Book // Mathematics: From the Ideal to the Uncertain

November 21, 2015 by bg-martin

“ While mathematics in architecture has historically referenced notions of order, proportion, and ideal form, the discipline of mathematics itself has shifted to encompass Uncertainty, Incompleteness, Relativity, and Chaos, moving towards a situation in which truth itself is elusive. Mathematics: From the Ideal to the Uncertain by Cornell AAP (Editor) This adjustment emerged in part from an engagement with real phenomena, in which natural systems were shown to behave non-linearly and unpredictably. In Architecture, while computational developments enabling dynamic and […]

Categories: Bookcase • Tags: architecture, books, Cornell AAP, mathematics

Oxymoron | Luca Pedrielli

October 26, 2015 by bg-martin

Oxymoron by Luca Pedrielli skyscraper project in Shenzhen, China | Bologna, Italy Oximoron is a research thesis in the field of computational aesthetics through the application of topology optimization strategies for a skyscraper design in Shenzhen (China); the figure of speech that combines contradictory terms better describes the thesis subject: the erosion, a sort of creative destruction, the construction of space through matter subtraction. The whole design process, from ideation to engineering, orbits around the Soft Kill Option (SKO), a […]

Categories: Academia, Design Research, Digital • Tags: architecture, design research, digital, mathematics, phD, soft kill option, topology, tower