ARK-E251501 - Parametric Design, Lecture, 11.1.2022-15.2.2022

Topic outline

• Parametric Design
  Not available unless: You belong to V01 (SISU)

  

  The course Parametric Design is an intro into fundamental concepts of parametric design thinking in architecture and landscape architecture using Grasshopper, a plug- in to Rhinoceros. The course covers basics of geometry of curves & surfaces, NURBS-geometry and fundamentals of data-handling.

  
  

  Due to the covid-19 pandemic, all teaching within the course will be conducted remotely!
  

  
  

  Introduction into the course
  

  11.1.2022 Associative Geometry
  

  • tutorial (pdf)
  • examples from lecture
  • exercise_1 (solution)
    
  • reading_1

  
  

  18.1.2022 Curves
  

  • tutorial (pdf)
    
  • examples from lecture
  • exercise_ 2/3 (solution)
    
  • reading_2

  Assignment: Homework_1
  

  
  

  25.1.2022 Surfaces
  

  • tutorial (pdf)
    
  • examples from lecture
  • exercise_4/5/6 (solution)
    
  • reading_3

  
  

  1.2.2022 Data Handling
  

  • tutorial (pdf) 
  • examples from lecture
  • exercise_7 (solution)

  Assignment: Homework_2
  

  
  

  8.2.2022 Form-Finding
  

  • tutorial (pdf)
    
  • examples from lecture
  • exercise_8 (solution)
    
  • reading_4

  
  

  15.2.2022 Optimization
  

  • tutorial (pdf)
    
  • examples form lecture
  • exercise_9 (solution)
    
  • Q&A: 9:30-10:30 (zoom)
    

  Assignment: Design Exercise
  

  
  

  In preparation of the course you need to have (at least) the latest Rhino 6 version installed on your computer. A 90-day full version for evaluation is available at this link.
  

  
  

  Assignments
  

  Successful completion of the course requires submission of Homework_1, Homework_2 and the Design Exercise no later than 30 April 2022 at 23:00.

  
  

  Tutorials

  The Grasshopper Primer (3rd edition)

  The Grasshopper Primer (2nd edition)

  Generative Algorithms
  

  
  

  Reading List on Digital in Architecture

  Carpo, Mario: The Digital in Architecture 1992-2012, Wiley, 2013
  

  Carpo, Mario: The Alphabet and the Algorithm, MIT Press, 2011

  Oxman, Rivka & Oxman, Robert: Theories of the Digital in Architecture, Routledge, 2014
  

  Picon, Antoine: Digital Culture in Architecture, Birkhäuser, 2010

  Helmut Pottman et.al.: Architectural Geometry, Bentley Institute Press, 2007