Computational Technologies Studio 3 CT Project Based Learning (PBL)

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This course, ARCH 703B, is the third Advanced Architecture Design Studio in the Master of Science in Architecture, Computational Technologies program. This last Studio 3 - PBL, in continuity with but differing from Studio 1 and 2, will be a project based applied research studio aiming to complete a single class-wide project through a diverse set of approaches and expertise. The knowledge acquired through the previous studios, core and elective seminars will be integrated into a site-specific, 1:1 scale construction in the Long Island campus at NYIT. The PBL studio will work during the summer semester. Each class will be asked to integrate the diverse knowledge previously acquired, and potentially activate new mediums and new media as means of doing architecture, by implementing new technologies that aim to generate new parameters, innovative design-thinking processes and enable proto-architectural structures. First, building up from previous studios and seminars, this studio will use an applied experimental approach expanding dimensions between computational design, materials and digital fabrication and assembly. Second, it will expand design authorship to include the parameters that define computation in architecture design and that structure systems of representation, including, among others, distinct algorithmic structures, emergent geometry (machine learning, AI), new plug-ins, and ultimately new software to develop the class-wide project. Third, this studio will facilitate subject-object interaction through sensors and augmented reality that can be used to develop responsive ecological and healthy environments. Fourth, studio work will also focus on the parameters that define material based construction systems in architecture and structure building components based on economic efficiency. The design and investigation of new materials, new fabrication processes…