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.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

MejiaC_RodriguezC: Final Project (continued)

We started with the Mach 5 race car as a concept, a fictional race car driven by the cartoon character named 'Speed Racer.' We transformed this through a series of analysis, and it became the Mach 5 Recreational Park





Special thanks to everybody that helped us in any major or minor way in this project. Professor Waltersdorfer, Noel, Angelica, George, Professor Goldemberg, and anbody else that gave us a hand, THANK YOU!
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