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Exploring Emergent Designs: Creating Simple Animate and Evolutionary Form Using Existing SoftwareKhaled Nassar Dept of Construction and Architectural Engineering, The American University in Cairo Digital media has revolutionized the creation and manipulation of spatial form in the realm of architecture. Specifically, digital free-form space is now becoming easier to generate as the use of the computer has increased in academia as well as in professional practice. Since computers today are becoming ubiquitous and used in various stages of the design process, the kinds of architecture form, structure, and planning are also becoming increasingly complex. Many free from architectural designs that exist today are either inspired by or fully generated by computers. As such present day digital architecture emphasizes dynamic surface, with its three-dimensional curves, and the interior and exterior continuity of the architectural and urban spaces. This workshop Tutorial Session will demonstrate how to explore emergent designs using a popular commercial CAD package 3D Studio Max. Unlike the traditional and most widely application of this tool as a rendering package, we will show 3D Studio can be used to create forms that were not possible before and demonstrate that architectural geometry can be used as a form giver. Furthermore, simple evolutionary forms are created using the 3D Max scripting language. The aim of the tutorial is to show how geometrical operations can be used to mimic the traditional design process and that the final product is emergent, i.e. arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. |
