Form fitness explorations in Architecture.


Seeking to escape site-specific narratives, programmatic limitations and typological control; this class will explore architecture’s own generative and material capacities to become an organizational mechanism that relates to function.

During this academic term, we will make use of thorough digital experimentation. The use of advanced NURBS operations, computational fluid dynamics and parametric growth engines will be critical to challenge the formal conventions of building envelope and supporting systems—skin/surface/structure and the complexity of boundary definers, tectonic values and circulation areas.

Starting from the study of reference objects, we will identify particular relationships between form and performance, followed by a series of dynamic analyses that would define strategies for form optimization. Using the resultant geometry information as a driver, students will digitally model and modify the original profiles to satisfy the requirements of two architectural applications that will vary in scale.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Assignment 01:MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (2)

Stage2:Analog to Digital
Students should calculate and accurately recreate the physical characteristics of the object, using NURBS operations in Rhino. To avoid literal associations, each student should focus on one or two points of the analysis that could lead to a distinctive aesthetic language linked to performance. The main output of this stage, a series of three-dimensional digital diagrams, should emphasize the student’s understanding of the reference object’s morphology.

Provide renderings, in both wireframe and flat shaded surface modes.

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