Algorithmic Approach Functions in Digital Architecture and its Effect on Architectural Design Process

Abstract

Since there have not been any precise theoretical frameworks that can offer a comprehensive plan for digital architecture, this study aimed to examine a method in designing formed based on the idea of measurable functions. This method offers a general idea of digital design that consequently ways in digital design along with reasonable understanding of them can be identified. In recent years, the study of the geometry and its innovation has become an important issue in contemporary architecture. Along with the twenty-first century considered as a new era for architectural design, computer softwares have developed the theory of form finding. The plan given to the architect by computers, now helps the architect as the partner of the designer in finding a suitable form and shape and makes the process of architectural design automatic or semi-automatic. Parametric or component form finding means the regarded process by taking advantages of the changeable variables with introducing a set of rules describing the problems and obstacles of the form and shape which creates three dimensional shapes based on the users’ data. The use of large-scale three-dimensional design such as designing the towers not only is an alternative for the desirable geometric design process but also has been replaced for the early stages of the design process. The use of these methods is so pervasive that at the present time the school of algorithm design in all scales from architecture to interior design, urban design and structural issues can be seen and the bigger the project was the excellent ability of the school to explain the complexity of its program would be more certain and absolute. Algorithmic architecture caused a new collective movement; however, in contrast, this development leads to new issues in the field of design and implementation and building structures have been severely affected by this design and entered it in a new phase of structural division. In the algorithmic design process, to avoid rigid geometric principles such as squares and triangles and circles and to avoid duplication of components have been considered and all such forms are considered to be very soft and flexible. This study examined the position and shape of the structures in algorithmic design in architecture and analyzed the functions of the architecture approach in digital design and measured the value of permeability of the structure in algorithmic architecture. The method of the current study was descriptive and in this regard the theoretical framework of the study was first identified by studying the documents of the library and then the proper relation of the two factors was comparatively analyzed.