Digital Basics: Computational design and fabrication of complex shell structures from flat material
The aim of the seminar is to generate a parametric framework for a shell structure as 1:1 prototype. Design-relevant contents are implemented digitally in order to create reciprocal relationships between individual parts and overall solutions of the design. Construction and joining logics of individual modules are to be developed iteratively.
Software-supported, integrative automation processes thus make complex geometries manageable by allowing the digital (fabrication) data to be directly adapted to iterations of the design via feedback. This allows a previously designed geometry to be parametrically controlled and dynamically modified.
The experimental examination of digital tools, also the application and design potentials of interfaces to artificial intelligence based systems are investigated in the course. Different variants of a facade system or a shell structure are to be created by applying various parameters, from which a justified one is selected to be subsequently materialised within a digital fabrication chain such as laser cutting.
- Dozent/in: Steffen Reiter