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Sophisticated contemporary design projects are constrained by the multi-objective requirements of architects, engineers, and specialty consultants. The Louvre Abu Dhabi represents a step forward in the concurrent engineering of multi-objective geometry conditions for environmentally informed envelope design. The project takes advantage of associative and generative modeling technology to create a framework for multi-constraint problems in which all stakeholders can embed their own requirements and design rules in a real-time and collaborative way. At the same time, the creation of a globally shared, web-hosted, versioned model provides a dramatically more open and transparent way for designers and engineers to converge toward a shared solution for the geometric and environmental challenges. Thus the Louvre Abu Dhabi provides a case study for a new concurrent design approach to multi-constraint geometric problems in architecture.
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Imbert, F., Frost, K.S., Fisher, A., Witt, A., Tourre, V., Koren, B. (2013). Concurrent Geometric, Structural and Environmental Design: Louvre Abu Dhabi. 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_6
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