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Paper: sigradi2009_957
| Paper title: | From texture to volume: an investigation in quasi-crystalline systems |
| Authors: | Baerlecken, Daniel Michael; Gernot Riether |
| Summary: | The relation between texture, pattern and massing is a fundamental question in architecture. Classical architecture, as Leon Battista Alberti states in “De re aedificatoria” (Book VI, Chapter 2), is developed through massing and structure first; texture is added afterwards to give the bold massing and structure beauty. Only the ornamentation adds pulcritudo to the raw structure and massing. Rather than starting with a volume and applying texture afterwards, the Digital Girih project started with textural operations that informed the overall volume later. The stereometric, top-down methodology is questioned through the bottom-up methodology of the Girih project. Girih lines of traditional Islamic patterns were used as a starting point. The aspect of 3-dimensionality was developed analogue as well as digital, using the deformability of different materials at various scales and digital construction techniques as parameters. The flexibility within the Girih rules allowed the system to adapt to different tasks and situations and to react to different conditions between 2- and 3- dimensionality. The project in that way explored a bottom-up process of form generation. This paper will describe the process of the project and explain the necessity of digital tools, such as Grasshopper and Rhino, and fabrication tools, such as laser cutter and CNC fabrication technology, that were essential for this process. |
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| Year of publication: | 2009 |
| Keywords: | Generative Design; Parametric Design; Tessellation; Form Finding; Scripting |
| Series: | CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/sigradi2009_957.content.pdf |
| Citation: | Baerlecken, Daniel Michael; Gernot Riether (2009). From texture to volume: an investigation in quasi-crystalline systems . SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16-18, 2009, http://itc.scix.net/paper/sigradi2009_957 |
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