Digital-Computational Design in Architecture and Urban Design
Keywords:
Computational-Digital Design, Computer-aided Architectural Design (CAAD), Post-Folding, Post-Guggenheim, Research by DesignAbstract
The Digital-computational design, considered as an evolution of the concept of computer-aided design (CAD), has witnessed remarkable development since its emergence in the 1960s. This development has improved the ability to explore complex design concepts and enhanced accuracy and creative freedom. Over time, digital-computational design has come to include multiple fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and mathematics, which has led to the application of its methods to architectural and urban design. The integration of digital design tools into architecture and urban design is the result of a long development process. The research here attempted to study the concepts of digital and computational in architecture and urban design, with an attempt to resolve the overlap between these two concepts and the concepts associated with them and their connection with architecture and urban design, with a study of the transformation in architectural theory towards digital-computational design and an attempt to trace the emergence of the concept historically by analyzing the stages in terms of the tool, thought and accompanying product by following an analytical methodology and critical review of various sources and a case study for good practice in Digital -Computational Architecture. The research concludes that we
can distinguish two approaches to using the computer in architecture and urban design: first, those that use the computer as a tool to implement a certain idea is a digital technology, while second, those that use the computer to use its computational capabilities through the activities of deduction, induction, and abstraction to form a certain idea is a digital-computational process. Therefore, it is necessary to use the term digital-computational design and digital-computational architecture to indicate the future approach to architecture and urban design, which means using the computer and its computational capabilities as essential tools in the design process.
