Ddf building skins SP12

From TTU College of Architecture

Christian R Pongratz

Office: 705 C Email: Christian.Pongratz@ttu.edu Studio location: 601A Phone: 806-742-3169-226 Course time: Th>9-11.50 A.M.

Course Information: ARCH 5334 Advanced Studies in Construction Technology Credits: 3 semester credit hours

Course Information: ARCH 5301 building skins (ddf course) Credits: 3 semester credit hours

Building Skins

The course on building skins will engage students in research and development of fabrication strategies and material processes, and explore the potential for innovation in building components and their assemblies. In addition, it will focus on the workflow between design concept in the generative modeling phases and design output to fabrication, such as the transfer to rapid prototyping and other numerically controlled machines. Students will be introduced to CAD/CAM environments, the concept of file-to-factory, and study the flow of projects in solid modeling and parametric software packages. An initial part of the course is dedicated to the analysis of design, engineering and manufacturing constraints related to innovative and high performance building envelopes. Case studies will explore the design of façade typologies through contemporary manufacturing methodologies and with regard to the materials of various cladding systems. Materials range from high-strength concrete, stone composites, extreme textiles to latest polymer and fiber composites. Each year the course will focus on a specific topic of material inquiry selected by the instructor. The notion of non-standard production will be explored through a material system driven research in two phases, surface design and assembly design. Students will be given a hands-on experience from small scale models to large scale mockups in different methods of fabrication, exploring material resistances and employing the equipment of the digital design and fabrication laboratory. Readings include works by Frei, Fuller, Piano, Sobek and others.

Featured NAAB Student Performance Criteria for ARCH 5334

21. Building Envelope systems (F)
Understanding of the basic principles and appropriate application and performance of building envelope materials and systems.
26. Technical Documentation
Ability to make technically precise drawings and write outline specifications for a proposed design

24. Building Materials and Assemblies (P)
Understanding of the basic principles and appropriate application and performance of construction materials, products, components, and assemblies, including their environmental impact and reuse

(F) Featured (P) Preparatory

1. Standard versus Non standard (research phases below)

a) CAD/CAM environments
b) standard/-non-standard
c) surfaces and structures
d) surface geometry> form-finding techniques
e) digital modeling > parametrics
f) surface subdivision and curvature
g) manufacturing technologies
h) NC technologies > CNC
i) rapid prototyping

reference:
non-standard exhibit Centre Pompidou, Paris 2003
re_sampling ornament, SAM Basel 2008

2. Surface Design and Assembly Design (design research phases below)

stacked wall design

keywords:
Surface subdivision and tesselation
Structure (Patterns: Geometrical pattern depth development)
gradient component strategies
Local to global
environmental forces

Techniques: >Scripting
a) design morphologies of components
b) CAD/CAM procedures and detail strategies (rhinocam)
d) coding & fabrication & assembly phase

reference:
Manufacturing Material Conference, BSU, 2007

Literature:
>D. Schodek, M. Bechthold, K. Griggs, K. Kao, M. Steinberg, Digital Design and Manufacturing: CAD/CAM Applications in Architecture and Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004;

>Helmut Pottmann , Andreas Asperl , Michael Hofer , Axel Kilian, Daril Bentley , Architectural Geometry, Bentley Institute Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2007) ISBN-10: 193449304X, ISBN-13: 978-1934493045

Detail_Germany
Facade Construction Manual

links:
Werner_Sobek
Schlaich_Bergermann_partner
Office_for_Structural_Design
Advanced_Geometry_Unit
Cecil_Balmond

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