APPLICATION OF PARAMETRIC DESIGN AND GENERATIVE DESIGN FOR THE ANALYSIS AND OPTIMISATION OF SPATIALLY DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURES | ETSAE (SPAIN) | 2017 - 2019 |

This research project studies and applies the graphic tools known as Parametric Design and Generative Design to the field of Architecture and more specifically to the particular case of Deployable Spatial Structures. This project aims to explore the capabilities and possibilities of parameterisation and programming applied to an object of study which, due to its intrinsic characteristics, is ideal for this purpose. There is also another reason why this study is particularly important to apply to deployable structures, and that is that the research methodologies proposed were not available in the period when these structures emerged, and all the prototypes to be tested had to be physically built. The speed and immediacy of computer programming and design means that we can expect a wide variety of possible results. Therefore, two types of results are foreseen for this research, some centered basically on the methodology itself and its use in the formal generation of the Architecture, and others centered fundamentally on the object of study, the deployable structures, obtaining optimized geometric algorithms to generate them or manage their design. Only after the analysis of possibilities and their optimisation would it be decided to move on to the prototyping phase using 3D printing and other digital manufacturing methods to obtain physical models.