Rossi M., Buratti G. Computational Morphologies. Design Rules Between Organic Models and Responsive Architecture

Springer, 2018. — 238 p.This book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to tackle the challenges of digital technology, computer-aided design, 3D modeling, prototyping machines and computational design. With contributions from leading experts in the field of industrial design and cultural heritage, it is split into three parts. The first part explores basic rules of design, design models and shape grammar, including the management of complex forms, and proves that innovative concepts may be derived from organic models using generative design. The second part then investigates responsive design, describing how to manage the changing morphologies of buildings through pre-programmed mechanisms of real-time response and feedback embedded in inhabitable spaces. Lastly, the third part focuses on digital heritage and its capability to increase the interaction and manipulation of object and concepts, ranging from augmented reality to modeling generative tools. The book gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the eCAADe (Education and Research in Computer-Aided Architectural Design in Europe) Regional International Symposium, held in Milan, Italy, in 2015.Architectural Fabrication: Towards Eco-Digital Design to Build Process in Architecture
Part I Form and Code
On Rules and Roots: The Organic Model in Design
Shapes of Design: Traditional Geometry, Symmetry and Representation
Pattern Spaces: A Rule-Based Approach to Architectural Design
Algorithmic Modelling of Triply Periodic Minimal Surface
Represented Models and Typological Algorithms: The Role of Parametric Models for the Design of Product
Project Rule-Checking for Enhancing Workers Safety in Preserving Heritage Building
Part II Design and Responsivity
Architectural Templates: A Hands-On Approach to Responsive Morphologies
Architecture After the Digital Turn: Digital Fabrication Beyond the Computational Thought
Encoding Gesture-Oriented Human Behaviour for the Development and Control of an Adaptive Building Skin
Interaction and Forming, How Industrial Design Is Changing
Walkacross: Space–Motion Metric for Responsive Architecture
The Management of Parameters for the Design of Responsive Map
Part III Digital Applications and Cultural Heritage
3D Modeling of an Archeological Area: The Imperial Fora in Rome
Augmented Visualization: New Technologies for Communicating Architecture
The Video Animation: An Innovative Way to Communicate
Research of Nonlinear Architecture Morphology Based on Psychology Rules and Mathematical Orders
Generating the Pantheon’s Dome: Cultural Paradigms and Shape Grammars