Form Manufacturing is mainly focused on BIM: the most well-known acronym of digital technologies in AEC. A pro-fessional procedure yet required in many countries. A new modus operandi catching the atten-tion of other growing services in construction How it works, and how we can work with it are the questions the course is addressing focusing on design conception, and management. Design as a research practice based on digital crafting, physical testing and prototyping are also covered
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Obiettivi Formativi
Upon completion the class, the student is expected to acquire:
• capacity to understand contemporary digital architecture;
• knowledge and skills to conceive and manage construction operational workflows and
architectural artifacts under the digital technologies of industrial manufacturing;
• geometrical knowledge and skills to operate in form generation and modeling software;
• confidence with spatial aggregations of a different kind of elements, and structural behaviors
• abilities to manage the designing process combining architectural design, structural engineering, construction technologies, materials and computer fabrication techniques
• basic understanding of the computer-numerically assisted fabrication process and software to feed it
• capacity to produce iterative models to test and to verify architectural hypothesis
• awareness on advanced technologies and new materials suitable for architecture
• abilities to conceive communication strategies and to realize effective public presentations
Prerequisiti
Student attending the class is required to have her/his laptop with preinstalled 3D CAD software, raster/vector graphic programs and any other digital tools for visual communication and public presentations. Plugins and other specific software to support class activities will be available for free downloading during the semester.
Although the class is an introductory teaching on BIM and Computational Design, each student is expected to have confidence in CAD with a basic understanding of solid modeling and to be skilled in graphic design for final and intermediate presentations. Because the class is not providing any teaching about the use of CAD and graphic software and considering that the class proceeds from scratch to advanced modeling techniques, till parametric/generative design in second year, students is strongly recommended to enter short courses on BIM / 3D CAD provided by the «Laboratorio Informatico del Dipartimento di Architettura (LIA)» In addition, students are required to have completed studies on traditional materials and technologies for architectural constructions.
Metodi Didattici
The class is a fab-lab conceived as an hybrid computer based hands off/hands on activity, supported by the Department’s Architectural Models Laboratory (LMA), MAILAB – Multimedia Architecture Interaction, reinforced by theoretical dissertations; discussions; and intermediate individual / collective reviews presentations.
Theoretical activities are carried out through teacher’s slide presentations integrated by guest lectures, selected readings, case-study analysis.
Other activities are developed through home and in-class assignments concerning the release of a "Construction Prototype Model" for the structural system of the main Lab's Project, and other exercises con natural morphogenesis; physical/digital shape manipulations and generations; manufacturing; case-study analysis; experiments based on transformational methods entailing manipulation of surfaces or objects through different procedures and techniques (cutting/stretching, morphing/warping, folding/unfolding, origami/kirigam, waffling, tessellation).
Altre Informazioni
Academic integrity and honesty.
The class is against plagiarism and dishonesty. Cheating, appropriation of materials from other authors without crediting them and re-using researches or projects done in previous course without appropriate authorization is a violation of the University’s code of academic integrity. Penalties for such violations can result in loss of credits, to fail the course and, in severe cases, to incur legal actions. Students are invited to place clearly source references and credits in appropriate way using standard conventions.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Student work evaluation is based on attendance, and credits get during the semester. Class policy establishes that if the student is not attending compulsory classes (see the Class schedule) or has collects more than three absences fails the exam. In any case, the professor is not responsible for students who are not receiving information due to their truancy
Evaluation is expressed on the assignments' results and graded in thirty taking in consideration originality, creativity, refinement, dedication, attention, completeness, correctness:
• 30L- 29 exceptional evaluation, awarded to students whose work is outstanding
• 28-27 distinguished evaluation, awarded to students whose work is good
• 26-24 average evaluation, awarded to students whose work is adequate
• 23-18 low evaluation, awarded to students whose work is sufficient but not completely
satisfying in all the aspects
• <18 insufficient, awarded to students whose work failed in several aspects
• NC «not classified», awarded to students whose work is missing or presents severe
lacks.
Students failing the course need to start a new course with no credits recognized.
Programma del corso
With «Environmental Design» (second year), this course represents the disciplinary contribution of «Technology of Architecture» to the Master on Architectural Design. Both are focused on architectural project and computational parametric design embedding the decisional process, communication and designing as well: processes dealing with willness and facts, with "un-materiality" formalized, computed and extracted through digital technologies
The philosophy of the two classes is to jump over the software generated free-forms, or the prevalent use of design technology for calculation, visualization, and rendering.
The philosophy is to persue a coherent and interoperable process and to promote a research attitude based on digital materiality.
In this semester, the «Building Systems Design» class is focused on two different topics:
1) the production of the Building Information Model for a medium small architecture;
2) the fabrication of a Conceptual prototype for an architectural building system.
Here is the related Course Scheduling:
- Launching a Project: Concepts, Spaces, and Budgeting
- Site Surveying and Place Assessment
- Structural Mass Modeling and Environmental Based Computational Morphogenesis
- Brief for approval. Concept&Feasibility, Program, 3D Enriched Model of the Site
04 Nov. Design coordination for interoperability
- Joining and assembly architectures: structural elements and superstructures
- Working with Architectural Bim for structural design
- Embedding physical awareness and information extraction
- Structural and technological model. Draft deliverables review