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, Edilstampa, Roma, 2008
Maurizio Gargano, Forma e materia. Ratiocinatio e Fabrica nell’architettura dell’età moderna,
Officina edizioni, Roma, 2007
Programme
The class aims at building awareness on the relationship between object oriented modeling and a tectonic approach to design. Students are exposed to te full range of digital innovation applied to architectural design, from simulation, to numeric fabrication, to operation, through the presentation of several examples of contemporary design, including a historical perspective on its evolution in the past 30 years. But all along the class students will also be constantly using BIM software directly, since the class thinks direct experience on software a crucial aspect of a full and sincere awareness on the real meaning of digital culture.Core Documentation
Stefano Converso, SHoP Architects. Collaborazioni costruttive in digitale,Collana IT Revolution in Architettura, Edilstampa, Roma, 2008
Maurizio Gargano, Forma e materia. Ratiocinatio e Fabrica nell’architettura dell’età moderna,
Officina edizioni, Roma, 2007
Attendance
Students must attend at the least the 75% of lessons to be admitted to the final examType of evaluation
The Final Exam of "BIM - Parametric Design Techniques" is an oral colloquium. In order to access the oral colloquim, the students need to show that they completed the intermediate assignments provided during the semester, and published on the course web portal reachable at the address: bim.rootiers.it. The intermediate assignments are all focused on the slow and calibrated introduction of single techniques of parametric design. Students are exposed to each technique and immediately asked to explore its design application. The sequence of techniques is presented in a progression towards tectonic assemblies of increasing complexity by taking always into account a clear design focus in their application. In the case of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions that regulate the methods of carrying out the teaching activities and student assessment will be implemented. The final aim of this learning process is to show, in the oral colloquim, if and how digital techniques explored are instruments and not just tools supporting design thinking, and therefore express, in the students opinion rooted on their experience in the class, their core role in the pure conception of an architectural design at all scales.