위상 최적화와 다이아몬드 볼트의 결합 가능성에 관한 연구-칼 뵈티허의 텍토닉 개념을 바탕으로-

Abstract

This study explores the possibility of integrating topological optimization with diamond vault architecture from Karl Bötticher's tectonic perspective. According to Bötticher's concept of tectonics, topological optimization constitutes a kernform but not an a kunstform. To address this insufficiency, this paper proposes the possibility of combining the post-Gothic style of diamond vaults with topologically optimized forms. It is observed through a historical and conceptual overview and geometric analysis that both share the resultant effect of volumetric efficiency and the geometric principle of being interpreted and created based on points. Furthermore, in the procedural aspect, topologically optimized forms undergo the rationalization process to be transformed into industrially producible forms, where this research suggests that the reinterpretation of forms through diamond vaults becomes possible. Broadly interpreted, this study attempts to reconsider and restore the degree of architects' involvement in form, which has been gradually diminishing in the computational process, from Karl Bötticher's tectonic viewpoint.