General
This course is an introduction to modern and innovative logics of building, prototyping and implementing building systems. It re-examines standardized mass production technologies by decomposing the central logic that governs them so that it can then analyze how they are revised through modern digital fabrication applications. At the same time, it examines modern transformational logic as linked to the possibilities offered by new technological approaches.
Course content
The course is divided into five parts:
1. Technique and technology. The transition from traditional construction to the logic of innovation. From industrial standardization to specialized application.
2. Revising the future of production: from participatory planning to remote production. Automation. Robotic media. Developments in wood, metal and stone construction reflecting technological developments.
3. Reviewing materiality: composite and hybrid materials, ‘smart’ surfaces, changing structures.
4. Prosthetic logic: 3D printing and other technologies
5. Active structures: interaction.
Bibliography
- Yiannoudes, Socrates. Architecture and Adaptation: from Cybernetics to Tangible computing. London: Routledge, 2016.
- Peteinarelis, A., Yiannoudes, S. ‘Algorithmic Thinking in Design and Construction: Working with Parametric Models’. Στο A. Al-Attili, A. Karandinou & B. Daley (eds.). Parametricism vs. Materialism: Evolutions of Digital Technologies for Development, pp. 19-27. London: Imperial House Publishers.
- Menges, Achim, Bob Sheil, Ruairi Glynn, και Marilena Skavara, επιμ. Fabricate 2017. London: UCL PRESS, 2017. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/fabricate.
- Gramazio, Fabio και Matthias Kohler, επιμ. Fabricate 2014. London: UCL PRESS,
- Peters, Brady, and Peters, Terri (eds.). Inside Smart Geometry – Expanding the architectural possibilities of Computational design. Chichester UK: Wiley, 2013
- Melendez, Frank. Drawing from the model – Fundamentals of Digital Drawing 3D modelling and visual programming in Architectural Design. Hoboken NJ: Wiley, 2019.
- Menges, Achim. ‘Material synthesis: Fusing the material and computational’. Architectural Design 85, 5 (2015).
- Menges, Achim. ‘Material Computation: Higher Integration in Morphogenetic Design’. Architectural Design 82, 2 (2012).
- Hensel, Michael, Menges, Achim, and Weinstock, Michael. Emergent Technologies in Design: Towards a Biological paradigm for Architecture. Oxon UK / New York: Routledge, 2010.
- Iwamoto, Lisa. Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.
- Dunn, Nick. Digital Fabrication in Architecture. London UK: Laurence King Publishing, 2012.
- Ng Rashida, and Patel, Sneha (eds.). Performative materials in Architecture and Design. Bristol UK / Chicago USA: Intellect/The University of Chicago Press, 2013
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