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Abstract
”The use of Smart geometry to design advanced forms of office buildings”
The world has been radically changed in the last few years by the emergence of parametric design tools. This increases the opportunity to develop the geometry introducing a new smart one. Smart Geometry, applied in the new parametric softwares, provides advanced design concepts and increases alternative variations which race in a new smart era. Parametric design software also adds more rules and relations on the design process to minimize the time consumed in modifications and to avoid the repetitive work effort for the whole process once more. Accordingly, it facilitates handling the design between multidiscipline engineers simultaneously within the design process phases. In addition, it manipulates the design process starting with the conceptual design phase by defining the problem and exploring design solutions, and then developing design phases, ending with the fabrication process.
Generative Components (GC) is the implemented parametric platform that is compiled for the purposes of achieving the objectives of this thesis. GC provides Global Variables with associative functions that can be as simple as a numerical value, or as complex as large mathematical equations. GC overcomes the limitation of the conventional CAD softwares as well. Now architects can build a system of rules, variables, and fixed components for any building prototype depending on its theories and the design criteria of each case. Moreover, this system of rules can be edited and modified afterwards by any end user without a deep programming or scripting background. Obviously, the enhancement in technological computational tools appears vividly in office buildings and towers resulting in a wide spectrum of creative and complex forms. GC is established to deal with repetitive functions, modular spaces and-flexible creative structural skin of office buildings since the parametric design tools in GC has the facility of associating components of office buildings repetitively. By the end of this research, smart geometry is applied on designing high office buildings. This is achieved by analysing the basic theories and design constraints of office buildings considering functional and environmental aspects, consequently variations of office building families are deduced. Besides, the analysis of the previous parametric design case studies of office building. Finally, a parametric design application is fulfilled to examine and evaluate the different external and internal factors affecting office buildings formation. Within this application the researcher would have primarily deduced two general rule schemata concerning the core position and wind effect on office building.