Computational making

Knight, Terry; Vardouli, Theodora

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2015.09.003

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“…Computational Making, a new area of inquiry, seeks to understand the relationship between abstract computation and embodied making. 21,22 Regionalism + Computation Critical regionalism raises questions about "modernity, tradition, cultural identity, and place." [22][23][24] Tzonis and Lefaivre 23 theorized critical regionalism to counter the reduction of architecture to scenography and decoration.…”

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Computational regionalism: De-familiarization of tectonics in the wire-bending craft

Noel

2022

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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Computer-based design and fabrication systems in architecture contain modes of operation and preferences that often constrain tectonic possibilities in design and construction. These predispositions neglect architecture’s cultural and material dimensions, resulting in universalizing tectonics that erase nuances of place, culture, and expression in design. How may we celebrate local tectonic languages while also revisiting them through computer-based systems in architecture? The project examined here highlights novel possibilities for cultural expression and craftsmanship through computational design methods, retaining the expressive potential of a local craft while de-familiarizing its cultural context. I analyze how shape grammars and digital fabrication methods deployed in design, de-familiarizes the craft of wire-bending in costuming in the Trinidad Carnival. I present and apply new rules for the craft’s computational description based on material tests and an architectural application to expand discourses on critical regionalism. I adopt Tabbarah’s term “computational regionalism” to describe this process and elaborate it as a five-step sequence. Computational regionalism employs computational methods to translate local craft knowledge and tectonic languages into new interpretations and poetics of construction. Its process of creative de-familiarization raises critical questions about the local and the universal.

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“…Computational Making, a new area of inquiry, seeks to understand the relationship between abstract computation and embodied making. 21,22…”

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Computational regionalism: De-familiarization of tectonics in the wire-bending craft

Noel

2022

International Journal of Architectural Computing

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“…Digital materiality (Gramazio and Kohler, 2008) was incorporated in the architectural realm with specific focus on the close coupling between the digital and the material; an approach that addresses the combined understanding of structure, material and form in an experimental framework of form generation and fabrication (Menges, 2016;Oxman, 2012). "Computational making" was also introduced as a catalyst for exploring and augmenting the potential of "making" in computation and creative design exploration activities (Knight and Vardouli, 2015).…”

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A material-based computation framework for parametric design education

Abdelmohsen

Massoud

2021

OHI

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PurposeMaterial-based computation has been recently introduced in architectural education, where parameters and rules related to materials are integrated into algorithmic thinking. The authors aim to identify affordances of material-based computation in terms of supporting the understanding of parametric design, informing the process of parametric form finding in an educational setup and augmenting student learning outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThe authors propose a material-informed holistic systems design framework for parametric form finding. The authors develop a pedagogical approach that employs material-based computation focusing on the interplay between the physical and the digital in a parametrically driven façade design exercise. The approach comprises two phases: (1) enabling physical exploration with different materials to arrive at the design logic of a panel prototype and (2) deducing embedded and controlled parameters, based on the interplay of materials and deriving strategies for pattern propagation of the panel on a façade composition using variation and complexity.FindingsThe results confirmed the initial hypothesis, where the more explicit the material exploration and identification of physical rules and relations, the more nuanced the parametrically driven process, where students expressed a clear goal oriented generative logic and utilized parametric design to inform form finding as a bottom-up approach.Originality/valueMost precedent approaches developed to teach parametric design concepts in architectural education have focused on universal strategies that often result in fixating students on following standard blindly followed scripts and procedures, thus defying the purpose of a bottom-up form finding framework. The approach expands the pedagogical strategies employed to address parametric design as a form finding process.

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