LEARNING OUTCOMES
Basic knowledge of digital fabrication in the context of architecture. Students will learn how to use various fabrication machines, with specific emphasis on 3D printers and six-axis robots, and how to prepare their designs for fabrication on these machines. During the course the students will work with Python programming language with integration in Rhinoceros CAD environment to develop their projects.
Credits: 3
Schedule: 06.06.2022 - 17.06.2022
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Luka Piskorec
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course is an introduction into basics of digital fabrication in the context of architecture. Building up on the ideas of the course ARK-E2513 Algorithmic Design, it explores ways designs can be physically articulated through means of digital production. The course postulates and tests the thesis that architectural design was always conditioned by the available means of architectural production. As those means changed with the technology they were reflected in the way designs evolve, making these two areas, design and production, inseparable. Today, computer numerical control and robotics not only pervade industrial production, but also start influencing the production of architecture.
This course will provide the students with a holistic perspective into the contemporary production context, point out challenges for architects and builders in the years ahead, as well as provide specific skills for them to use in architectural practice. The course will cover an introduction into basic digital fabrication methods, with specific emphasis on 3D printing and robotic fabrication, and is taught as an intense two-week long workshop at the beginning of the summer teaching period. To demonstrate the skills gained in the course, the students will develop, submit and present a project at the end.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Students will be evaluated based on the project submitted at the end of the course. The submitted project needs to follow the guidelines which will be clearly communicated in the task description together with reference examples at the beginning of the course. Evaluation criteria fall into three groups:
- Formal
- student has at least 60 % attendance rate for contact hours
- submitted project is within assigned topic and scope
- project is submitted on time for evaluation and in correct format
- Skill
- submitted project demonstrates student s ability to engage and work in an independent fashion in the computational design workflow shown in the class
- submitted project demonstrates that the student invested the designated amount of independent study hours to master the software, equipment and methods used in the computational design workflow shown in the class
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
The course takes place in first two weeks of the summer teaching period. It is structured as a full-time workshop totaling 80 work hours divided in 10 days. Lectures and computer exercises take place Mondays to Fridays from 09:15 to 17:00. This workload is designed to suffice for developing and submitting a project at the end of the course.
DETAILS
Study Material
valid for whole curriculum period:
Aside from the hands-on tutorials in the computer lab and lectures during contact hours, the students will be provided with the online video tutorials covering the same topics as in the class. These can be used by the students during their self-study hours and are meant to repeat as well as expand on the topics shown in class. Practical information in condensed form will be included in the course hand-outs prepared specifically for the class. All learning materials will be provided to students in digital form. The moto of the course is Learning by doing and the students will be required to practice their skills directly on their project submitted at the end of the course.
Substitutes for Courses
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Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
12 Responsible Production and Consumption
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Period:
2020-2021 Summer
2021-2022 Summer
Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ARK-E2511
Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts
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The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)
The order of priority is as follows:
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
- exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
- students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
- students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
- other students.
Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.
This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.
- Teacher: Piskorec Luka