Procedural Modeling of Structurally-Sound Masonry Buildings

We introduce structural feasibility into procedural modeling of buildings. This allows for more realistic structural models that can be interacted with in physical simulations. While existing structural analysis tools focus heavily on providing an analysis of the stress state, our proposed method au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Durand, Fredo, Whiting, Emily Jing Wei, Ochsendorf, John A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73112
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6235-1995
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-069X
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Summary:We introduce structural feasibility into procedural modeling of buildings. This allows for more realistic structural models that can be interacted with in physical simulations. While existing structural analysis tools focus heavily on providing an analysis of the stress state, our proposed method automatically tunes a set of designated free parameters to obtain forms that are structurally sound.