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Structural Design Tool for Performative Building Elements:
A Semi-Automated Grasshopper Plugin for Design Decision Support of Complex Trusses
by
Michael Patrick Makris
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE
August 2013
Copyright 2013 Michael Patrick Makris
Object Description
| Title | Structural design tool for performative building elements: a semi-automated Grasshopper plugin for design decision support of complex trusses |
| Author | Makris, Michael Patrick |
| Author email | makris@usc.edu;mpmakris@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Building Science |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Building Science |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2013-06-29 |
| Date submitted | 2013-07-29 |
| Date approved | 2013-07-30 |
| Restricted until | 2013-07-30 |
| Date published | 2013-07-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Carlson, Anders |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gerber, David J. Noble, Douglas |
| Abstract | This thesis describes the development, testing, and findings of a Rhino-Grasshopper toolset developed to encourage real-time parametric design form experimentation through immediate integrated structural analysis feedback, allowing for structural optimization through iterative formal experimentation. The performance-driven design toolset is a series of automated components that create geometry and simulate, analyze, and optimize triangular prismatic trusses in real-time for two main structural loading types: gravity and wind. Each element is constructed, loaded, and simulated within the Rhino-Grasshopper design interface, returning structural performance information infographically in a native design environment. An optimization-assist tool is included that provides designer-centric information about proposed truss solutions such as cost, weight, deflection, and truss complexity. In a series of trials of increasing design complexity, the toolset is tested and its accuracy is verified against benchmark structural engineering industry software SAP2000. This thesis argues that, equipped with immediate structural performance information, designers can iteratively improve their architectural form and better understand the impact of form on structural performance, while still in conceptual design. Architects will produce more efficient, structurally informed designs when using this toolset over traditional conceptual design tools. |
| Keyword | design decision support; Grasshopper; optimization; parametric design; structural analysis; structural design; parametric architecture |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Makris, Michael Patrick |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-MakrisMich-1885.pdf |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume7/etd-MakrisMich-1885.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | Structural Design Tool for Performative Building Elements: A Semi-Automated Grasshopper Plugin for Design Decision Support of Complex Trusses by Michael Patrick Makris A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE August 2013 Copyright 2013 Michael Patrick Makris |
