| authors |
Blazquez, Oscar and Hardin, Mary |
| year |
1998 |
| title |
Balancing Computer Use and Design Content in Studio Projects |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.1998.036
|
| source |
Digital Design Studios: Do Computers Make a Difference? [ACADIA Conference Proceedings / ISBN 1-880250-07-1] Québec City (Canada) October 22-25, 1998, pp. 36-43 |
| summary |
Particular design approaches must be taught in order to
take advantage of the strengths of computers in design rather than
attempting to make computers conform to methods developed as
by-products of manual design techniques. For the last three years
our team of faculty teaching the second year design studio has
been trying different approaches to the use of computers in design, in order to find the advantages and opportunities especially
suited to electronic media.
There are several projects during the semester which use
computers at different stages of the design process. One of these
projects, called “A Spatial Sequence,” uses information from a
previous project as well as the knowledge from the computer
class in parallel to design studio. The project asked students to
create spatial archetypes based on the work of well-known architects. They explore the following topics as represented in the work
of one particular architect: relationships of major spaces/minor
spaces, approach/entry, and transition/threshold. Following the
analysis, they create digital models to explore the spaces formed
by their archetypes. Before committing to a physical study model,
they look at the transitions between spaces by creating a sequence using the digital model and producing a series of shots
through the digital model to show the flow of spaces. The use of
computer through the process accelerates the options available to
explore a sequence of elements, while simultaneously giving them
a window to look into the spaces they have created. This hybridized approach of precedent analysis, digital modeling, and physical modeling was uniquely suited to the studio problem. |
| series |
ACADIA |
| email |
|
| full text |
 file.pdf (225,066 bytes) |
| references |
Content-type: text/plain
|
Clark, Roger H. and Pause, Michael (1996)
 Precedents in Architecture
, New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold
|
|
|
|
| last changed |
2022/06/07 07:52 |
|
