A Study On Contemporary Digital Design Method And Strategy Of Western Architectural Morphology

In the last several decades of years,with the development of technology, and, complexity sciences in particular,viewpoint of new science terminated the domination of Classic Science。This paper tries to analyze and classify the representational design methods and strategies of the current western architectural morphology digital design from the point of theory and practice, and further studies the social background,academic base and practical operation of its generation,development and change from macro , meddle and micro level.They mainly include three parts. The first is the digital amalgamation of the heterogeneity elements. It analyzes the topology transformation in the architectural morphology design, and points out the multiple needs of the social consciousness, multi-subjects exchange based on the science and richness and effectiveness of transformation. The second is the digital tectonics of the product form. The author reviews the development clue of the technology-driven architectural product form, discusses how product form can make fully use of the opportunity provided by digital generation with the support of the digital technology, especially when tectonics has become a direct function of the digital computing, and further testifies the methods and strategies in architectural surface creation and parameter design. The third is the digital generation of the complexity system. First the author discusses the latest emergence theory in architectural morphology design and closely-related form-finding design methods. Then he points out that emergence theory can be used not only to explain the nature evolution and development phenomena, but also to direct form-finding design methods to provide a series of data formula and resultantly to produce complex form, behavior, and artificial aptitude model, which are the pursuing targets of architects. Because architectural morphology digital design needs the support of software, the author further studies the micro level of it. How to understand a number of 3-D model software is the original intention of the author, and the aim is to find out and work over the characteristics and some potential discipline of different software.The author only concerns the partial field in methods and strategies of the current western architectural morphology digital design. The conclusion in this paper doesn't contain all of them, but they are representative and can be used to explain the works of the pioneer architects from a certain point of view. Finally,based on all the conclusions drawn from the researches in this thesis,The author intends to outline the future of Chinese architectural design in the digital age.