Parametric architecture

Abstract

Parametric architecture

Kravchenko G., Manoilenko A., Litovka V.

Incoming article date: 07.06.2018

The article considers the aspects of parametric modeling, his key features, and the question of the relevance of this direction in the design of unique buildings and structures. Are presented surfaces that have not yet acquired the mass character of design and erection, or have not been built anywhere else, but have a high potential to become in the future a great adornment of urban development. In construction, a very limited number of thin-walled structures are used: cylindrical, spherical, shallow transfer shells, conical, shells of rotation. This is only a small fraction of the existing variety of geometric shapes developed by geometers, so the parametric architecture has a great potential for application. The finite element method allows modeling objects of a parametric architecture, approximating buildings and structures with rod, plate and shell elements. The parametric architecture expands the scope of the finite element method and allows the creation of unique high-altitude and long-span buildings and structures. However, the finite element library of the software complex requires modernization and expansion to design unique surfaces of the parametric architecture.

Keywords: parametric architecture, parametric modeling and design, surface, shell, shape, curvature