Parametric Generation 住宅城鎮設計 by Junming Chen

Parametric Generation 住宅城鎮設計 by Junming Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 銀獎 in 生成式設計 Competition Category.

銀生成式· 2023

Parametric Generation 住宅城鎮設計

by Junming Chen

Client: Junming Chen

A' Design Award 銀獎 Winner in 生成式 Category

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The Design

About Parametric Generation 住宅城鎮設計

「參數化生成」係一個用參數化工具Grasshopper創作嘅住宅城鎮設計。川東傳統風格嘅建築由一小組參數生成,例如長度、闊度、高度、屋簷尺寸同屋頂斜度。每棟建築可以自由組合,整個建築群覆蓋大約十萬平方米。設計師可以喺生成嘅模型上加入細節,任何修改只需輸入新參數就得。呢個方法令成個城鎮保持統一嘅建築風格,亦縮短咗設計流程。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銀獎

Parametric Generation 住宅城鎮設計是 A' Design Award 銀獎得主，這是授予頂級、華美而令人印象深刻的設計的極為崇高的認可。銀獎得主是極其卓越、極具創造力的作品，展現出其設計師傑出的專業技能、才華與敏銳。預計Parametric Generation 住宅城鎮設計將成為一件出色的典範之作，兼具非凡的專業性與深刻的創新性。這件贏得 A' Design Award 銀獎的設計是一項備受矚目、令人欽佩的發明，造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Parametric Generation 住宅城鎮設計是一件令人羨慕的創作，它喚起渴望，帶來積極的情感，並激發驚嘆與讚嘆。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: 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.
Tags: Grasshopper, Automated generation, Parametric design, Algorithm generation, Generate building, Cultural heritage
Production 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.
Design 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. For the inheritance of regional culture and architectural style, this design analyzed the structure and layout of many local buildings, summarized the architectural characteristics and converted them into executable computer programs, and finally realized the automatic generation and modification of the town.
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.
Insights: This method realizes the rapid generation and modification of the 3D model of the town, and various parameters of the generated building are adjustable. Designers can add design details to this generated town, which ensures the unity and high efficiency of the design style.
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.
Project Duration: The project is located in Chongqing, and the design time is 2023.
Operation Flow: 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.