Computational Design Studio 2 Fabrication and Robotics

Catalog description

ARCH 702B is the second Advanced Architecture Design Studio in the Master of Science in Architecture, Digital Technologies program. The studio will follow an applied research approach to computational design by developing physical experiments 1:1 scale, leading to a full-scale prototype, a digital fabrication full-scale spatial exercise, or a class wide interactive interdisciplinary exterior pavilion or interior installation. Digital fabrication will be expanded to include the several interfaces, machinic systems, CAM (computer aided manufacturing software) for tool-paths in 3d Printing, CNC (computer numeric control mechanisms), Robotics and informational processes between computer representation and machine-based output, expanding dimensions between materials, drawing and building processes and systems. Each student will be asked to understand critically the translation differential between computational design as representation and material computation as digital fabrication. The design studio will work to integrate in a hands-on design exercise knowledge acquired in the pre-requisite, co-requisite studios and seminars. Students will address architecture through computational fluid dynamics/simulation, structural simulation, material simulation (3d printing and time-based programmable 4d printing), performance simulation and optimization activating an evidence-based design in forensic architecture and post-occupancy measurement. The project will also work with environmental simulation to activate micro-ecologies for a post-human responsive healthy space researching into materials as mediums to activate ecologies. This hands-on project-driven studio will engage with the design of built prototypes thinking them 1:1 scale, working with emergent material forces. This studio will teach students the emergent issues in digital fabrication and materials to prepare…