Persistent Modelling: Extending the Role of Architectural Representation

ISBN-13: 9780415594073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Phil Ayres

Opis

This book reconsiders the relationship between architectural representation and architectural artefact particularly in the fields of responsive and adaptive architectures. The notion of the Persistent Model reconfigures this predominantly linear relationship into one that is circular, such that the ideal (representation) is tempered by the actual (built) to become both a record and the ground for iteration and transformation. The book: defines, frames and grounds the notion of the persistent model and the activity of persistent modelling identifies and reports upon significant shifts in practice where relationships between representation and artefact are emerging speculates upon further implications of Persistent Modelling for architecturalpractice. Featuring contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this is essential reading for anyone considering new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture.

Spis treści

Introduction: Persistent Modelling – Reconsidering Relations  Part 1: Modelling Material  1. The Historical Context of Contemporary Architectural Representation  2. The Persistence of Faith in the Intangible Model  3. Intention and the User  4. A Communications Primer Revised  5. A Suggested Model of A-Functional Architecture  6. Modelling Modelling – Trajectories in Developing Instrumental Design Processes  7. Design Issues of Time-based Phenomena and the Notion of a Persistent Model: A Parametric Exploration of Acoustic Performance  8. Defining Adequate Models for Adaptive Architecture  9. The Death of Determinism  Part 2: Material Modelling  10. The Fall  11. Persisting with Material: Engaging Material Behaviour Within the Digital Environment  12. The Active Model: A Calibration of Material Intent  13. Beneficial Change: The Case for Robotics in Architecture  14. The Building and its Double: Entropic Modeling in the Hylozoic Soil Series  15. Persistent Approaches to Designing Functionally Graded Materials

O autorze

Phil Ayres is Assistant Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (RASA), Copenhagen, Denmark.