Construction Tech & Design Integration II
The relationship between the construction of architectural sites and buildings and the representations which describe these constructions is the primary focus of the course. At its core, the course aims to provide students with tools which will allow them to design, with greater precision and confidence, projects which demonstrate site planning and construction, which merge with problems in construction technology with in the context of a given, hypothetical, site and building design. Architectural representation becomes shared context of problem solving for both site and building.
A series of lectures emphasizing the role of algorithmic thinking in design production. Shape grammars, a powerful formal system for the description and generation of designs is presented in detail. Shape grammars have been developed to generate a variety of architectural languages including Palladidan Villas, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Houses, Queen Ann houses, Christopher Wren churches, Guiseppe Terragni Apartments, Ricardo Legoretta housing schemes, and many others. And still other grammars are currently developed to generate designs from scratch. /this class emphasizes the systematic generation of sets of designs (languages of designs) from scratch and focuses in the representation of these designs in 3-dimensional design worlds.