ARK-E1023 - Parametric Design, Lecture, 8.1.2024-18.2.2024

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  Parametric Design
  

  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.
  

  All teaching within the course will be conducted remotely! An Introduction into the course takes place on Tuesday 9 January 2024 at 10:00 at zoom.
  

  The course is organized in six blocks related to one specific topic. It is recommended to work through the course in the given sequence of topics, one topic each week. The learning is supported by exercises as well as weekly Q&A sessions. In addition, some readings are provided for a better understanding of parametric design. Successful completion of the course is based on in-time submission of the three designated homework assignments. 

  Q&A: always Tuesday 9:30-12 at zoom (starting on 16.1.2024)

  All materials and lectures can be found from the tutorial link: here
  

  
  

  Week 1 - Associative Geometry

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

  
  

  Week 2 - Curves
  

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

  Assignment: Homework_1

  
  

  Week 3 - Surfaces
  

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

  
  

  Week 4 - Data Handling
  

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

  Assignment: Homework_2

  
  

  Week 5 - Form-Finding
  

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

  
  

  Week 6 - Optimization
  

  • tutorial (pdf)
    
  • examples form lecture
  • exercise_9 (solution)

  Assignment: Homework_3
  

  
  

  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:
  https://www.rhino3d.com/download/
  

  
  

  Assignments
  

  Successful completion of the course requires submission of Homework_1, Homework_2 and Homework_3 no later than 17 December 2024 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
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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