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associatif

English translation: associative [design]

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French term or phrase:associatif
English translation:associative [design]
Entered by: Helen Shiner

12:46 Jan 24, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Architecture / coursework
French term or phrase: associatif
L’intensif Techniques Numériques introduit les étudiants aux méthodes du design associatif et paramétrique appliqué à l’architecture et aux outils numériques de la CFAO.

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ormiston
Local time: 02:08
associative [design]
Explanation:
A form of parametric design, as in your text. This video explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjUli4cYEg

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2014-01-25 14:27:20 GMT)
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Hi ormiston, I can't get the link to work unfortunately. I think Didier is right that it's a back translation, and evidently originally from the Chinese as my video makes clear.
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:08
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4 +3associative [design]
Helen Shiner
4association (design) method
Lorraine Dubuc


  

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association (design) method


Explanation:
in architecture


    https://www.google.ca/search?q=m%C3%A9thodes+du+design+associatif+en+architecture&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=fi
    https://www.google.ca/search?q=architectural+design+approach+association+method&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=fire
Lorraine Dubuc
Canada
Local time: 20:08
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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associative [design]


Explanation:
A form of parametric design, as in your text. This video explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjUli4cYEg

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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2014-01-25 14:27:20 GMT)
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Hi ormiston, I can't get the link to work unfortunately. I think Didier is right that it's a back translation, and evidently originally from the Chinese as my video makes clear.

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:08
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 110
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Asker: I have found this (a reliables source?). so as usual you root around avoiding the obvious as it sounds like a poor translation (!) Parametric Associative Design for Free Form Architecture www.citg.tudelft.nl/.../Vermeij.pdf‎ Traduire cette page 13 avr. 2007 - Parametric Associative Design for Free Form. Architecture. Over the last decade, the computer has become a tool a structural designer cannot ...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Didier Fourcot: Je soupçonne que le rédacteur français avait ce terme en tête parce que "introduire les étudiants" c'est pas du français
7 mins
  -> Thanks, Didier, from what is said in the video, it seems very specific to the Chinese.
agree  Arthur Kölzow: If I might pick your brain a bit, what would be a Frenchier way of saying that?
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Arthur, probably best to ask a French native!
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
2 days 4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Gallagy
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