Digitale Vision und gebaute Wirklichkeit - Über das Bauen von geometrisch anspruchsvollen Gebäudehüllen

Computerized vision and built reality — About the designing of complex building shapes.

For the past century, architects have been using cylinders, cones, rotational and ruled surfaces for their designs. Meanwhile computers and corresponding software are necessary for throughout the architectural design and planning of the construction industry. Whether it is the draft of drawings or the design of new complex building shapes, working with digital content has become the standard for the industry. There is a continuous tendency to give up linear forms with easily manageable numbers of the same elements. Free-form structures originated by the creativity of architects beginning in the last decade of the previous millennium have developed to symbols of elegance, grace, progress, and innovation. The construction of arbitrarily shaped building envelopes necessitates the computerized design and calculation of large numbers of unique elements.
This iconic or landmark architecture is commonly used to emphasize the brands of enterprises. To transfer the architectural concept into built reality, an intense collaboration of geometrical and structural engineers combined with production and material management experience is necessary to standardize complexity and hence increase the feasibility of the design.