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Various classifications for architectural form finding process

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Civil and Architectural Engineering

Abstract

In the age of digital revolution, architects have to keep pace with latest advances in technology and computing, which in turn affected architectural design and fabrication. In architectural form finding process, some schools of thought encourage personal inspiration, intuition of the architect and his sense of beauty, while others depend on specific design approaches based on rules and fulfillment of design requirements in generating architectural form. This paper presents a review on various form finding philosophies that have been existed in architectural design over the past century till now. In addition, a taxonomy for digitally generated forms is presented herein into two categories. Through investigating these different approaches of form finding process, some of them focus only on the qualitative and aesthetic aspects of the architectural form and didn't take into consider building performances such as functional, environmental, structural or acoustic, while others focus on the performative aspects. Moreover, dealing with the current complex geometries and advanced technologies made it important to depend on an Integrated design: a Generative performative design Approach that achieves balance and takes into consider both aesthetic aspects as well as the performative considerations of the building such as functional, environmental, structural or economic, in order to find the optimal solution at early stages of the form finding process.

DOI

10.21608/eijest.2020.47216.1022

Keywords

Form Finding, Digital morphogenesis, Generative design, Performance-based design, Integrated design

Authors

First Name

Hussein

Last Name

Elshanwany

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Affiliation

Department of architecture, Faculty of engineering, Zagazig university, Zagazig, Egypt

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hshanawany1@gmail.com

City

cairo

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First Name

Zeyad

Last Name

El-sayad

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Affiliation

Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

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zelsayad1@hotmail.com

City

Alexandria

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First Name

hadeer

Last Name

nasser

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-

Affiliation

Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, zagazig, Egypt

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archadeer276@gmail.com

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zagazig

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Volume

32

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Civil and Architectural Engineering

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21315

Issue Date

2020-12-01

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2020-10-21

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2020-12-01

Page Start

32

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42

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1687-8493

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2682-3640

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https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/article_144055.html

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1,348

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The Egyptian International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Technology

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https://eijest.journals.ekb.eg/

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Various classifications for architectural form finding process

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Created At

23 Jan 2023