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Our article concerns the process of conception where one seeks to bring together an architectural form and the industrial techniques which enable its realization. It is an iterative process of, on the one hand, rationalizing geometry, and, on the other, sorting and combining production methods that both match the economics of the project and account for the constraints of technology. This back and forth essentially results in an optimization by which an industrial process best approaches the desired form.
The subject is illustrated by the example of the glazed canopies of “la Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la creation” in Paris, a project by Gehry Partners, which is currently in construction.
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Vaudeville, B., King, M., Aubry, S., Raynaud, J., Chalaux, M., Witt, A. (2013). How Irregular Geometry and Industrial Process Come Together: A Case Study of the “Fondation Louis Vuitton Pour la Création”, Paris. In: Hesselgren, L., Sharma, S., Wallner, J., Baldassini, N., Bompas, P., Raynaud, J. (eds) Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1251-9_23
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