Computational Design

Catalog description

ARCH 701B, is the first Advanced Architecture Design Studio in the Master of Science of Architecture, Computational Technologies program. This design studio will focus on specific issues of representation through computational design. An informed realism implies that reality is continuously transformed by information systems. The designer can now intervene directly upon reality by recognizing and displacing information systems. Students will address computation as proto-architectural. Questioning how architects represents space, the studio will implement, displace, and advance computer algorithms, data representation and data interaction. The studio will use an applied experimental design exercise, to integrate through computational design, the parallel knowledge being acquired in the co-requisite seminars. The studio will do experimental applied research within a range of spatial-based problems, ranging from: Big Data gathering and processing; to simulation; to emergent geometry implementing computational languages, machine learning and artificial intelligence; to an augmented virtual reality simulation interface. The studio will ultimately question systems of representation in architecture, innovating, developing and expanding algorithms, tools, interfaces, and applications. Prerequisite Course(s): Corequisites: ARCH 775. ARCH 781, ARCH 783