This is a second semester (2010) elective on prototyping responsive architecture using parametric / generative design approach. I am teaching this with Jane Burry and Daniel Davis at School of Architecture and Design, RMIT.
RAD-P: Responsive Analogue and Digital Prototyping
Getting Physical with Responsive Models
Information is ubiquitous. There is an unprecedented volume of information in our physical and socially networked world that can be used to inform our design problems and the way we design. What happens if we get our digital models to respond to our physical environment? What are the possibilities for design if we are able to get our analogue models to converse with our digital models? How do we design an architectural model that responds to, interacts with, and adapts to the ambient environment, physical stimuli, or online social networks?
These questions will be the subject of experiments in projects which explore the potential of new types of physical and sensor-driven input to create responsive analogue and digital design models. This elective will run in Semester 2. Classes will run weekly on Monday morning at SIAL lab 10.11.24.
This elective is led by Flora Salim, Jane Burry, and Daniel Davis from SIAL, RMIT. Flora has a background in Ubiquitous Computing, and she has successfully run a similar workshop, Parametrics and Physical Interaction, in SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona. Jane is an architect and a researcher in Sagrada Familia, and has been exploring the use of mathematics in architecture. Daniel is a postgraduate researcher in the reasoning of complex relationships in parametric models.
