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Media Elective-4341-S10-MPerbellini

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Course description

The course is a workshop on digital parametric techniques applied to morphological processes as emergent systemic geometries. Computer is used both as a tool and a material for expression, is the agent of will and imagination. Students explore a set of algorithmic design strategies within the development of a generative design methodology that overcome formal predictability. Starting from single pattern’s components, ornamental modules, and simple geometric shapes, the course approaches the conception of non-linear formal systems organized as surfaces and/or spatial structures that are flexible, adaptable, and dynamic. Topological spaces and surfaces are generated from the relationships of the local components with their neighbors. Additive operations and their differentiations occur by digitally changing and combining specific parameters in abstract, emergent, new and more complex architectural configurations. The design process activates digital parametric systems where formal and spatial results are both informed from the designer intentions and intuitions, but also from the system properties, behaviors, and interactions. The workshop operates with the software Rhino and introduces to RhinoScript techniques.

Media:4341 Perbellini - Syllabus.pdf

Media:4341 Perbellini - Statement.pdf

Students teams

Hoffman-Stapleton

Balderrama

Luna-Molina

Mendoza-Sanchez

Serowski-Wiksten

Sinclair-Castillo

Media:4341 Perbellini - Student Work