The studio started with an – impressively thorough – precedence study of skyscrapers in diagrams, drawings and 3d prints. And then developed -through research of Seoul, Jakarta and Mumbai – critical concepts for skyscrapers in super-dense settings. The final review took an interesting twist, when it couldn’t be no longer ignored that this wasn’t the [...]
Entries from December 18th, 2009
4A city operations_final reviews @ SCI-Arc 091218
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
Tags:digital design·parametric·sci-arc·skyscraper·undergraduate design studio
parametric design_final reviews @ usc 091215
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
Continuing todays review marathon, the students of David Gerber’s and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter’s Parametric Design I seminar presented their final work today at USC. The seminar was structured in two parts. The first part was dedicated to Case Studies. The students were asked to research, analyze and develop a parametric design strategy for building CATIA models [...]
Tags:associative thinking·catia·computational geometry·digital design·digital fabrication·installation·parametric·performance·tectonic
field urbanism_final review @ usc 091215
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
The students of the field urbanism studio lead by Neil Leach and Nick Pisca presented their work today at usc. Here is an excerpt of Neil’s studio description: ‘This project sought to evaluate an existing proposal for a CBD in Houhai, Shenzhen, and develop an alternative, improved version. The project took one semester and was [...]
Tags:algorithm·bottom up·computational geometry·digital design·emergence·graduate design studio·mel scripting·non-linear·optimization·parametric·parametric urbanism·performance·rhinoscript·scripting
non-linear aggregations_final reviews @ usc 091215
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
The students of the non-linear aggregations studio presented their explorations into algorithmic design techniques to a panel of guest critics today at usc. The undergraduate studio lead by Roland Wahlroos-Ritter is a design research studio investigating algorithmic design techniques with an emphasis on space, form and complex morphologies. Techniques of non-linear algorithms are tested through [...]
Tags:algorithm·bottom up·computational geometry·digital design·emergence·non-linear·rhinoscript·scripting·swarm algorithm·swarm intelligence·undergraduate design studio
(n)certainties (biotopes) 4.0_final review @ usc
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
After a semester of intense work the students of Marc Fornes’, Stephan Henrich’s and Francois Roche’s (n)certainties studio presented their final work today at usc.
The studio opened a new territory for usc by venturing deeply into a speculative realm of materiality, technology and ultimately architecture. Subversively leaving the bounds of what at usc is called [...]
Tags:(n)certainties·algorithm·digital design·rhinoscript·scripting