Digital tools as strategy for design workshop5 at AIU

Digital Tools as Strategies for Architectural Design - Workshop.2011
Installing software to your brain
Intro to Parametric Design
"Arab International University – Faculty of Architecture, Damascus, Syria 
Workshop at AIU “Arab International University “Damascus – Syria, is an exploration about different ways to generate architectural outcomes through the translation of information-based and information – driven morphogenetic process via digital tools.
The main objective is to extract the information from the research as an input in order to generate a new 3d spatial output, communicating the design process through the digital skills taught during the workshop.

Mothership:
AIU “Arab International University “Damascus – Syria,
 
Media partner and sponsor: Ibdaat Magazine (Damascus – Syria)

Synopsis:
The workshop Digital Architectural Tools as Strategy for Design, organized by MAG LAB in collaboration with AIU, was an exploration about different ways to generate architectural outcomes through the translation of information-based and information-driven morphogenetic processes via digital tools.
The aim of this workshop was to introduce the students to a digitally driven approach to architecture and let them begin an exploration of the potential, range and capacity of this broad world: digital tools are not just intended for modeling or simulating but as a consistent and powerful design strategy.
Ideas, processes, strategies and conditions will interact and intertwine throughout the whole design path, alternating theoretical classes to tutorized practical work, in order to translate information processing into a spatial architectural outcome.
The design brief of this intensive workshop was re-thinking the role of creativity in the realm of Architecture design through parametric modeling.
•    Workshop Instructors 
- Prof.M.Aref Maksoud (MAG LAB - Barcelona–Spain/Damascus - Syria)
MAGLAB Director, Authorized Training Center of McNeel (Robert McNeel& Associates– United States) in Middle East,
Visitor professor of architecture, College of architecture, fine arts and design
AIU "Arab International University", Syria
Assistant professor of Biodigital Master and PHD program, EsArq - UiC (UniversitatInternacional de Catalunya), Spain