Digital tools as strategy for design workshop3 at AIU

Digital Tools as Strategies for Architectural Design - Workshop10-15.08.2010
Installing software to your brain
Intro to Parametric Design
"Arab International University – Faculty of Architecture, Damascus, Syria 

Synopsis

The workshop “Digital Tools as strategy for Architectural design4”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 drawing but as a consistent and powerful design strategy.
Ideas, processes, strategies and conditions interacted and intertwined throughout the whole design path, in order to translate information processing into a spatial architectural outcome.
The students, working in groups, created an architectural skin (an enveloping system with structural capacity, able to generate space and mediate Environmental conditions via information processing) based on morphogenetic strategies, conditions and information extracted and translated from Their investigations and experimentations.
Students investigate general issues of the digital world as well as of contemporary architecture.
The main objective was 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.
The Workshop was configured in Lectures and digital tools classes which interweaved with practical work throughout 5 days full time work.
•    Workshop Instructors 
- Prof.Aref Maksoud (MAG LAB - Barcelona–Spain/Damascus - Syria)
Assistant professor in Biodigital Architecture Master and PHD program ESARQ-UIC ”Barcelona-Spain”
Professor - lecturer for 3d year in “architectural composition  - Architecture in Digital Age”

- Prof.Francesco Ducato 
Stardust*Director.
prof.lecturer in different universities in Spain, Italy, Brazil, USA
Artist selected by Robert Wilson to participate on summer   program of the Watermill Center, New York.

Acknowledgment
we would like to acknowledge the following people

. The final jury members:
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)

. The students, for their amazing dedication and the great effort showed throughout the whole five intensive days of the  workshop
The progress made by the students over the 5 days was quite outstanding.
We all did the last weightlifting together and finished this workshop with excellence, elegance, beauty and performance
More info at:
http://issuu.com/mag_lab/docs/parametricdesign4-august-workshop

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