USC School of Architecture just announced the launch of PARAsite. This blog has been set up as a forum for debate about recent developments within the USC School of Architecture in the area of parametric and algorithmic design. PARAsite also serves as a repository of records of past events, such as the Intensive Fields conference [...]
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PARAsite @ USC
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · lecture, teaching
Tags:algorithm·digital design·intensive fields·parametric·parametric urbanism·urbanism
4A city operations_final reviews @ SCI-Arc 091218
December 18th, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
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 [...]
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
Intensive Fields @ USC_091212
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · lecture
LOS ANGELES | USC | INTENSIVE FIELDS | 12 December 2009
Intensive Fields: New Parametric Techniques for Urbanism
Conference, Taper Hall 101, University of Southern California
Last minute note from the organizers:
“Due to the unprecedented interest in the conference, we understand that the venue has now changed to a larger auditorium, Taper Hall 101, and that a few [...]
Tags:algorithm·digital design·intensive fields·parametric·parametric urbanism·rhinoscript·scripting·urbanism
field urbanism_mid term review @ usc
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · teaching
The students of Neil Leach and Nick Pisca’s ‘Field Urbanism’ studio presented their mid term work today. The studio pursues similar themes to the ‘Swarm Urbanism’ studio of last semester, in trying to find an effective strategy for urban design using digital tools. But this semester it addresses a live project. The ‘Field Urbanism’ studio [...]
ash installation_091003
October 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · design research
The first pet project was initiated by Matt Melnyk from Buro Happold and Roland Wahlroos-Ritter from WROAD in May 09. The design research focuses on a new workflow that integrates Catia as parametric modeler, Robot as a finite element analysis tool and ModeFrontier as a multiple design objective optimizer. After weeks of intensive modeling, scripting [...]
Tags:algorithm·computational geometry·digital design·digital fabrication·genetic_algorithm·installation·optimization·parametric·rhinoscript·scripting
re-thinking architecture_091002
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · interview
Roland Wahlroos-Ritter interviews Neil Leach, Professor at the University of Brighton and Visiting Professor at USC. Neil Leach has also taught at Columbia GSAPP, SCI-Arc, Cornell and the Architectural Association. He has published 17 books on theory and design, including Rethinking Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Camouflage, Designing for a Digital World and Digital Tectonics. [...]
Tags:algorithm·computational geometry·digital design·digital fabrication·eifFORM·genetic_algorithm·installation·optimization·parametric·rhinoscript·scripting