Concurrent Geometric, Structural and Environmental Design: Louvre Abu Dhabi

Abstract

International audienceno abstrac

Smart processes for smart buildings: ‘sustainable processes’, ‘recyclable processes’ and ‘building seeds’ in parametric design

“…With regard to algorithmic design, parametric design can replace the singularity of design solutions in algorithmic design with a multiplicity of a wide range of automated and contextualised design instances for a much wider design space (Chaszar & Joyce, 2016;Hudson, 2010). Parametric design is becoming the cornerstone in performative modelling (Oxman, 2006), and hence it has proven a high level of efficiency in supporting sustainability (Eltaweel & Yuehong, 2017;Imbert et al, 2012). The explicit nature in parametric design tools can offer a unique opportunity for external involvement within collaborative environments (Jabi et al, 2017).…”

“…New design tools, techniques and methodologies are being developed that are shifting the design processes from the individual to collaborative (Fok & Picon, 2016;Kocaturk, 2013;Kocatürk & Medjdoub, 2011), from disciplinary to interdisciplinary (Bhooshan, 2016;Hesselgren & Medjdoub, 2010;Sprecher & Ahrens, 2016), and from implicit to explicit (J. E. Harding & Shepherd, 2017;Jabi, Soe, Theobald, Aish, & Lannon, 2017;Oxman, 2006). The tools are becoming more adaptable (Burry, 2013), the processes are becoming more iterative and flexible (Imbert et al, 2012;Tamke & Thomsen, 2018;Wortmann & Tunçer, 2017), and the traditional form-based models are being abandoned in favour of data-rich and performative models (May, 2018;Mueller, 2011;Tamke, Nicholas, & Zwierzycki, 2018;Thomsen, Tamke, Gengnagel, Faircloth, & Scheurer, 2015). This rapidly changing situation in the architectural domain coincides with an increase in natural disasters (Snell, 2018), growing limitations of global resources (Mueller, 2011), climate change (Kwok, Kwok, Grondzik, Kwok, & Grondzik, 2018), and population growth (Carlile, 2014).…”

“…The potential of parametric design in supporting energy-efficient and hence sustainable design solutions is well covered in the literature (Anton & Tănase, 2016;Eltaweel & Yuehong, 2017;Ercan & Elias-Ozkan, 2015;Imbert et al, 2012;Turrin et al, 2011). However, some valuable aspects are still overlooked.…”

Surveying design spaces with performance maps: A multivariate visualization method for parametric design and architectural design optimization

“…For example, the dome of the Louvre Abu Dhabi was optimized both in terms of its structural and daylighting performance. 5 When performance criteria are added to a design space as extra dimensions, the literature often describes the result as a fitness landscape. This article focuses on visualizing fitness landscapes with only one performance criterion.…”

Structural glass envelopes – Implementation of environmental studies into viscoelastic analysis

“…While this is useful in itself and qualitative selection of design options remains a fundamental part of the process, there is a potential for added value to be introduced if a multi-parameter study is carried out. A viable way to tackle this is to use a common collaboration platform where the effect of each design change can be readily interrogated and its effects understood at early stages of the process (Imbert, et al, 2012).…”