Specification of an Operator for the Design of Architectural Forms: “Pleating”
During the creative phase, the architect introduces hypotheses and validates them by trying out various adjustments during the process of conception. The use of existing CAD tools during the conception phase is not compatible with the iterative aspect of this process. So the challenge is to define a model that takes into account the entire creative process in a trial and error framework during the conceptual phase. In this article we will define the “pleating” operator.
A Study for Parametric Morpho-Semantic Operators to Assist Architectural Conception at the Drafting Stage
In this paper, we make the assumption that a shape modelling process can rely on the application of a set of morpho-semantic operators to initial shapes. In this paper, we refer to several researches which have attempted to identify such operators. We will attempt to validate this concept through the analysis of some ''innovative" buildings. Thus, in different projects of contemporary architects, we can find the trace of some transformations (e.g. "twist", "merge", "overlay", etc.) recorded in the final geometry. These transformations have a symbolic representation. A design system based on the combination of these operators could enable the designer to quickly explore a great number of spatial solutions
Architectures comparées. Essai sur la dynamique des formes
"Toute forme a ete imaginee avant d'etre construite". Cette formule classique, qui met en relief l'un des traits essentiels de la pratique architecturale, souleve plusieurs questions: D'ou viennent les images-meres du projet? Sont-elles encore identifiables une fois construites? Existe-t-il des procedes reguliers dans l'imagination des formes architecturales? Cette enquete tente de resoudre ces problemes par la reconnaissance de schemes dynamiques de l'imagination. Si le processus de conception architecturale altere les images-meres au points que certains ont pu identifier une "non figurativite" de l'architecture, les schemes dynamiques sont perceptibles de la premiere esquisse a l'edifice construit. La demonstration, au croisement de l'anthropologie des representations et de l'architecturologie, adopte le principe d'une analyse comparee. Etayee par une selection d'edifices couvrant toute l'extension historique et geographique, elle offre tout a la fois une lecture coherente des premiers moments du projet architectural et une reflexion de portee generale sur l'imagination des formes