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_id	caadria2010_024
id	caadria2010_024
authors	Gu, Ning; Wyn M. Jones and Anthony Williams
year	2010
title	Utilising digital design and rapid prototyping tools in design education
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2010.249
source	Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / Hong Kong 7-10 April 2010, pp. 249-258
summary	This paper presents a formal framework for utilising different digital design and rapid prototyping technologies in design education. The framework has been applied in a studio created for a mixed cohort of tertiary students from architecture and industrial design. A comprehensive survey was conducted at the end of the course as a means for evaluation, and for student self-reflection. This paper reports the experiences in conducting the studio and the student perceptions of their design processes and outcomes whilst confronting these tools. The paper provides insight into the application of digital design and rapid prototyping tools in design education, supported by a qualitative analysis of the survey result.
keywords	Student perceptions; digital design; rapid prototyping
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ascaad2010_179
id	ascaad2010_179
authors	Jones, Charles; Kevin Sweet
year	2010
title	Over Constrained
source	CAAD - Cities - Sustainability [5th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2010 / ISBN 978-1-907349-02-7], Fez (Morocco), 19-21 October 2010, pp. 179-188
summary	Parametric software has fundamentally changed the way in which architecture is conceptualized, developed and even constructed. The ability to assign parameters or numeric variables to specific portions of a project has allowed designers the potential to test variations of their design. Small changes to a single parameter can have an exponential effect on the designed object and alter its appearance beyond original preconceptions in both positive and negative ways. Parametric software also has the ability to constrain or restrict geometry to set values, parameters or conditions. This has the benefit of allowing portions of a form to remain constant or unchanged while simultaneously allowing for a great degree of flexibility in response to a design intent. Constraining portions of a design allows architects to respond to existing or unalterable conditions by ""locking down"" information within a project and then explore those portions that can change more freely. This programmed relationship between the parameter and the form, once established, can give the illusion of minimal effort for maximum output. The ease in which geometrical form can be altered and shaped by a single variable can mislead beginning designers into thinking that the software makes these relationships for them. What is hidden, is the programming or connections needed between the parameters and the geometry in order to produce such dramatic change. Finally, thinking parametrically about design reintroduces the concept of a rigorous, intent driven, fabrication oriented practice; a practice lost in a digital era where the novelty of new tools was sufficient to produce new form. Because parametric models must have established relationships to all parts of the design, each component must have a purpose, be well thought out, and have a direct relationship to a real world object. The introduction of parametric design methodologies into an architectural pedagogy reestablishes architectural praxis in an academic setting. Students are taught to design based on creating relationships to connected components; just as they would do in a professional architectural practice. This paper outlines how Digital Project – a parametric based software – was introduced into an academic setting in an attempt reconnect the ideologies of academia with the practicalities of professional practice. In order to take full advantage of Digital Project as a parameter based software, a project that creates modular, flexible geometries was devised. Produced over one semester, the project set out to find ways of controlling designed geometry through variable parameters that allowed the initial module to be instantiated or replicated into a wall condition: maintaining a unified whole of discrete components. This paper outlines this process, the results and how the outcomes demonstrates the parametric ideologies described above.
series	ASCAAD
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_id	acadia10_174
id	acadia10_174
authors	Sabin, Jenny E.
year	2010
title	Digital Ceramics: Crafts-based Media for Novel Material Expression & Information Mediation at the Architectural Scale
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2010.174
source	ACADIA 10: LIFE in:formation, On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture [Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-1-4507-3471-4] New York 21-24 October, 2010), pp. 174-182
summary	Design research for digital ceramics commenced with the project, “Ground Substance” an experimental form produced in the Sabin+Jones LabStudio. The design team was led by Jenny E. Sabin and Andrew Lucia. Dr. Peter Lloyd Jones and Agne Taraseviciuete led the scientific team. Our design critic was Annette Fierro. The project was inspired by original biological research conducted at the Jones Laboratory, supervised by Dr. Peter Lloyd Jones and led by MD-PhD student Agne Taraseviciuete at the Institute for Medicine and Engineering, UPenn. This research was supported generously by the CMREF. Design and production of “Ground Substance” was supported generously by a UPenn Research and Development Grant awarded to the Sabin+Jones LabStudio.
series	ACADIA
type	panel paper
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