Abstract

DE FREITAS PIRES, Janice. Between the curves of contemporary architecture and the teaching of geometry in architecture: a didactics approach to the parametric design. Rev. cienc. tecnol. [online]. 2020, n.33, pp.1-10. ISSN 1851-7587.

Contemporary architecture is undergoing great transformational moments, especially concerning with the process design, the use of innovative construction materials and techniques, and simulation, which aim at evaluating the performance of the architectural object throughout the whole process: from conception to useful life. In this new context, we identify updated knowledge that needs to be appropriated by architects and designers, who are the main participants of the whole process (conception, design, construction, evaluation and use). Consequently, there is a didactic problem within the schools of architecture because they teach professionals to work for the labor market with contemporary projects. One of the approaches involved in the contemporary design processes is related to the geometric complexity of the proposed shapes, defined and based on a set of approaches. On the one hand, such approaches can be those which are based on technological development that allows integrating graphic representation and simulation for the digital environment with the purpose of the shape searching and its optimization and; on the other hand, the exploration of the natural system functioning, its process and the geometrical formation, as the ones implemented by Gaudí, Friar Otto, Félix Candela, Heinz Isler and Luig Nervi. The connectlon between computational design practices and nature phenomena emerges as a potent approach for architecture regarding with material savings and its qualitative integration with the environment or insertion place. A network of concepts about the complex surfaces of contemporary architecture had previously been established thanks to a doctoral research. Considering that architecture referential case, the objective of the present study is to promote a didactic investigation on the use of complex surfaces in architecture, which aims at building up new references for both the adoption of parametric modeling techniques and such digital fabrication surfaces as a support for the action design.

Keywords : contemporary architecture, complex geometry, parametric modeling, minimal surfaces, architecture teaching..

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