Complex Geometry in Architecture

PhD student Sebastian Gmelin, Prof. Kristian Agger, Aarhus School of Architecture – Double curved surfaces became common practice in architectural design. While their digital creation is well supported through a wide range of computer software, crafting them remains a specialist task – expensive and laborious. Building information modeling (BIM) lifts computer drawings from being pure geometrical descriptions to a representation of real building objects. It will be researched to use the additional information supplied to create complex geometry within a certain range of parameters, given by a specific construction material or structural system. The result will not only be a geometrical shape but also a specific construction method or even a set of interacting forces. B-processor is an open-source BIM software, currently being developed by the Aarhus School of Architecture (Prof. Kristian Agger) and the Alexandra Institute (Michael Lassen). It creates a platform to develop modeling tools as described above and will form the base for the PhD thesis.