BK2OV2 - Structuur en Detail

Module OV2 is the follow-up to the module OV1 offered in semester 1.
Within the OV2 education programme, which extends over the first ten weeks of the second BSc semester, students are further introduced to various visual concepts at the level of architectural composition and experience, in particular by making and drawing physical models. Furthermore, this module will focus on methods aimed at digital modeling and representation, in anticipation of the second design assignment, in quarter 4.

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BK3OV3 - Parameterisch Ontwerpen

This module uses the powerful possibilities of simulation and analysis techniques in the computer that take architectural design to a higher level. For this exercise, a simple building/object in 3 dimensions is designed in the computer. This design is placed in an accurate virtual representation of the design location. The virtual model of location and building provides the opportunity to accurately analyze the building in the context of its environment. The design will first be assessed mainly on the basis of its functional properties.
After that, simulations and analyzes will be carried out in the field of insolation, using climate data from the location. With this knowledge, the building will be adapted to better adapt to the circumstances of this location. The spatial and formal properties of the design form an important starting point, only this time in the context of the analysis of the building and its surroundings.

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BK7083 - Computational Design Studio

The objective of the course is to design a multi-functional building complex, based on preconditions and environmental data, by utilizing computational tools, methods, and techniques in a workflow. The students will design basic algorithms to measure and optimize the performance of the building concerning the urban, environmental, and sustainability features. The course will explore how computational design and -thinking can enhance architectural design and its processes. The computational design models will be set up systematically and flexibly using (visual) programming tools..

AR0051 - Online Digital Portfolio

This course will run for a whole semester, during which we will help you create a web-based portfolio of your own products, with the main objective to be able to present yourself in a digital way, with hints for the binary do's and dont's. There will be focus on three aspects of the presentation portfolio: use(r), content and character. These aspects will be assessed by analysis, reflection and application in a circular way. During the course, criteria will be explored that can provide a solid base for decision making in the creation process of the portfolio. In this process, we will also actively approach the portfolio-user-market in order to form a clear picture of the intended “users”. Besides these “soft” aspects of portfolio design, the technical aspects also will get attention. The programme offers support for different web based tools/environments like HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

AR0138 - Technoledge Design Informatics

Technoledge Design Informatics course focuses on the use of computational techniques to design and build architectural objects which have complex forms. The students develop design proposals for a given assignment by using parametric and generative design tools and methods. They develop parametric models in order to analyze and optimize the design solutions considering several performance criteria and the fabrication techniques. They form groups and collaborate with each other for fabricating the design in actual scale. They utilize computer aided fabrication tools and methods along with the most common craftsmanship for the fabrication of the design which they have developed. This is an intensively hands-on course. The main method is learning by doing. The students also receive a few presentations on the main concepts and the intellectual background of the given task.

AR1B024 - Introduction to Computational Design

This course aims to introduce the uses of computational design methods within an integrated workflow. It is a hands-on design course in which the students develop skills by working on a design assignment. The course introduces the students to a series of practical workshops each of which focuses on a specific application such as gathering environmental data, developing spatial designs, implementing performance analyses, and digital fabrication. They are then asked to integrate all of these applications within a comprehensive workflow to design, analyze, prototype, and present a small-scale architectural product.

AR0202 - Computational Intelligence for Integrated Design

Computational Intelligence encompasses theory and application of computational methods, techniques and tools that have the ability to learn based on given datasets, models and tasks. It includes AI comprising machine learning, bringing together concepts from probability and statistics to programming and optimisation. It is increasingly applied in the building sector, both to help understand the current status of built environment and to make informed (design) decisions based on predicted future responses. It mines data and translates them into actionable information. It harnesses and helps understanding information to turn it into applicable knowledge. This course focuses especially on the potential of Computational Intelligence for Integral Design in architecture and engineering, intended as a process of integration across disciplines.

AR3B012 - CORE

CORE is a design studio course. It primarily focuses on Design Computation in an architectural and structural design context, with an emphasis on building technologies. It addresses various scales within the built environment, ranging from urban to building products, by paying attention to environmental, social, cultural, and ethical aspects. The course setup involves and integrates 5 modules as; 1. Design Studio 2. Programming 3. Materials & Structures 4. Design of Construction 5. Tools, Methods, and Inspirations.

AR0139 - MEGA

A MSc 2 course running at the TUDelft Faculty of Architecture. It is attended by students from Architecture MSc track of Architecture and MSc track of Building Technology and by students from Civil Engineering. It is a collaborative design course, focusing on the relevance of collaboration among specialists.

Students work in teams. Each team includes 6 (sometimes 7) students. Each team works as a multidisciplinary team and is responsible for delivering an integrated design of a complex building (usually a multifunctional high-rise building). Within the team, each student is responsible for one discipline. The disciplines are: architectural design; structural design; climate design and installations; façade design; design and construction management; and computational design.

 

AR0771 - Beyond 3D

The name of the course indicates that the content of the course goes beyond the traditional 3D visualization and enters the realm of advanced modelling, texturing and rendering which can be found in the film and gaming industry.
The topic is the visualization of a quote. The quote can be chosen from a book, a speech or from a song. The complexity of the task is to translate the essence of the quote into an image or a virtual environment communicating this essence, a process which also can be found in the visualization of an architectural design idea.

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AR3B025 - Graduation Building Technology

The Building Technology Graduation Studio continues the build-up of Bucky Lab Design and the BT MSc1 courses, the Technoledge courses, EXTREME technology or MEGA (or approved equivalent), and CORE or User-centred Sustainability Studio to the student's own graduation project in the Building Technology master track.
In the graduation studio students work (preferably in groups) on their individual graduation project comprising a preparative technical-scientific study (until the P2, this first part) and design, design by research or research by design (after the P2, the second part of the graduation studio).

AR4B025 - Graduation Building Technology

The Building Technology Graduation Studio continues the build-up of Bucky Lab Design and the BT MSc1 courses, the Technoledge courses, EXTREME technology or MEGA (or approved equivalent), and CORE or User-centred Sustainability Studio to the student's own graduation project in the Building Technology master track.
In the graduation studio students work (in groups) on their individual graduation project comprising a preparative technical-scientific study (until the P2) and design, design by research or research by design (after the P2, this second part of the graduation studio).