Principles of the synthesis of form and architectural design analysis / Os principios da sintese da forma e a analise de projetos arquitetonicos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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ln the first years of the 1960 s, architectural design was influenced by scientific applications, dealing with a large amount of information to achieve solutions of complex problems. lmpacted by the Philosophy of Science, Systems Theory and Operational Research, many designers and engineers developed analysis, synthesis and evaluation methods to support the design processo At the same time, Christopher Alexander s book "Notes on the synthesis of form" had a special interest and influence in the design methods movement. ln his work, Alexander presented principles to guide architectural design and a conceptual framework to organize the variables of complex problems, called "program". Since the publication of the "Notes on the synthesis of form" many architectural programming methods have been developed under these principles. Along with the principles of the synthesis of form and the definitions of form, context, ensemble and fitness, the design process information is more precisely defined. Architectural programming presents the conceptual framework to organize this information. The present research applied the synthesis of form concepts and architectural programming methods to the analysis of three case studies with the goal of adopting a practical mean to the architectural design process. The information about the case studies was obtained by interviewing the principal architects, who described the development of their residential project. All the interview information was organized according to three different architectural programming frameworks: the program described by Alexander, the Problem Seeking Method and the Contemporary Values of Architecture enumerated by Hershberger. To assist this research a database was developed to store the three case study information and organize this according to the three selected architectural programming frameworks. A computer tool to reproduce Alexander s Decomposition of Systems (HIDECS) was developed and used for the case study analyses. The HIDECS computer program was reconstituted within a contemporary computer programming language, more than forty years after its first use, and is available for architectural design development now. The results of this research pointed out the rich design issues of the three case studies and each architectural programming framework identified the origins of design solutions adopted. As a set, the analysis methods showed the importance of objective reasoning and demonstrated the essential influence of construction knowledge on a productive design process

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architectural design architectural projeto arquitetonico arquitetura - projetos e plantas

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