Fluid Dynamic Simulations as Conceptual Design Drivers in Shaping Architectural Structures

Abstract

This research is motivated by the emergent computational technologies and tools based on Fluid Dynamic Simulations that currently find their application in architecture, and particularly in the discourses of generative, digital, and performance-oriented design. The key goal is to review the potentials and constraints of performance-driven strategies that involve the assistance of these tools in shape exploration in the conceptual phase of the design process. Within the research framework of the design case studies, we obtained results that illustrate the effectiveness of the suggested approach for shaping distinctive, unconventional structural typologies with improved physical performances.