ABSTRACT
This research restores the original vision of the Sydney Opera House. It's an application of computational design thinking of the complex form based on original Utzon's design drawings. A visual programming language and environment, a parametric structural engineering tool, and an interactive algorithm are combined for their benefits in the geometrical, structural, and algorithmic optimization process. It shows how the designer can interact in synchronous time with the generative design tool and aim at the satisfaction of the structural stability constraints. The study concludes that the designer can target the preliminary design towards the minimization of the maximum deformation. The twenty studies and 14,800 variations of the design of the 0.12 m thick concrete shells analyzed concluded in the following values for the deformations: 4.4%, 18.45%, 18.63%, and 18.00% of the spans of Shell 1,2,3 and 4 respectively when the Delaunay triangulation theory in computational geometry is used.
