View No. 25 (2022): Design as Exploration

Ding Yang

264 Pages 

ISBN 978-94-6366-643-5 

Published: 2023-01-11

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  • There are an increasing number of optimal-design paradigms used in architectural design nowadays. In these paradigms, a design task is formulated, or partially formulated, as an optimization problem. Multi-Disciplinary Optimization and Multi-Objective Optimization, as two important optimal-design paradigms, have shown their great potential in improving the performances of complex buildings in recent decades. Nevertheless, current paradigms for ill‑defined conceptual architectural design...