AR0138 - Technoledge Design Informatics

This course aims to introduce digital and robotic fabrication technologies in an integrated computational design to production workflow. It is a hands-on “design and build” course. The students are introduced with a series of computational design methods and digital fabrication technologies. They develop know-how and skills on these methods and technologies by practicing them in a small scale architectural design assignment. The focus of the assignment is primarily on geometry and materiality. They are asked to develop a design by using computational methods and to prototype it by using an industrial robot arm. The students of this course will have access to Lama (Laboratory for Additive Manufacturing in Architecture) to use the robot arm and other equipment here for the course activities.

The course content is composed of the following topics:

• Visual Programming in Architectural Design (Spatial Geometry in Digital Modelling, Parametric Modelling, Form Finding).
• Design to Production through Digital Technologies (Generating Fabrication Data through Parametric Models, Organizing and Analyzing Data through Spreadsheets, Using a Scripting Language for Fabrication).
• Fabrication with Industrial Robots (Parametric Robot Programming, Industrial Robot Programming and Simulation, Industrial Robot Operation)