16 Şubat 2011 Çarşamba

lecture #1


digital architectural design studio 2011: brief

The main goal of this course is to provide architecture students a theoretical and practical knowledge on shape and its many possible geometries by means of computational techniques. The course will flow in two phases in which students will develop a deeper understanding and skills on the concept of shape, digital shape representation, and computational shape generation. Phase 1 will consist of lectures and assignments focusing on the core concepts and techniques, while in Phase 2, students will be expected to develop design projects.

In Phase 1, concurrent to a series of lectures, students will be given weekly assignments in which they will experiment with digital shape representation and computational shape generation techniques. The core studio part is in the Phase 2 and consists of a series of digital shape design experiments with a particular focus on the exploration of volumetric potentials to fill in the urban gaps. The outputs from Phase 1 provide the motivation, the conceptual background, and associated techniques for Phase 2, the Design Studio.

In Phase 2, a series of urban plots standing as gaps between buildings will be introduced. Students will be working on these urban gaps by exploring the existing volumetric potentials of the gaps such as boundaries, openings and closings, obstacles. By defining their individual approaches in terms of sensitivity for the volumetric potentials of the gaps, each student will be producing a series of shapes. Production of architectural spaces within these urban gaps is not in the scope of the design studio but the aim is to run a series of experiments in the production of digital shape by means of external inputs. Hence the urban gap is treated not as a building plot but an empty volume with various constraints and possibilities, as inputs to the shape generation process.

*Mind the gap r e l o a d e d is a graduate follow-up of the mind the gap project conducted by trauma111e, in the scope of the first year’s architectural design studio.

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