Digital Design & Fabrication in Architecture - Ghent Workshop KristofCrolla

Digital and information-based design methods and production techniques are explored and applied increasingly in contemporary architectural design procedures. Innovative material applications and production methods not only lead to the constructability of a new formal language: they let designers communicate directly with production facilities. The resulting possibilities for mass production of customised building components allow for the realisation of structures of unforeseen complexity.

In spring 2009 fifty architectural students from Sint Lucas, Ghent, Belgium joined this four-day Design + Build + Exhibit Competition Workshop during which they experimented with the unlimited potentialities of this design method. Assisted by tutors Jeroen van Ameijde en Kristof Crolla three selected structures were designed and built. The challenge lied in transforming 2000m2 of cardboard into three component based, human scale structures. Those were to be composed entirely from self-similar, mass produced, cardboard pieces that connected into one whole using an intelligent, rule-based system. A high speed rollercoaster race decided which three designs from the initial 16 teams remained to be built in the last 36 hours by all participants. Success criteria were buildability, functionality, originality and effective use of variation within the structure.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• architecture
• education
• sint lucas
• ghent
• belgium
• algorithm
• parametric
• design
• fabrication
• cardboard
• component
• iterative
• workshop
• kristof crolla
• jeroen van ameijde