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Digital Design + Production
The DD+P course has been updated for Spring of 2010. The course is now a full "Unité D'Enseignement" with a course weight of 6 credits. The course is schedulled for the full day on Tuesdays, with lectures and theory in the morning session and practical skill building in the afternoon.
The DD+P course has two primary goals:
| - To expose participants to current practice, research, and theory in architecture that is pushing the usage of digital design and production. |
| - The second goal is to provide hands on experience for participants with digital tools, and production equipment to develop of new concepts and methods of design and production. |
The pedagogic focus is to develop a discourse about the usefulness, appropriateness and value of these technologies for both architecture and society. |
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Data Design
Increasingly digital data is being used to represent much of the world that surrounds us. The DD+P course will investigate how this data can be accessed by designers, how it can assist in design, and how it can be used in to drive fabrication machines for architecture. The goal of this UE course is for students to develop digital skills in CAD and CAM and to build mock-ups of designs that have been generated from data.
Well designed architecture is a mix of both form and function.
For architecture to “function” it must be designed to accommodate detailed requirements, respond to external influences, and perform according to specifications. The parameters that determine function are explicit – meaning that they can be quantified. As digital design tools become more complex, they allow for greater opportunity to “tune” a design by implementing specific digital design information into the code of the design.
The use of digital tools, combined with complex data sets, has potential to generate complex geometries. The use of computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines can assist in the fabrication of complex parts and constructions.
This semester the Digital Design and Production course will be an experimental research course.
We will be experimenting with new digital design technologies, with a specific focus on the manipulation of large data sets, and how they can be used to control geometry and design.
With four new fabrication machines in the laboratory space, the output of the course will also be experimental. The characteristics and limits of each machine will be explored, with the aim of developing new methods and processes of fabrication.
The course will be split into Theoretical and Practical session. One day each week will feature a lecture and discussion on topics related to digital design and manipulation of data, and one session will be “hands on” training with digital tools associated with design programs, or with digital fabrication machines.
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