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Discrete Architecture takes up Neil Gershenfeld's work at MIT from an architectural point of view. His Center for Bits and Atoms is researching new methods of digital fabrication, building their research on the use of discrete digital building blocks. Here the joining logic of an element is already anchored in its geometry, similar to Lego bricks.
In planning, different block geometries can thus lead to completely different architectures that break through Cartesian spatial concepts in bottom-up hierarchies.
In a workshop, the effect of different building block geometries will be tested and applied in design.
For this purpose we use Project DisCo, a tool that is being developed at the department for Digital Methods and that enables users to choreograph discrete components in Virtual Reality and thus to assemble them into architectural conglomerates. Project DisCo is programmatically based on the Grasshopper Plug-In Wasp by Andrea Rossi, who will accompany us during the workshop weekend.
The workshop does not require any previous training in digital methods. You should only be interested in the academic fields of architecture and the application of Virtual Reality in design work.
The seminar will be taught in English.
Info
Modules:
- MSc. Architektur und Städtebau:
Workshop: Prototypes
Lecturers:
- Jan Philipp Drude
- Andrea Rossi
