ABSTRACT

Design problems are inherently complex in their nature. A design solution is a resolution of a multiplicity of design aspects, both technical, contextual, material to purely symbolic and social. In the past most design aspects- especially structural aspects had to be simplified, in order to be understood and resolved. At present computational design and analysis tools are highly developed and available. They allow for resource efficient design developments dealing with highly complex problems. Furthermore, computational analysis methods can give better insights to material behaviour where our physical eyes and experimental tools cannot depict extensively. With adequate awareness for which the limited information included in virtual models, and the degree of their abstraction from the reality, modern time computational tools could be applied effectively as part of design developments and offer further source of inspirations.