Press Release
Parametric Generation Building by Junming Chen Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design
Junming Chen honored for generative, algorithmic, parametric and ai-assisted design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Parametric Generation Building by Junming Chen has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Parametric Generation Building
Parametric Generation is a residential town design created with the parametric tool Grasshopper. Buildings in the traditional style of eastern Sichuan are generated from a small set of parameters, such as length, width, height, eave size and roof slope. The individual buildings can be combined freely, and the complex covers about 100,000 square meters. Designers can add details to the generated models, and any revision is made by entering new parameters. The method keeps one architectural style across a whole town and shortens the design process.
About Junming Chen
Junming Chen is a designer and programmer with a multidisciplinary background. He holds a BA in Architecture, an MS in Design, and an MS in Computing. Currently studying for a doctorate in digital media at Macau University of Science and Technology, and working in the Digital Construction Laboratory of Macau University of Science and Technology. Good at using parametric and artificial intelligence technology for design practice. He designed and built several parametric projects. He has also won many design awards and computer awards.
Award Record
Junming Chen is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design Award
The A' Generative Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good generative designs from leading creators and designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to generative designers, algorithmic design professionals, ai-assisted design experts and parametric designers from all countries. Typical entries include algorithmic artworks, parametric architectures, generative graphics, ai-assisted illustrations, computational sculptures and procedural patterns. The awarded generative designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/generative
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/150656
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/150656
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!150656
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/344009
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
###
Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Parametric Generation Building
- Function
- Building
- Category
- Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design
- Discipline
- Design Strategy
- Industry
- Innovation and Design Industry
- Colors
- Dark Slate Blue, Steel Blue, Dark Slate Gray, Light Slate Gray and Midnight Blue
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Junming Chen
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #150656
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This design uses GH technology to generate and modify the town quickly, explore parametric technology, and realize the inheritance and innovation of eastern Sichuan folk houses. The architectural design has carried out a modern evolution design for the east Sichuan folk houses, making the architectural design more modern. In this design, the architectural and commercial space is designed to be flexibly combined to achieve various functions and maintain the consistency of the architectural appearance.
- Inspiration
- This project uses the parametric technology Grasshopper (GH) to automatically generate the residential towns in eastern Sichuan. Use technology to solve the problems of inconsistent design styles and low design efficiency in small towns. Using GH to generate buildings replaces manual drawing and modeling, realize a unified architectural style, improves design efficiency, and ensures the continuation and innovation of Chuandong culture in the city.
- Research
- Research Background: Designing a small town is a highly complex task, requiring many designers to spend a lot of time designing and modifying. Many people collaborated on the design, resulting in inconsistent architectural styles, and it took a lot of time to alter the plan simultaneously. Methods: The town generation program was written through the Grasshopper (GH) program to realize the rapid generation and modification of the town. Results: The computer (GH) quickly generates a town design that matches the site, and the generated town continues the architectural style of eastern Sichuan.
- Challenge
- Traditional town design faces two difficulties. One is that the design cycle is prolonged, and the other is that many people design together, resulting in inconsistent design styles. To solve these two problems, this design proposes to convert the regional culture and architectural style into executable computer programs to realize the automatic generation of buildings, that is, to discover the automatic generation of towns by writing Grasshopper (GH) programs.
- Realization and Technology
- This design summarizes the design principles of Chuandong Architecture and writes it as a GH program to realize the automatic generation and architectural style control of the town. This technology has two main advantages. First, the architectural design style is unified and cultural characteristics are preserved. Secondly, designers can carry out detailed designs based on buildings generated by GH to achieve rich details and efficient methods. It only takes a few minutes to develop the whole town with GH, the generated model is accurate, and the BIM model can be directly exported to guide the construction.
- Operation and Interaction
- 1. The designer enters the parameters required by the building in GH, such as length, width, height, the size of the eaves and the slope of the roof, etc., to generate the building. 2. Designers add architectural details to the generated buildings. 3. If modification is required, directly re-enter the necessary parameters to regenerate the building.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project is located in Chongqing, and the design time is 2023.
- Specifications
- The designed building complex covers an area of about 100,000 square meters and comprises individual buildings in the Eastern Sichuan style. The separate buildings can be combined freely, and GH generates each building.
- Keywords
- Grasshopper, Automated generation, Parametric design, Algorithm generation, Generate building, Cultural heritage
