Director:
Michael Szivos
Visiting Adjunct Professor – Pratt Institute
Assistant Adjunct Professor – Columbia University
Assistants:
Brandt Graves
Troy Zezula
The following outline and schedule describes in detail a digital workshop that will be conducted over the period of 2 weeks, from Monday, September 6, 2009 till Friday, September 18, 2009.
The workshop will divided into 2 main components:
1. Software as a design tool.
2. Digitally Aided Fabrication.
The topics covered in the workshop will complement the theme of the first semester design Studio.
Behavioral Patterns
The workshop will address techniques that allow for the design and production of aggregate systems and the construction of relationships between the individual units of these systems. A variety of topics will be covered that reinforce the theme of behavioral patterns:
1. Smart Objects – Creating geometry through nodal relationships and designing the construction of formal through a hierarchical framework.
2. Parametric Units – the construction of units that exhibit a range of possibilities within designated thresholds.
3. Reactive Fields – Various ways to deploy a series of units in a way that they produce an aggregated system that performs as a whole.
4. Surfacing/Tiling – Populating a piece of complex geometry with smart units and patterns.
5. Working Drawings- The automation of fabrication ready tooling and geometry for various computer assisted devices.
Advanced Design/Simulation Tools:
6. Rendering/Animation
7. Deformers
8. Expressions/Scripting
9. Particle Dynamics
10. System/Fluid Dynamics
Smart Construction
The workshop will complement the software component with intensive instruction on the production of digitally assisted prototypes. The workshop will stress the idea of using these methods through a seamless integration with the design process. These tools will not be used as a final step in the design process, but as a step that requires a criticality and ability to inform the original intentions of a conceptual thesis and design project. The instructors of the workshop will present various examples of personal and professional projects executed using these techniques.
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