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Emergent Explorations: Analog and Digital Scripting

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

This book documents an exploration of emergent and linear modes of defining space, form, and structure. The thesis highlights a dialog between analog and digital modeling techniques, in concept and project development. It identifies that analog modeling techniques, coupled with judgment, can be used to develop complex forms. The thesis project employs critical judgment and the textile techniques of crochet as a vehicle generate form. Crochet lends itself to this investigation because it is a serial process of fabrication that allows for the introduction of specific non-linear modifications. The resulting emergent forms produced by this mode of working can be precisely described by digital modeling techniques. These analog crochet models are translated into the digital through the employment of advanced digital modeling tools. This translation enables the visualization, development, testing, and execution of an architectural space, form, and structure.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Architecture
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Architecture
Department dc:contributor.department
Architecture
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2011

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Worden, Alexander
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Gartner, Howard Scott
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Galloway, William U.
  • Green, William R.

Subjects

dc:subject × 5

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-05102011-225915
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/32543

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citation

Worden, Alexander. Emergent Explorations: Analog and Digital Scripting. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32543