Design of Complex Buildings with Digital Fab Tools

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Design of ComplexBuildings withDigital Fab Tools

• Design Studio, Rapid Prototyping
• New Design Languages

Prof. Larry Sass Jennifer Seely Department of
Architecture and Planning
MIT
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• Lever House NYC 1952
• Mass manufacturing parts
• Multiple components of the same size or geometry
• Relationship of drawings to manual construction

20 Century Standard Design
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• Frank Gehry
• Stata Center
• Increased Building Complexity
• High Cost to Build and Design
• No Rapid Prototyping tools were used in the
  design process

21 Century Non Standard Design Complexity
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Rapid Prototyping Creative Design MIT
Studios
NC
CAD
COMPUTER
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Two Transformations in the Design Process 1)
Creative design with RP devices in studio
Teaching Design for complexity through generative
methods in computing 2) Embedded knowledge
into building components Function, behavior and
structure into each component
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Background George Stiny Shape Grammars Rule
Based Design 1975 John Gero Agent Based
Design 1980 Branko Kolaveric Digital
Fabrication 1995
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• Generative Methods of Design
• CBA Student
• Yanni Loukissas

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Generative Design Process The creative process
is a generative process
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• Embedded knowledge or rule into building
  components
• CBA Jen Seely
• UROP Sarah Hudson

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Eif Form Kristi Shea Cambridge University
All Nodes are different
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Modella Milling
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21 Century of Architecture Design Creativity
using Rapid Prototyping Devices in
Studio Studio
Rapid Prototyping Embedded Knowledge