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Fractals as Basis for Design and Critique

出版	Portland State University, 2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6wiMzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The design profession is responding to the complex systems represented by architecture and planning by increasingly incorporating the power of computer technology into the design process. This represents a paradigm shift, and requires that designers rise to the challenge of both embracing modern technologies to perform increasingly sophisticated tasks without compromising their objective to create meaningful and environmentally sensitive architecture. This dissertation investigated computer-based fractal tools applied within a traditional architectural charette towards a design process with the potential to address the complex issues architects and planners face today. We developed and presented an algorithm that draws heavily from fractal mathematics and fractal theory. Fractals offer a quantitative and qualitative relation between nature, the built environment and computational mechanics and in this dissertation serve as a bridge between these realms. We investigated how qualitative/quantitative fractal tools may inform an architectural design process both in terms of generative formal solutions as well as a metric for assessing the complexity of designs and historic architecture. The primary research objective was to develop a compelling cybernetic design process and apply it to a real-world and multi-faceted case study project within a formal architectural critique. First we discussed the history of generative and algorithmic design and fractals in architecture. Next we developed a cybernetic design process incorporating a computer-based tool termed DBVgen within a closed loop designer/algorithm back and forth. Finally, we further developed fractal theory towards an appropriate consideration of the significance of fractals in architecture. We then wrapped this new understanding of fractals in architecture to precedent relevant to the case study project. We present and discuss fractals in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright as well as Dean Bryant Vollendorf. We expand on how a theory of fractals used in architecture may continue to be developed and applied as a critical tool in analyzing historic and contemporary architecture as well as a creative framework for designing new architectural solutions to better address the complex world we live in.