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This thesis aims to put an aesthetic evaluation, as an active performance criterion for an alternative generative design method for kinetic architecture. Thus focusing particularly on the analysis of formal aesthetic system and looking for a possible extension of it toward an analysis of movement gestalt. Particularly trying to understand the phenomena of movement per se and our fascination about it. Learning from the latest development of experimental psychology and cognitive science: perception system, theory of gestalt, formal aesthetics, and design heuristics I formulate the scale of the comparative judgment in a scientific manner, thus establishing a possibility for quantitative aesthetical evaluation with metrics. Research is focused on the elastic kinetics and a novel morphological vocabulary it can offer, by articulating a gradual phase change and revealing a new aspect of time perception. Within this rigorous framework, I hope to build a coherent methodology for informed design, bridging different aspects of complex kinetic systems - evaluation of formal aesthetics and investigation in live physics simulation - into an interactive design generative process.
ITECH M.Sc. Thesis Project 2017: Wrap Up - A fabrication process for a 3D modular fiber composite architecture system
André Kauffman Zolnerkevic, Alexandre Mballa-Ekobena
Thesis Advisers: James Solly, Oliver Bucklin
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jan Knippers
Second Supervisor: Prof. Achim Menges