The course is dedicated to research and development of innovative concepts for building envelope products with emphasis on stone. Issues at the center of this exploration are industrial mass-customization, digital design and fabrication techniques, geometry and patterns, surface subdivisions, which form the tools to generate compositions often leading to novel building components and their assemblies.
Students will first draw on the analysis of the design and engineering and related manufacturing constraints of selected stone building skins. Of major interest is the question why building facades with complex surfaces often need to resolve the problem of subdivision with non-standard modules and joints for panelization.
Topic of this exploration is the perforated wall surface and their component assembly methods. The course will engage in particular the relationship between geometry structure and transparency
The course work is geared towards exploring latent potentials of material transformation and assembly processes related to stone through digital design strategies and emerging numerically controlled manufacturing and construction technologies.
We will in particular engage the properties of slicing material in different ways to sheets and speculate on their different methods of assembly.
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