a framework. The development of ESO has led to several incarnations, which are all briefly discussed (Additive ESO, Bi-directional ESO, Extended ESO). The second part presents result of using these tools in structural and architectural design. Actual building projects which involve optimization as a part of the original design process will be presented (Crematorium in Kakamigahara Gifu, Japan, 2006 SANAA"s Learning Centre, EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland 2008 among others). The conclusion emphasizes that the structural engineering and architectural design mean directing attention to the solutions which are used by Nature, designing works optimally shaped and forming their own environments. Architectural forms never constitute the optimum shape derived through a form-finding process driven only by structural optimization, but rather embody and integrate a multitude of parameters. It might be assumed that there is a similarity between these processes in nature and the presented design methods. Contemporary digital methods make the simulation of such processes possible, and thus enable us to refer back to the empirical methods of previous generations.