Università Roma Tre

Objectives
IN THIS CLASS, STUDENTS EXPERIMENT WITH THE NEW DESIGN TECHNIQUES LINKED TO DIFFUSION OF NEW INSTRUMENTS OF PARAMETRIC MODELLING, DIRECTLY LINKED TO ANALYSIS AND DIGITAL MANUFACTURING TOOLS. THE AIM IS TO EXPOSE THEM TO THE EVOLUTION OF PROFESSIONAL PROFILES BRINGED BY NEW INSTRUMENTS. THIS IS DONE THROUGH LECTURES, A SELECTION OF PROJECTS, BUT ALSO MEETINGS IN PERSON WITH COMPANIES AND PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE NEW FIELDS, THROUGH DEDICATED SEMINARS. THE KEY IS THAT AT THE SAME TIME STUDENTS HAVE A DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF THE INSTRUMENTS BY USING THEM IN THE CLASS. THROUGH THEIR OWN WORK, THE LINKS WITH THEIR COLLEAGUES IN A SHARED WEB PLATFORM, AND THE LINK WITH OTHER PARALLEL CLASSES, ALLOWED BY THE COURSE. IN THIS WAY, THE COURSE AIMS AT HAVING THEM UNDERSTAND THROUGHOUT AND WITHIN THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE,
THE NEW PRODUCTION METHODS OF CONTEMPORARY ENLARGED DESIGN TEAMS, WHERE PROJECTS ARE DEVELOPED PASSING SEAMLESSLY FROM DIGITAL MODELING OF CONSTRUCTIVE COMPONENTS AND OF THEIR ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE TO PRECISE CONTROL OVER DESIGN GEOMETRY, STRUCTURAL AND ENERGY ANALYSIS, UP TO DIGITAL MANUFACTURING OF THE FINAL OUTCOMES.
Contents
Parametric Design Techniques

The course is focused on innovative design processes. Students will be exposed to advanced methods as well as to design and production examples in order to set up the awareness of the new toolset that is available to designers and engineers in the fields of parametric modeling, analysis and digital fabrication. Student work will be deployed in software such as Revit, Rhino/Grasshopper, GenerativeComponents, Ecotect, SAP, CNC packages depending on the chosen topic. But in any case the focus will be on the production of data (cost, structural behaviour, construction, environmental analysis), in the context of constant exchange in multisciplinary design groups. Each student will have the chance to customize the course experience by linking the topic to external classes, to develop interdisciplinary and collaborative design topics. This will ultimately lead to the experience of the new professional profiles that are requested to architects by the new working environment of the contemporary digital culture.
The class will be linked to the ongoing research project for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012.

STEFANO CONVERSO, IL PROGETTO DIGITALE PER LA COSTRUZIONE, MAGGIOLI EDITORE, MILANO 2009
STEFANO CONVERSO, SHOP ARCHITECTS. COLLABORAZIONI COSTRUTTIVE IN DIGITALE,
IT REVOLUTION IN ARCHITETTURA, EDILSTAMPA, ROMA, 2008
BRANKO KOLAREVIC, KEVIN KLINGER, MANUFACTURING MATERIAL EFFECTS. RETHINKING DESIGN AND MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE, TAYLOR&FRANCIS, 2008
MAURIZIO GARGANO, FORMA E MATERIA. RATIOCINATIO E FABRICA NELL'ARCHITETTURA DELL'ETÀ MODERNA, OFFICINA EDIZIONI, ROMA, 2007
INGRID PAOLETTI, COSTRUIRE LE FORME COMPLESSE. INNOVAZIONE, INDUSTRIALIZZAZIONE E TRASFERIMENTO PER IL PROGETTO DI ARCHITETTURA, COLLANA TECNOLOGIA E PROGETTO CLUP, MILANO, 2006
AXEL KILIAN E AL., ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY, BENTLEY PRESS INSTITUTE, 2008
PATRICK BEAUCÉ, BERNARD CACHE, VERSO UN MODO DI PRODUZIONE NON STANDARD,
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