Advanced Digital Design- Beyond Visualization, Ruth Ron, assistant Professor, UFL by ruth ron

Ruth Ron | Assistant Professor Digital Design | ARC 3181 | SP 2010

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Advanced Digital Design | Beyond Visualization | ARC 3181 University of Florida | School of Architecture | Spring 2010

“…recent architectural work exploring new digital tools and processes can be broadly categorized in terms of purpose as productive or generative. The first, productive, is focused on enabling an architect to visualize, achieve or refine an architectural concept which has already been formally predetermined. The second category of use concerns the generation of architectural form from data-inputs (referred to generally as parametric design). …Both categories involve new technology … The key difference is in the way in which the digital processes are engaged creatively and the ultimate representational intent of the architect.” -Cynthia Ottchen, OMA- Office for Metropolitan Architecture In the current state of rapid development in computation and communications, the architect is asked to not only grasp new technologies but to incorporate them into the design process. With new tools to create virtual and physical geometries, the architect must not only be proficient in this skill, but employ it toward new ideas and potentials. This advanced digital design class will require the student’s ability to progressively challenge form, space and time. It looks into the realm of three-dimensional modeling, one that is no longer a simple representation of reality but becomes a generative apparatus. The class will investigate advanced digital modeling techniques with the purpose of employing them in the design process. We will explore a wide variety of tool such as Rhino and Grasshopper, DreamWeaver for web design, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. We will employ critical contemporary readings and precedent analysis, and will conclude with a series of digital design exercises. The semester will be divided into 3 parts, each focusing on a digital theme. In order to use digital technology in an innovative and creative manner in Architecture, the class themes will be coupled with contemporary theory and practice. Additionally, it will not tie itself to specific software, but will work across the board with a wide variety of tools. For each project, we will start with a reading and precedents research. We will learn digital tools to support the new concepts and conclude with a design project. The class will meet for 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab in smaller groups each week, attendance is mandatory! The lab sessions will reinforce digital tools learned in the lectures, introduce in-class tutorials and will track progress and give feedback for the 3 term assignments.

Class Objectives Upon completion of the course, students will be:

* Able to use digital tools creatively for architectural design * Familiar with a range of 3D modeling software. The goal of the class is not to cover all features in each software but rather to make the students comfortable with it, so they can continue to improve their skills on their own through books and online resources. * Understand different modeling techniques with their strength and limitations. * Up to date on contemporary digital architecture practice; understand their strategies, concepts and production methods.

Readings 1. Cynthia Ottchen- The Future of Form: The location of Meaning in Data driven Architecture. download PDF - read p. 520-528 Optional additional readings: - Bradley Horn- Meaningless Form / Formless Meaning download PDF - read p. 515-519 2. Michael Meredith - ‘From Design to Control’ - 1 2 3 4 Optional additional readings: - Digitally Mastered - MoMA exhibition 2007 - Defne Sungurog˘lu- Complex Brick Assemblies - AD Magazine PDF 3. Performalism – Form and performance in Digital Architecture download PDF 4. Lev Manovich – a. ‘The Shape of Information’ http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/IA_Domus_3.doc Optional additional readings: - Greg Lynn– Folds, Bodies & Blobs: Collected Essays [p.109-133]

Project Descriptions Project 1: Theme: Loft / morph– deforming the grid Site: Architecture Atrium Program: design a multi-use furniture piece

Project 2: Theme: Repetition/ Variation – Deforming the Grid Site: UF Fine Art complex Program: plan a Spatial ADDITION to on of the fine Art buildings. It can be interior or exterior intervention, above, under or around the building(s). 1000-2000 sq. ft. Process: - choose a site - analyze and diagram its grid - define a strategy of grid deformation with diagrams - design, model and render your intervention

Project 3: Theme: Repetition/ Variation – Patterns Site: UF Fine Art complex Program: Building facade/ bridge/ roof/ landscape

Project 1: Loft / Morph Corey Thomas

Loft / Morph_ Project 1 | 02 Matthew Tarpley

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Loft / Morph_ Project 1 | 03 Daniel Martinez

Loft / Morph_ Project 1 | 04 Kyle Altman

Loft / Morph_ Project 1 | 05 Lauren Insalaco

LOFT/MORPH

LAUREN INSALACO This project incorporates some of the most common uses of the atrium while also acting as an extension of the gallery. It is entirely a unit for displaying models or drawing boards. It also includes areas for resting and gathering with other people. Each of the bands are individually morphed to create bulges and depressions in the system while conforming around the shapes of the columns. Together, the bands provide spaces that range in scale from small enough to house a model, to large enough for a person to lay down.

Loft / Morph_ Project 1 | 06 Takuya Saeki

Pause Shelter:Talk,Eat,and Nap #1 ARC3181 Prof: Ruth Ron. GTA: Simon Barrow Period 2-3 SEC 0955 Takuya Saeki 3131-4991

Section 1

Sketch

Pause Shelter:Talk,Eat,and Nap #2 ARC3181 Prof: Ruth Ron. GTA: Simon Barrow Period 2-3 SEC 0955 Takuya Saeki 3131-4991

Section 2

1 4 2 1.chiars 2.bulletin board 3.nap space 4.benches

3 Plan from top view

Project 2: Repetition / Variation - Deforming the Grid David To

Repetition / Variation: Deforming the Grid_ Project 2 | 02 Corey Thomas

Repetition / Variation: Deforming the Grid_ Project 2 | 03 Kyle Altman

Repetition / Variation: Deforming the Grid_ Project 2 | 04 Naomi Maki

Repetition / Variation: Deforming the Grid_ Project 2 | 05 Carolina Llano

Repetition / Variation: Deforming the Grid_ Project 2 | 06 Nicholas Lowe

Project 3: Repetition / Variation - Patterns Juan Castillo

Repetition / Variation: Pattern_ Project 3 | 02 Nicholas Lowe

Repetition / Variation: Pattern_ Project 3 | 03 Nick Steshyn

Repetition / Variation: Pattern_ Project 3 | 04 Amber Atkinson

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Lauren Insalaco

Repetition / Variation: Pattern_ Project 3 | 06 Kyle Altman