ABSTRACT
From the case studies presented in the previous chapters, common threads begin to emerge as aspects of the digital design process are revealed. Some of these connections relate directly to the ways in which CAD technologies are applied to modelling and representational issues, particularly to the modelling of complex forms, such as the Great Court roof, the Eden project, and many of Frank Gehry’s schemes. The ability to visualise design proposals by navigating in and around 3-D digital environments is the simplest and most direct way of exploiting digital representations. The relationship between form and circulation in the scheme by Szyskowitz-Kowalski could not have been resolved without the visualisation of digital models. The presentation of similar design criteria to clients in Faulkner Browns’ InfoLab 21 project was achieved through exploded views of digital models. In the Stata Center project, as in most Gehry schemes, many alternative geometric arrangements were investigated by making simple and rapid changes to complex CAD models.
