http://www.gmelin.li/PhD 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. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:39:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.gmelin.li/PhD/2011/11/28/b-processor-ecaade-2011-ljubljana/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Complex Geometry in Architecture» Blog Archive » B-processor ... | Parametric Architecture and Design | Scoop.it Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:39:25 +0000 http://www.gmelin.li/PhD/?p=426#comment-13 [...] Complex Geometry in Architecture» Blog Archive » B-processor ... Ambitious architectural design often relies on computational technologies these days. Parametric design and freeform surface modeling tools allow the creation of complex geometries that challenge construction methods. Source: www.gmelin.li [...] [...] Complex Geometry in Architecture» Blog Archive » B-processor … Ambitious architectural design often relies on computational technologies these days. Parametric design and freeform surface modeling tools allow the creation of complex geometries that challenge construction methods. Source: http://www.gmelin.li [...]

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