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Vitruvian Machine: Eight Exercises in Formal Composition
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Athanassios Economou and Gernot Riether
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Beyond Computer-Aided Design: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)
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Chiang Mai University, Thailand
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caadria2008_63_session6b_522
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Formal composition, Shape grammars, Digital fabrication, Design theory, Vitruvius
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The design machine, an algorithmic structure for design, is considered within current trajectories of architecture discourse to suggest a reinterpretation of the Vitruvian discourse and to produce eight systematic studies in formal composition in architectural design. The work here suggests that Vitruvius' account of the three prerequisites of architecture, namely, utilitas, venustas, firmitas and typically translated as commodity, delight, and firmness, directly allude to contemporary interpretative frameworks of architecture works in terms of functional, geometric, and material characteristics respectively and more significantly to the three modules of the design machine, namely the receptor, language of design, and effector respectively. The resulting diagram for design suggests a complete structure for alternative definitions of design processes all encoded in the eight possible combinatorial subsets of the Vitruvian triad including the empty set. A brief presentation of all eight exercises in formal composition in architectural design is given in the end.
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