From The System Superposition To The Logical Form-a Bottom-up Design Method

As the further development of complexity theory, morphogenesis theory andparametric design as well as deepening the influence of these trends on architecture,contemporary architecture shows new characteristics which are very different fromthe past one hundred years. Relative to the continuing evolution of digitalarchitectural form the exploring of design method as the internal mechanism ofbuilding generating was not on the rise in the globalization of architectural innovation.To this, the author hopes that through the innovation of the theory of design method todevelop a new architectural design.Architectural design as one of the oldest subjects, its traditional design modelseems to be complete and show the main body of "top-down" design with a leading ofdesigners. This design approach is mainly based on the direct manipulation by subjectto object as well as a design with the core of designers. In recent years, more andmore good design begin to pay close attention to the design process and the logic asinternal order of building, which embodies the expression and exploration of thedesigners for a new design method. At the same time, the pattern of urban contextinheritance also became more complex for architectural design. With the help of thecomputer aided architectural design and the technology of computer algorithm, thedesign with the mathematical mechanism as the core showed vigorous potential ofsustainable development in the treatment of the large design information. In this paper,the focus of bottom-up design is a kind of new method based on the systemicprinciple with logic as the core and with the aim of generating the architectural formwhich designer is hard to imagine or build by hand. Although bottom-up design hasbeen mentioned in many literature and has a number of design practices it is still avague concept, many designers only use it subconsciously without knowing itsessence. Through this research author wishes to propose a tentative description of itsconcept and point out potential of the design approach and finally generalize a designmethodology available for the spread.This article starts the narrative from the theory explanation of "bottom-up"design, according to the function of differentiation in different case the design methodis subdivided into two modes of "static" and "dynamic" and preliminarily summarizesthe characteristics of them. Base on this, the author classified researches architecturalvocabulary of bottom-up design through design examples and further summarizes thedesign rules and design method.In the fourth chapter of this paper the author puts above-mentioned theories intothe effective practice by using his own project and generalizes each step of designprocess so as to clarify the purpose of design action and the way of morphogenesisand puts forward the theoretical misunderstandings and development prospects basedon the problems in the process of writing.