4.173 design fabrication workshop design fabrication systems in studio & practice prof. larry...
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4.173
Design FabricationWorkshop
Design Fabrication Systemsin Studio & Practice
Prof. Larry SassDepartment of Architecture and Planning
MIT
what is design research?
1) Develop new ideas and topics in design
2) We study a problem in detail
3) Opportunity to present, test ideas and evaluate
4) We learn by experience
what are we going to study?
Systems in Design
Development of an algorithmic approach toDesign
Complex Geometries in Design andConstruction
why are design systems important
Working with Computational &Mechanical Devices
Take advantage of GenerativeSystems in Computation
The first step is to design a system
Reconstructing Palladio
(1) Overview & History
(2) Construction Rules
(3) Modeled Examples
(1)Project Overview
Palladio Project @ MIT
1991 – Palladio Virtual Museum(Bill Mitchell & Howard Burns)
1995 – Website(Dan Tsai)
1997 - 2004 – Printing Villa Models(Larry Sass)
Palladio
Palladio was a stone mason
Palladio Designed over 30 villas throughout theVeneto - 1535 – 1570
Drawings in the Four Books were written after thebuildings were constructed
Four Books of Architecture
The first book contained the rules
Second Book contained drawings of thevillas
Computational Motivation?
Relationship between Design and Computational Systems
Create new villas (Unbuilt) from rules outlined in this paper
To prove or disprove rule based approaches in design
Background – Palladio
Palladio, Andrea 1570 The Four Books of Architecture
Wittkower , Rudolph 1949 Architecture in the age of humanism
Burns, Howard 1975 Portico and the Farmyard
Stiny, G., WJ. Mitchell 1978 The Palladian Grammar
Carpo, Mario 2001 Architecture in the Age of Printing
Project Problems
DesignIncomplete Drawings – PalladioRelationship of the Built to the Unbuilt
Model GenerationTime ConsumingEvaluation
FabricationVoidsPhysical Size of Models
Claim: Any villa model can be generated computationallyfrom a floor plan and construction rules
Project Goal
Build 24 Villa Models
Claim: Any villa model can be generated computationallyfrom a floor plan and construction rules
Project Goal
Build 24 Villa Models
Digital Fabrication
Claim: Any villa model can be generated computationallyfrom a floor plan and construction rules
Project Goal
Build 24 Villa Models
Digital Fabrication
Create a Shape Grammar of Construction RulesDefine Plan Plan Drawing
Villa Model
Construction Rules (Construction)