Working with Mathematical Tools for Generating Complex Surfaces
Özet
This paper presents the findings of a workshop conducted with the
undergraduate students of architecture at the Istanbul Kultur University
within the “Form and Geometry”course. The main aim of the workshop was
to inform the students on the ways of working with mathematical tools for
generating complex surfaces. Matlab was chosen as the mathematical tool for
this workshop due to its ease of plotting curved surfaces. After a brief
introduction to the user interface and plotting features of Matlab, students
were given the task of generating a hyperbolic paraboloid surface.
Afterwards, the students were asked to experiment with their model and
observe the effect of the change in the parameters on the model geometry.
Finally, the students were shown how to export the generated surface to a
DXF file and asked to import the surface model to Autocad. The workshop
was concluded with a group discussion on the views of participating students
on using mathematical tools together with CAD tools to generate complex
surfaces and the difficulties they have experienced throughout the exercise.
