الفهرس 
Chapter 1: Parametric Architecture and Parametric Forms GenerationOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The evolution of architectural design software throughout the years has triggered the emergence of parametric architecture. Although parametric design has facilitated the design of non-standard complex architectural forms, there is still a challenge in setting the right design objectives for these forms from the early design stages. This is because various design objectives can be considered during the form-finding process. Since the global population is increasing, there is a major increase in energy use in buildings. Accordingly, attempts to optimize buildings for energy performance objective are now critical. Furthermore, complex forms require the various techniques provided by digital fabrication for their implementation. Therefore, the digital fabrication objective should be considered in the optimization of these buildings. Also, aesthetics are known to be significant in assessing the success of the architectural buildings’ designs. Thus, the aesthetics objective should be considered in the optimization of architectural buildings, especially for the recent non-standard complex designs. However, there is an absence of a framework that integrates energy performance, digital fabrication, and aesthetics as objectives in the form-finding process. The thesis proposes a multi-objective optimization framework that generates architectural parametric forms considering the three mentioned design objectives in the early design stages. The proposed framework consists of five phases; form generation, multi-objective optimization, aesthetic evaluation, geometry rationalization, and digital fabrication of a prototype. Afterwards, it is implemented on a case study building model. Finally, results of the final designed form are compared to that of a reference form. The comparison indicates that the final form generated from the proposed framework has managed to enhance the specified objectives by a percentage that reaches 2.25% comparing to the reference form.