ABSTRACT
The previous chapter attempted to make a connection between the formal CAD modelling of particular complex surfaces known as ruled surfaces in terms of CAD objects such as hyperboloids and paraboloids, and one of Gaudi’s major architectural achievements. The further architectural examples in this chapter will illustrate how buildings of apparent complexity can be constructed by applying the basic CAD operations described in Part 4 to the CAD objects in Part 3. The intention of all of these examples is to show the design student the ways in which a range of well-known architectural forms, some simple and others more complex, can be generated from basic CAD objects and operations. In other words, that there is a core set of CAD principles underlying the development of architectural form, however complex these forms might be.
