The primary objective of the workshop/seminar is to develop a real scale portion of a glass/plastic interactive façade. The course examines a design workshop paradigm that tights together: 1) the culture of glass. 2) parametric design techniques, 2) 3D fabrication, 3) New materials that interplay with light.
SEMESTER LAYOUT
There are three components in the course. A theory learning, a technical training and a design development. The first half of the semesters, on Tuesdays, the instructor will teach a theory and/or technical class and on Thursdays students will be actively practicing what have been explained the last day of class. The second half of the semester will be dedicated to the development of a 1:1 scale envelope design, which will be developed in groups of four.
SETTING
We will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Campbell 325 from 6:00 to 7:20 p.m. On some occasions the class will meet in Campbell 105, the computer laboratory, and in Campbell 132, the CNC Fabrication Lab. The first half of the semester we will be working in especific exercises that will be evaluated individially .The second half of the semester we will be developing 3 prototypes in groups of four people. The process of production of the iterative prototypes will be evaluated as a whole. The weekly uploading of the work in the class’ Blog and the edition of a booklet by the end of the course will be required. The primary software and hardware used this term is: Generative Components, Rhino and Parallax Basic Stamp Module; all will be provided by the school. Class participation will count towards 10 percent of the grade. Full attendance is expected.
PREMISE
A new type of post-digital experimentation has called into question the "muteness and inertness" of traditional glass architecture and its transparency. We will be working on the definition of the novel “trans-apparent” condition of glass designing and building full scale envelope prototypes for an urban context.
(The following schedule is subject to revision.)
AUGUST. Chromogenic Glasses as Architectural Agents.
WEEK 1
25th Course Overview.
Class’ topic Introduction.
Syllabus
First Half of the semester:
Exercise 1: Individual Research Topic.
Exercise 2: Smart geometry. Generative Components
Exercise 3: Controlling Lighting
Exercise 4: Making motion (Servo & Nitinol Wire)
Exercise 5: Sensors & Actuators (Photoresistor & Potentiometer)
Second Half of the semester:
Final Design (in Groups of 4.)
Topics:
Color variation: Radiant Light Film & LCD.
Light Variation: LED & Glass fibers.
Electrically triggered Motion: Nitinol Wire & servo.
Parametric Geometry designs.
Last Year’s exercises overview
EXERCISE 1 (INTRODUCTION)
Q & A
27th Theory Class:
Smart Materials and Geometry at the Luminous Environment.
SEPTEMBER. Smart Geometry & Making Motion.
WEEK 2 EXERCISE 2 (Individual)
1st Generative Components Tutorial. Computers Lab.
3rd Exercise 2: Hands on in class. Computers Lab.
WEEK 3 EXERCISE 2 (continuation)
8th Exercise 2: Hands on in class.
10th Exercise 2 presentation in class.
WEEK 4 EXERCISE 3 (group)
15th LED Lighting & LCD displays.
17th Exercise 3: Hands on in class.
WEEK 5 EXERCISE 4 (group)
22th Sensors & Actuators.
24th Exercise 4: Hands on in class.
WEEK 6 EXERCISE 5 (group)
29th Making motion with a servo and Nitinol wire.
1st There is no class. The class will work in the group’s proposal
OCTOBER. Prototype Iterations.
One Thursday of this month we will attend a class on “Light Emitting Polymers” at the Chemistry department with Professor: Cassandra Fraser.
WEEK 7
6th Group Proposal Desk Critics.
8th Theory presentation Desk Critics.
WEEK 8
13th MIDTERM REVIEW THEORY PRESENTATION.
15th MIDTERM REVIEW EXERCISES & DESIGN PROPOSAL.
WEEK 9
20th Theory Class:
The Metaphor of Crystal in Art and Architecture.
22nd Prototype iteration 1. Desk critics.
WEEK 10
27th Theory class:
Metropolis and Mental life. Building the Empire of the Gaze.
29th Prototype iteration 2. Desk critics.
NOVEMBER. Final Prototype.
WEEK 11
3rd Theory class:
From Utopia to Globalization. Curtain Wall as a Mass Media.
5th Final prototype Iteration. Desk critics.
WEEK 12
10th Class time for prototype production and desk critics.
12th Class time for prototype production and desk critics.
WEEK 13
17th Class time for prototype production and desk critics.
19th Class time for prototype production.
WEEK 14
24th Class time for prototype production.
26th Class time for prototype production.
DECEMBER. Final Prototype
WEEK 15
1st Class time for prototype production.
3rd Class time for prototype production.
WEEK 16
8th FINAL REVIEW
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