| authors |
Dalyrmple, Michael and Gerzso, Michael |
| year |
1998 |
| title |
Executable Drawings: The Computation of Digital Architecture |
| source |
Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference? [ACADIA Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-07-1] Québec City (Canada) October 22-25, 1998, pp. 172-187 |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1998.172
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| summary |
Architectural designs are principally represented by drawings. Usually, each drawing corresponds to one design or aspects of one design. On the other hand, one executable drawing
corresponds to a set of designs. These drawings are the same as
conventional drawings except that they have computer code or
programs embedded in them. A specific design is the result of the
computer executing the code in a drawing for a particular set of
parameter values. If the parameters are changed, a new design
or design variation is produced.
With executable drawings, a CAD system is also a program editor. A designer not only designs by drawing but also
programming. It fuses two activities: the first, drawing, is basic in
architectural practice; and the second, progamming, or specifying the relation of outputs from inputs, is basic in computer system
development. A consequence of executable drawings is that architectural form is represented by graphical entities (lines or shapes)
as well as computer code or programs. This type of architecture
we call digital architecture.
Two simple examples are presented: first, the design of a
building in terms of an executable drawing of the architects,
Sangallo the Younger and Michelangelo, and second, a description of an object oriented implementation of a preliminary prototype of an executable drawing system written in 1997 which
computes a simple office layout.
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