Computation-based approaches in design have emerged in the last decades and rapidly became popular among architects and other designers.Design professionals and researchers adopted different terminologies to address t...Computation-based approaches in design have emerged in the last decades and rapidly became popular among architects and other designers.Design professionals and researchers adopted different terminologies to address these approaches.However,some terms are used ambiguously and inconsistently,and different terms are commonly used to express the same concept.This paper discusses computational design(CD)and proposes an improved and sound taxonomy for a set of key CD terms,namely,parametric,generative,and algorithmic design,based on an extensive literature review from which different definitions by various authors were collected,analyzed,and compared.展开更多
基金This work was supported by national funds through Fundacao para a Ciencia-a Tecnologia(FCT)with references UID/CEC/50021/2019 and PTDC/ART-DAQ/31061/2017by the PhD grants under contract of FCT with references SFRH/BD/128628/2017 and SFRH/BD/98658/2013,and by the PhD grant under contract of University of Lisbon(UL),Instituto Superior Tecnico(IST)and the research unit Investigacao-Inovacao em Engenharia Civil para a Sustentabilidade(CERIS).
文摘Computation-based approaches in design have emerged in the last decades and rapidly became popular among architects and other designers.Design professionals and researchers adopted different terminologies to address these approaches.However,some terms are used ambiguously and inconsistently,and different terms are commonly used to express the same concept.This paper discusses computational design(CD)and proposes an improved and sound taxonomy for a set of key CD terms,namely,parametric,generative,and algorithmic design,based on an extensive literature review from which different definitions by various authors were collected,analyzed,and compared.
