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Apr 27, 20 freeform shapes and structures with a high geometric complexity play an increasingly important role in contemporary architecture. This is a survey paper on architectural geometry as a geometric discipline, together with references to real projects. Starting with points and lines, the authors combine both simple diagrams and complex geometric concepts to explain how many modern architects achieve form in a dynamic and sometimes optimized manner. Rationalization recomputes the geometry by minimally deviating from the original design and meeting requirements on panel types, smoothness of the skin, aesthetics of panel layout and 198 helmut pottmann architectural geometry and fabricationaware design substructure, cost of production and other aspects.
We here survey the main directions which have been pursued, we show real projects where geometric considerations have played a role, and we outline open problems which we think are significant for the future development of both theory and practice of architectural geometry. A key problem is the approximation of the design surface by a union of patch. Next years aag conference will take place in paris workshops. Helmut pottmann is a professor of applied mathematics at king abdullah university of. Hexagons and threevalent meshes in general play an increasingly important role in architecture jiang et al. Helmut pottmann a,b, michael eigensatz c, amir vaxman b, johannes wallner d. While digital models are easily created, the actual fabrication and construction remains a challenge.
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Architectural geometry and fabricationaware design. Bentley institute press 2007, 724 pages, 2200 figures in color, isbn 9781934493045. Freeform shapes and structures with a high geometric complexity play an increasingly important role in contemporary architecture. Pottmann will provide an overview of recent progress in the emerging field of architectural geometry, discuss its relation to contemporary research in. During the architectural journey through geometry, topics typically reserved for a mathematically welltrained audience are addressed in an easily understandable way. Advances in architectural geometry 2018 pdf aag 2018 conference gothenburg, sweden architecture is the physical realization of geometry, and even today architecture poses aesthetic and practical problems for architects, engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists to overcome using traditional and new mathematical methods. Geometry of multilayer freeform structures for architecture. View or download all content the institution has subscribed to.
These include central concepts on freeform curves and surfaces, differential geometry, kinematic geometry, mesh processing, digital reconstruction, and optimization of shapes. Architectural geometry is an innovative text that provides a path to constructive geometry in the digital era that transcends a specific application toward architecture. Advances in architectural geometry 2014, springer, 2014. Advances in architectural geometry 2018 mit architecture. Around 2005 it became apparent in the geometry processing community that freeform architecture contains many problems of a geometric nature to be solved, and many opportunities for optimization which however require geometric understanding. Architectural geometry institute of discrete mathematics and. Helmut pottmann, andreas asperl, michael hofer, axel kilian. Closestfit, compressiononly solutions for free form shells. Buy bentley university textbooks, professional reference. In this paper we analyze, discuss, and propose how recent research findings in architectural geometry enable construction aware design, an integrated approach that takes into account construction and manufacturing already during the earliest stages of design without limiting the designers expressiveness. Architectural geometry helmut pottmann, andreas asperl. Pottmann will provide an overview of recent progress in the emerging field of architectural geometry, discuss its relation to contemporary research in geometry and computer graphics, and illustrate the shift of mathematical research into architectural practice.