| Summary: | 博士 === 國立交通大學 === 土木工程系所 === 93 === Since Frank Gehry completed the design of Barcelona Fish in 1990, the form of architecture starts to be liberated. With the help of computer technology and new materials, architecture was no more the geometrical figures. Its form becomes unlimited. This kind of development has been largely adopted since 1997, and then come along with the related researches regarding free-from construction, which include the technology that explores the other fields, the software and the hardware, and the processes of design and manufacture. With increasing numbers of researches, such research has become a specific field that examines all of the questions about free-form architecture from design to construction processes (Friedman, 1999).
Taiwan has gathered sufficient experience with designing free forms; however, only few of the projects came to real constructions. As a result, Taiwan has been lacking in researches about computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) on free forms, which makes those design projects on free-form constructions pause in the proposal stage.
This research is based on two ways concerning free-form design and construction：new materials and manufacturing processes. In the development of new materials of free forms, the goal is to generalize the direction of such development, and then evolve primary materials that free-form constructions need; as for manufacturing processes, the goal is to evaluate those initial processes proposed by the previous researches, and then come up with the initial design and manufacturing processes for the medium free-from constructions.
For the research approach to design and manufacturing processes, some similar projects with certain conditions which are controlled as the same as Bcom project will be executed in order to know if the design processes proposed by previous researches are complete or needed to be modified. Then hopefully a complete set of design processes for a small free-form construction will be established. Afterward, execute the medium free-form design projects with above new processes, and conclude the initial design and manufacturing processed of medium free-form constructions.
Moreover, on the aspect of defining new materials, this research is hereby to find out the possibilities of applying related materials from different fields on free-form constructions by executing different scale free-from projects. Then try to figure out the insufficiency of current materials, and indicate the direction of development of new materials. At last, develop the specific primary new materials, in order to prove the necessary of the development of new materials on free-form constructions.
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