Architectural Simulation and Fabrication Optimization

Catalog description

This is the terminal course for architectural visualization and building technologies. This course will integrate the accumulated knowledge acquired through the visualization, structures, and building technology course sequences. This course will use an applied experimental project-driven exercise to integrate these sequences through computational simulation and optimization evidence-based design. Each semester the course is offered, the faculty teaching the project-driven exercise will assist students in optimizing their design through a visualization simulation software (BIM, Rhino Grasshopper, Maya, others) that focuses on the simulation of architectural conditions - site conditions, structural typologies, materials, material-based construction system, or environmental systems. This project-driven exercise will range from design, to materialization and to fabrication, developing a range of possible results, from a 1:1 scale detail, to a 1:1 scale bay or full space, to a scaled envelope prototype system, to any other real scale prototype or experimental construction system. Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisites: ARCH 222, ARCH 310, ARCH 325, ARCH 340. Corequisites: ARCH 401. Classroom Hours - Laboratory and/or Studio Hours – Course Credits: 3-0-3