[BIFE Eng ver.] Why do we need facade engineers? 2/3

(2) Materialization of design

 

 There's a huge gap between designing something and actually materializing the design. In the process of materializing thoughts, there are limits of materials and trials and errors that you never thought of. But what if the object that we need to actualize is not a small prop, but a huge building?

 

The working position of facade engineers

 There will be more trials and errors in proportion to its size, and the limitations of materials will be felt even greater. In particular, the facade is a part where the architect's design intentions are strongly revealed. In these places, architects want better details to embody the image they imagined. The architect is responsible for designing buildings. On the other hand, the construction companies are responsible for actualizing and constructing the building. Their interests are quite different.

 

Comparing design materialization process to NURBS and mesh surfaces

 Architects want to embody the images they imagined, and builders want to construct buildings easier and more efficiently in proved methods. Let's give an example. The architect made a more flexible Nurbs curved surface. The construction company receives the architect's drawings and turns the Nurbs surface into a finely cut Mesh surface for the efficiency of construction. However, the architect wouldn't have wanted a plane divided into triangles. There is a facade engineer in the middle of this very interest. This is the façade engineer’s way of thinking. If Mesh surfaces are inevitable for the efficiency of constructability, how much Mesh surfaces will be made without compromising the architect's design as much as possible, or is there any other smart solutions to increasing convenience and reducing budget as much as possible while maintaining Nurbs surfaces? The facade engineer provides a solution that can be implemented from the builder's point of view while preserving the architect's design.