Technology: Building Envelopes – Digital Transformation: Generative Processes from the Conceptual Phase to Implementation

© Matthias Reitmeier
© Jason Hawkes
When the aim is to implement complex geometries in a strained economy, it does not suffice to merely determine which digital tool is best suited to the task. It involves thoroughly digitizing the individual steps of the work process, from the concept to the finished product. When the CAD programs and the methodology behind them are understood as not merely a means to depicting a design, but as part of the engineering, new horizons open up. One of the outstanding innovations in computer-related work is the fact that we can now go about it in a much more interconnected, communicative manner. Various complex, unrelated disciplines, results, and adaptations can be merged in a highly complex process. New computation methods are required – and are feasible. This dynamic way of approaching tasks allows us to rethink the work process – a process that has thus far been one-dimensional.