Embedding methods for massing and detail design in computer generated design of skyscrapers

This thesis proposes a new digital system to construct the massing and details of skyscrapers. It extracts underlying rules and design conventions from significant projects in contemporary skyscraper design practice. These rules and conventions are translated into digital data and embedded in a system. The thesis demonstrates how to use this system to reconstruct original designs as well as to generate new ones by means of transformation rules. It takes examples from the built skyscraper projects of Cesar Pelli and Associates as well as Norman Foster and Partners, and embeds their conventions and components to illustrate an implementation of such a system. In contemporary skyscraper design, sophisticated computer models are constructed in advanced engineering systems for the use of engineering analysis, but they contribute very little to the conceptual design of skyscrapers.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2006

Author dc:creator

• Chen, Shouheng, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Takehiko Nagakura.

• Architecture.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35501

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/35501