Persistent Modelling
Extending the Role of Architectural Representation
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 2012
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-0-415-59406-6 (ISBN)
Description
With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates upon implications of Persistent Modelling for architectural practice, reconsidering the relationship between architectural representation and architectural artefact particularly in the fields of responsive and adaptive architectures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
90 s/w Abbildungen
90 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-59406-6 (9780415594066)
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Person
Phil Ayres is Assistant Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (RASA), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Content
Introduction: Persistent Modelling - Reconsidering Relations Part 1: Modelling Material 1. The Historical Context of Contemporary Architectural Representation 2. The Persistence of Faith in the Intangible Model 3. Intention and the User 4. A Communications Primer Revised 5. A Suggested Model of A-Functional Architecture 6. Modelling Modelling - Trajectories in Developing Instrumental Design Processes 7. Design Issues of Time-based Phenomena and the Notion of a Persistent Model: A Parametric Exploration of Acoustic Performance 8. Defining Adequate Models for Adaptive Architecture 9. The Death of Determinism Part 2: Material Modelling 10. The Fall 11. Persisting with Material: Engaging Material Behaviour Within the Digital Environment 12. The Active Model: A Calibration of Material Intent 13. Beneficial Change: The Case for Robotics in Architecture 14. The Building and its Double: Entropic Modeling in the Hylozoic Soil Series 15. Persistent Approaches to Designing Functionally Graded Materials