Digital tools as strategy for design workshop1 at AIU

MAG-LAB, “Digital Tools as Strategy for Architectural Design workshop”

"Arab International University – Faculty of Architecture, Damascus, Syria - May 2010"

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:
. Alessio Erioli - Professor and researcher – DAPT – Facoltà di Ingegneria, Univer-sità di Bologna (Bologna – Italia), co-founder and main architect at Co-de-iT

. Aref Maksoud - (MAG LAB - Barcelona –Spain/Damascus - Syria) - Assistant professor in Biodigital Architecture Master and PHD program ESARQ-UIC ”Barcelona-Spain”,

Final presentation:
The workshop was directed to undergraduate students (1st to 3rd year, faculty of Architecture, AIU),
AIU Chairman, Prof. Arch. Muhsen Maksoud attended the event and was impressed with the works accomplished  in just 9 days part time work
At the end of 9 days the students presented the final work of the workshop to an international and local jury.

Guest juries
Arch. Prof. Muhsen Maksoud (AIU – Arab International University - Chairman)
Dr. Prof. Paul Shenyara (AIU dean – Faculty of Architecture)
Dr. Prof. Hala Tuffaha (AIU vice dean – Faculty of Architecture)
Dr. Prof. Abd Al Ghany Maa El Bared (AIU President) – guest member
 
The progress made by the students over the 2 weeks period was quite outstanding.
We all did the last weightlifting together and finished this workshop with excellence, elegance, beauty and performance
More info at:
ditsad.wordpress.com
www.mag-sy.com MAGLAB (Barcelona - Spain , Damascus - Syria)
www.aiu.edu.sy Arab International University
http://issuu.com/mag_lab/docs/ditsad