vineri, 23 aprilie 2010

Digital Technology Architecture Lab

Program 1. Training
Am finalizat programul primei sesiuni de evenimente dedicate arhitecturii parametrice ce se va desfasura in perioada 23 – 26 aprilie 2010.

Program Training 01
_day 1 (friday) 10.30 – 18.00

10.30 – 11.00: Introductory Lecture + Workshop Theme presentation

11.00 – 13.00: First Grasshopper Training Session: Basics

Topics covered:

+ Linking geometry from rhino in grasshopper, data types (points, curves, numbers (integers, doubles/floats), domains, surfaces, breps);

+ lists and trees: list operations, culling, function component;

+ making/removing connections (use additions/subtractions as examples); cross reference, longest list, shortest list examples;

+ logical operations;

+ scalar components;

15 min Coffee Break

+ vectors and points operations

+ XForm operation – Move, Rotate, Scale

+ introduction to curves (?)

+panels, parameter viewers, sliders and sliders settings, multidimensional sliders, etc.

13.00 – 14.00: Practical Application 1

Visualize mathematical functions in 3d/2d using series/range components, function components (and/or trig functions).

Implement and use geometry controls: numeric (sliders) + geometric (distance between two points, angle etc.).

14.00 – 14.30: Lecture 1: Parametric Design

14.30 – 15.30: Lunch break

15.30 – 17.00: Second Grasshopper Training Session

Topics covered:

+ curves: analysis, generation, offsetting, filleting, projecting to surfaces

+ surfaces: analysis, generation (loft, extrusion, point surface), primitives, dividing

+ orienting geometry to a surface

+ attractors (grid, surface)



17.00 – 18.00: Practical Application 2

Possible themes: create a surface and then populate it with any kind of geometry they want – circles, cylinders, boxes which are then dynamically modified (attractors/curvature values/height/etc.).

Students are asked to send in images and documenting their work.

18.00 – 20.00+

Team creation:

Everybody is asked to complete a form with their (self-assessed) experience in Rhino and grasshopper. No cheating!

Each team should have at least one person that is experienced in Grasshopper and/or Rhino.

Directed work session.




_day 2 (saturday) 10.30 – 20.00

10.30 – 11.00: Group meeting + review on past activity


11.00 – 13.00: Third Grasshopper Training Session

Topics covered:

+ paneling and advanced surface subdivision

+ triangulation

+ four point non-planar surfaces

+ four point planar! surfaces and deviations

+ diagrid

+ hexagonal paneling

15min Coffee Break

+ box morphing components as well

13.00 – 14.00: Practical Application 3


Create a surface and play with the techniques learned previously.


14.00 – 14.30: Lecture 2 (fabrication techniques and strategies)

14.30 – 15.30: Lunch break

15.30 – 16.30: Orienting geometry + basic unrolling + paper prototypes (manual cuts)

16.30 – 18.30: Teams work on a short description of their project which they will present and discuss with the tutors.

18.30 – 20.00+ Directed work session: discussions and work

_day 3 (sunday) 10.30 – 20.00

10.30 – 14.30: Directed work session

Students are encouraged to finalize their projects and to start preparing their files for the laser cutter.

12.15 – 12.30: Coffee Break

14.30 – 15.30: Lunch break

15.30 – 20.00+ Fabrication! Laser cutting madness.

Students are required to laser cut their files and to start assembling their final prototypes.

_day 4 (monday)

10.30 – 12.30: Board printing and last-minute prototype adjustments

13.00+ – EXHIBITION

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