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Revisiting Parquet Deformations from a computational perspective: A novel method for design and analysis

Published:2017-10-13 Issue:4 Volume:15 Page:250-267
ISSN:1478-0771
Container-title:International Journal of Architectural Computing
language:en
Short-container-title:International Journal of Architectural Computing

Author:

Yazar Tuğrul¹

Affiliation:

1. Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

Parquet Deformation is an architectural studio exercise introduced by William Huff in 1960s. It aims to improve students’ reasoning of spatiotemporal variation by utilizing sequential shapeshifting of patterns. This article examines the outcomes of this educational research from a perspective of design computing with a purpose to remark its pedagogical significance. A multilayered reading about the exercise will reveal its historical, theoretical, and artistic backgrounds. Then the common structural elements and different construction approaches are explained along with a novel design and analysis method. The proposed method embeds variations of two-dimensional pattern deformations on a third dimension. It enables various analyses such as the measurement of regularity and locating the attractor points. This study is expected to exemplify how computational thinking and new digital tools change the way designers would approach to such systematic compositions.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Computer Science Applications,Building and Construction

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1478077117734660

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