CONSTRUCTION-AWARE DESIGN, LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES
The course is focused on construction-aware design and concludes with the fabrication of 1:1 model based on novel and experimental building systems developed by exploiting all fields of knowledge unfolded at the master. Instead of designing a shape and later plan the fabrication, a building system is invented and the form may subsequently emerge given the geometrical and mechanical properties.
The confrontation of the parametric modelling including the simulation, analysis and fabrication to the reality of assembly process, organization and building precision, raises the level of self-exigence and highlights the value of computational design.
S2.BS Building System Design
Based on strict restrictions of fabrication efficiency, teams of students explore or enhance simple systems that can produce efficient form by efficient means. Through successive and incremental physical model making, the digital model is calibrated.
Intensive physical building system experimentation
Form active and bending active strategies: implementation, simulation and analysis
Parametrization and modelling of physical behaviour
Calibration of models
Structural nonlinear analysis
S2.CA Collective Assembly
After successive evolutionary selection, teams merge, self-organise and develop strong potential candidate models that are finally built
Database Interoperability. Work in several files
Refined structural analysis
Fabrication and detailing
Mockups
Budget and planning
