Application of live-link solutions in the architect’s practice and the Bauhaus heritage

Jan Szot

doi:10.37190/arc200409

Abstract

The article presents the possibilities offered by live-link solutions in an architect’s workshop. The point of reference was both the current design practices and the model of creative processes formed by the Bauhaus. The study analyzed the possibilities of using new technologies at the stage of forming the conceptual body of the building and creating a visualization of the designed object.     Tests related to the conceptualization of the building were carried out using computational methods coupled with the BIM environment (Building Information Modeling) on the example of a working model prepared for the purpose of the study. Information flow and the possibility of working on several tools in real time are presented, which is a significant improvement in the verification of various formal variants. In addition to laboratory considerations not embedded in real conditions, an example of an already completed building was given, in which the described methods played a key role in the formation of the body. The validity and utilitarian nature of selected Bauhaus assumptions in the described processes have also been demonstrated.     In the case of visualization, the BIM environment and real-time image rendering engines were combined. The simple form of the building, prepared in the first research trial, was placed in a graphic environment enabling efficient performance of representations of the designed space. The emphasis here is on the role of the designer’s workshop and theoretical knowledge in achieving the highest quality effects, which also allows for the correlation of the attitudes of an architect – craftsman and architect – artist in the Bauhaus era and today.     The result of the tests carried out is the conclusion that the architect, despite the intensified digitization, cannot lose the qualities of an artist and craftsman sanctioned by the Bauhaus. Attention was also paid to the influence of technological possibilities on the forms of buildings, which was also noticeable in the Weimar school, which saw in the machine an ally and a creative medium. The development of technologies and digital tools introduces previously unknown creative possibilities, but their full implementation cannot take place without the architect’s attributes such as craftsmanship or artistic sense.

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