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Designing Design: Exploring Digital Workflows in Architecture

Faber, George
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898395

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2015, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
From the very beginning, the digitization of architecture has concerned itself around the speed of representation. The benefits of CAD drafting software principally relate to its suitability for repetitive work, as it facilitated the use of cut, copy and paste. Now with BIM and other parametric software, changes made to a single drawing are instantaneously updated across the entire drawing set. By capitalizing on the inherent relationships that can be created between objects, parametric modeling aims to reduce the amount of time editing design elements and thus fulfilling this paradigm of speed. As a result, these tools enable designers to define the constraints around which an object is created rather than designing the object itself. The result of this thinking leads to the creation of a parametric model that embeds design logics into the construction of the digital model. The focus of this thesis is on imparting an understanding and sensibility to designers of how to use parametric models in a productive way. It attempts to address common misconceptions and known criticisms of this digital workflow. Through the typology of an indoor rock climbing gym, the purpose of this thesis is to better understand the limitations and constraints of parametric modeling tools. This thesis is about the digital workflows necessary for parametric modeling, which in turn argues for the need for parametric thinking.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
51 p.
Architecture
parametric design; digital design; digital workflows; parametric modeling; computational design

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  • Faber, G. (2015). Designing Design: Exploring Digital Workflows in Architecture [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898395

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Faber, George. Designing Design: Exploring Digital Workflows in Architecture. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898395.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Faber, George. "Designing Design: Exploring Digital Workflows in Architecture." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427898395

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This open access ETD is published by University of Cincinnati and OhioLINK.