Search results for "Parametric design"
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Exemple du projet Arena Naterre
2014
L’article traite de façon technique le travail réalisé sur le projet Arena Nanterre (projet de Christian de Portzamparc) à Paris dans le cadre d’une mission de BIM (Building Information Model). Notre engagement était d’aider tous les intervenants à concevoir et construire autrement le bâtiment grâce à la maquette numérique. Celle-ci a évolué et a été mise à jour tout au long des études pour permettre, d’un côté, un partage réel et instantané des informations et, de l’autre, une optimisation du projet en termes techniques, économiques ou encore de gestion. L’organisation mise en place a permis de créer une plateforme collaborative dans laquelle nous étions en charge de la gestion BIM de tout…
Split-Way CVTs: Parametric Analysis and Design
The thesis provides a parametric analytical method for the analysis and design of power-split continuously variable transmissions, which represent the state of the art for heavy-duty vehicles and hybrid electric cars. The functioning of any driveline is described by mean of a simple set of kinematic parameters, regardless of the constructive scheme. The calculation of the control torques remains straightforward even when both inertial effects and mechanical losses are taken into account. A simple design procedure is described and generalized in order to address any order of driveline, including multimode transmissions. The final layout is generated additively, without the need to analyze hu…
The Cuneiform Brick
2022
The study presents some results of an experimental research on brick wall cladding, proposing methodological approaches for the creation of new geometric-compositional configurations. Citing innovative case studies of historical and contemporary architecture, the research has allowed to determine a different geometric shape of the brick, which takes its cue from the traditional wedge-shaped brick in majolica brick, widespread in Sicily since the sixteenth century for the realization of cusps and domes. Through the definition of procedural parametric algorithms for the analysis and geometric-spatial control, it is described the path that led to the digital prototype of a modular component of…
AHBIM for Wooden Built Heritage Conservation
2019
The chapter investigates the potential offered by the Building Information Modeling for the conservation of the wooden architectural heritage. Based on the architectural survey, the BIM modeling of a South Tyrolean farm was carried out, with particular attention to the aspects related to its management and maintenance. Inside the database connected to the model, information about the building has been included, which can also be used on site through the use of mobile devices. The sharing of such information within a single platform avoids risks connected to the failure or incorrect transmission of data, allowing the optimization of the management, maintenance and conservation of the archite…
Refitting of an eco-friendly sailing yacht: numerical prediction and experimental validation
2016
A 4.60 m sailing yacht, made with a flax fiber composite and wood, has been refitted with the aim of hull weight reduction and performance improvement during regattas. The first objective was obtained with a lightening of internal hull reinforcements while the second one with a reduction of the maximum beam, in order to minimize the longitudinal moment of inertia. The refitting was first simulated via CAD-FEM interaction to establish the feasibility of the procedure and to verify the structural integrity. The resulting hull was then instrumented with strain gauges and tested under typical rigging and sailing conditions. Results obtained by the numerical modeling and measured from experiment…
Il “Generative Design” nel progetto dell’involucro architettonico: Un modello applicativo
2008
Parametric Experiments in Architecture : a Connection Joint Design for Sustainable Structures in Bamboo
2023
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of bamboo in the building industry. It systematically demonstrates bamboo’s utility in terms of its properties, describing the material properties of typical industrial bamboo products, and discussing their performance evaluation and optimization as building components and in the creation of building envelopes. The book presents the recent developments regarding the innovative ways to design and represent architecture through parametric survey tools, and describes the experimental geometrical-generative design process of a connection joint for free-form lightweight structures employing beams made of bamboo culms. It examines algorithmic-g…
Parametric Design of Sailing Hull Shapes
2006
The author presents an original algorithm aimed at automatically generating the hull shape of a sailing yacht starting from an initial set of parameters. The procedure consists of two steps. First one keel line and a Designed Water Line (DWL in the following) are faired according to a set of parameters, say length of water line, canoe body draft, stem angle and some adimensional coefficients. This information is then used to fair the hull surface, which must in turn fulfil more prerequisites (parameters like displaty cement, floatation area and related coefficients). The hull is defined by means of a B-spline surface, the fairing of which is ensured by allowing for all the imposed objective…
Architects as tool consumers: discovering trends in software and programming languages for Architecture with Google Trends
2019
Architect professional figure and skills have undergone innumerable evolutions throughout human history, and although the architect's task is always substantially to design buildings and spaces, the use of digital tools has undoubtedly marked the greatest change in architectural design since the Renaissance, if not since the time of Vitruvius (Sacchi 2018). However, when we talk about the relationship between architecture and digital tools, we immediately think about projects of some contemporary architects and researches of some important academics come to mind. Digital tools are now everywhere within the fragmented world of architecture: from multinationals firm with offices in the major …
A simple method for the design of hybrid electric power-split cvts: A case study
2018
A brief parametric method for the preliminary design of hybrid electric Power-Split CVTs is performed. The desired torque-speed characteristic is obtained, and general control and optimization criteria are introduced in order to minimize the size of the required electric machines. The optimization is performed by mean of scheme-independent functional parameters, while a specific constructive design is proposed only later, along with possible full electric operations.