Architectural Design Optimisation in Reticulated Free-Form Canopies

Application of Free Form Deformation Techniques in Evolutionary Design Optimisation

1. Abstract In the past decades evolutionary algorithms have been successfully applied to various design optimisation problems. It has been shown that the representation of the problem is crucial for a high performance of the method. One important aspect is the trade-off between the demands for a high geometric variability in shape generation and a minimum number of optimisation parameters. In ...

Data Movement Optimisation in Point-Free Form

Programs written in point-free form express computation purely in terms of functions. Such programs are especially amenable to local transformation. In this paper, we describe a process for optimising the transport of data through point-free programs. This process systematically applies local transformations to achieve effective global optimisation. We describe the strategies we employ to ensur...

Interoperability-based Optimisation of Architectural Design

Modelling Form and Function in Architectural Design

Form, function and the relationship between the two are notions that have served a crucial role in design science. Within architectural design, key aspects of the anticipated function of buildings, or of spatial environments in general, are supposed to be determined by their structural form, i.e., their shape, layout, or connectivity. Whereas the philosophy of form and function is a well-resear...

Free-Form Mirror Design

A considerable issue in designing catadioptric imaging systems is what shape the component mirrors should be formed. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for a catadioptric imaging system that satisfies the desired projection using a free-form mirror. A free-form mirror expressed as an assembly of gradients is a flexible surface representation that can form various shapes including non-smo...