Form-finding in Digital Architecture – A Case Study of Tower Designs

Form-finding has been facilitated by the rapid development in digital modeling and simulation, leading to unexpected geometries. The paper aims to identify how the digital computation can assist form-finding at the conceptual stage of tower design. A review of published works on form-finding in virtual and real practices was conducted. A framework for form-finding in digital design was developed including methods, the sources of decision making, processes, and techniques. Digital form-finding is investigated in five contemporary tower designs which showed that form-finding method is a process-oriented or (and) outcome-oriented, guided by intuition or (and) rationality, acting dually as generative and modification processes, and using simulation for testing and verification besides other form-finding techniques.

Abstract licence: CC BY

A person counts once a day per paper. We keep no cookie and no address: a reader is a hash that changes every day. Any month under five reads shows no number.