Optimization at Conceptual Design Stage with Morphologica...
Vandenbergh, Thomas
Within sustainable development one strives for structures with a minimum volume of material. At conceptual design stage a clear hierarchy among different structural morphologies can be established with Morphological Indicators (or MI). MI are dimensionless numbers that represent a property of a structure (e.g. its volume) and only depend on a reduced number of variables, providing user-friendly and efficient tools to guide students, architects...