From the course: Grasshopper: Generative Design for Architecture
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Measurable design goals
From the course: Grasshopper: Generative Design for Architecture
Measurable design goals
- [Instructor] Often, the most creative design ideas seem to emerge fully formed out of the designer's head from some lyrical inspiration. Upon closer examination, many of these products reveal themselves to be laboriously tested, utterly rational responses to thoughtfully articulated design requirements. It is the requirements, or design goals, that embody the true inspiration. The Panton Chair appears at first to be a sculptural aesthetic experimentation. But if you consider its design objectives, stackable, resilient, a single part, stable, strong, made from a single mold, it starts to look more like an utterly rational response to the design requirements. The form of the Panton Chair can be seen as a rational utilization of new material technologies, fiber-reinforced plastic, to meet a set of well-articulated, measurable design goals. In many ways, its novel form foreshadows the complexity of form now emerging from the combination of generative design and additive manufacturing…
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