DIA_Compendium_SS15 Jun. 2015 | Page 10

CAD logic III Intro to Digital Fabrication Methods Tutor: Karim Soliman “Architecture continually informs and is informed by its modes of representation and construction, perhaps never more so than now, when digital media and emerging technologies are rapidly expanding what we conceive to be formally, spatially and materially possible. Digital fabrication, in particular, has spurred a design revolution, yielding a wealth of architecture invention and innovation”. C „Lisa Iwamoto - Book ‚Digital Fabrications, Architectural & Material Techniques‘“ How Designs use digital fabrication and material techniques to calibrate between virtual model and physical artifact is the subject of this course. This semester, we will explore innovative fabrication techniques in architecture, employing digital tools and technologies such as: sectioning, tessellating, folding, contouring and forming. We will research each of these methods and find the projects that have been fabricated by these methods. We will then work in groups on projects starting from designing and modeling up until the fabrication process. We will use rhino + grasshopper to create these projects digitally and prepare it for fabrication. COMPULSORY COURSES | summer semester 2015