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Digital Design and Fabrication Case Study: Seashell: January 2011
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izr. prof. dr. Tadeja Zupancic (tadeja.zupancic@fa.uni-lj.si)
asist. dr. Matevz Juvancic (matevz.juvancic@fa.uni-lj.si)
Spela Verovsek (spela.verovsek@fa.uni-lj.si)
Anja Jutraz (anja.jutraz@fa.uni-lj.si)
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Slovenia
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Matevz Juvancic
Spela Verovsek
Anja Jutraz
Contents
Theme 7
Acknowledgements 9
Keynote Speakers 11
Round table 21
What happened after the “Hype” on Virtual Design Studios? 23
Henri Achten, Krzysztof Koszewski, Bob Martens
CAAD Curriculum 33
An exploration in teaching architectural design for construction and fabrication 35
Kathrin M. Wiertelarz
Computer Simulation as an Integral Part of Digital Design Education in Architecture 43
Arzu Gonenc Sorguc, Semra Arslan Selcuk, Fatma Zehra Cakici
How to Teach Architects (Computer) Programming 51
Gabriel Wurzer, Sema Alaçam, Wolfgang Lorenz
What is the Goal in Teaching Basic CAD? 57
Dana Matějovská, Henri Achten
Towards Improved Architecture Education 63
Kateřina Nováková, Henri Achten, Dana Matějovská
Introducing Architectural Design Foundations Through Algorithmic Design And
Experimentations With Materials 70
Nilüfer Kozikoğlu, Emrah Kavlak
City Modelling 77
Public Space Patterns 79
Nuno Montenegro, José N. Beirão, José P. Duarte
Sensing digital co-presence and digital identity 87
Angelos Chronis, Prarthana Jagannath, Vasiliki Aikaterini Siskou, Jonathan Jones
Generative and parametric design in Brazilian social housing production 93
Eduardo Sampaio Nardelli, Charles de Castro Vincent
eCAADe 29 13
Environmental Design eTutor 699
Ahmed Sarhan, Peter Rutherford
Out of the box design 709
Aant van der Zee, Bauke de Vries
Digital “serial vision” - new approach in urban composition teaching 716
Aleksander Asanowicz
ARCHI21 725
Moira Hunter, Scott Chase, Bradley Kligerman, Tadeja Zupancic
The experience of an academic simulation laboratory 734
Barbara E. A. Piga, Eugenio Morello, Valerio Signorelli
18 eCAADe 29
Digital design and fabrication
Case study: seashell
INTRODUCTION
Contemporary world is a place of constant change. In that sense the structures in nature have always
New technologies are present at every field of been great lessons for human study. Having been
human activity. In spite of traditional reluctance in development for several billion of years, only
that architects have when it comes to new and the most successful structural forms have sur-
unknown, most of the architectural community is vived. One of the most beautiful, interesting, yet
finally starting to be aware that it needs to except complex natural forms are seashells. The focus of
technology, and embrace it as a new source for ar- this study is to understand how the seashell form
chitectural practice, even from the early stages of can be applicable to human architectures, not as
the design process. Until recently, typical shapes strict imitation, but as a starting point in genera-
used by designers have been rectangles, spheres, tive process of creating architectural forms. Digi-
triangles, squares and cylinders – Euclidean Ge- tal methods are used to scan selected seashell
ometries. As free form shapes no longer are con- form, as well as to suggest a variety of possible
strained by the traditional drafting and machine architectural forms.
tooling, it is now possible to build these shapes as In that sense needs for effective delivery of re-
formations with unique details and appearance. sults within processes of designing, manufacturing,
Figure 6
Final shape option