The class introduces students to complexity in Architectural Design. The class proposes and explains the digital means, the procedures, the uses and the organization of contemporary Design Offices mroe oriented toward innovation and integration of different instances in the design. The class is oriented as a small Laboratory, even is its results are evaluated in the understanding of the theory and the new concepts introduced. Students produce a series of small designs, based on the direct experimentation of digital procedures in BIM software, conceived in its parametric core identity. So there is a strict relationship between technology introduced and design topics, thanks to a careful selection and filter of the proposed functions. The basic assumption of the class is that there is a strict need of facing new technologies, deeply understanding them and their power, but in a day to day effort to engage them in a design based thinking. The aim is to prepare students to a mindset that is fruitful in the contemporary professional and cultural context.
teacher profile teaching materials
Collana IT Revolution in Architettura, LULU/Edilstampa, Rome, 2010
Maurizio Gargano, Forma e materia. Ratiocinatio e Fabrica nell’architettura dell’età moderna,
Officina edizioni, Roma, 2007
Mutuazione: 21002135 BIM - TECNICHE PARAMETRICHE DI PROGETTAZIONE in Architettura - Progettazione architettonica LM-4 N0 CONVERSO STEFANO
Programme
The class is structured on the combination of pratical experimentation of parametric design software procedure, with a constant theoretical understanding of the relationship and consequences of this approach in the contemporary context where architects operate, made of constant need of interaction, exchange and mutual interference with specialists, consultants, contractors. Students have to pass a series of design exercises based on the generation of variable components and of their assembly. Design assigments acquire increasing complexity and end up in a final project for a fully simulated small architectural component, whose components are directly prepared for File to Factory fabrication, using 2D milling technology. Projects are often prototyped in scale models using laser cut technology.Core Documentation
Stefano Converso, SHoP Works. Digital Constructive Collaborations,Collana IT Revolution in Architettura, LULU/Edilstampa, Rome, 2010
Maurizio Gargano, Forma e materia. Ratiocinatio e Fabrica nell’architettura dell’età moderna,
Officina edizioni, Roma, 2007
Type of delivery of the course
The class is held in person and has to be frequented. It is mirrored online through a custom developed web portal where students are users and post their design progresses and advancements. This way, everybody in the class is aware of the collective progresses and this information becomes the basis for a collective thinking. Classes are also live recorded in video in order to work as support during exercise development for the students.Attendance
Attendance is mandatoryType of evaluation
The final exam is a discussion, based on the design exercises developed along the course, publishing online. For the exam a final dossier is printed, together with maquettes produced (optional).