Logic to Artefact
Module Code UBLLW1-15-M
Faculty Built And Natural Environment
Level M
Module Leader Merate Barakat
Tutors Yahya Lavaf-Pour, Eduardo Costa
The module is designed for complete novices in computational design platforms as one of 2 Bootcamp-based modules. Logic to Artefact is both an introduction and revision of computational design fundamentals. The Bootcamp is a fast-paced module assessed with a primer brief of a building systems scale exploration. The module focuses on computation for fabrication to help students use digital fabrication techniques and develop intelligent systems at the assembly detail scale. The module is designed to be a standalone module for MArch elective courses.
A series of fast-paced lab-based tutorials introducing computational methods and cutting-edge computational tools ramp up the cohort's knowledge foundation. Tracking these technical learnings' understanding will be evaluated as a response to a primer brief.
In tandem, the students will be introduced to literature underpinning form grammar and form-finding as part of the critical thinking learning thread woven throughout the programme. The students become familiar with how historical form-finding analogue methods and pattern design language has been systematically interpreted in computation design.
The tuition targets computational microscale design methods, such as interior architecture, building systems, and architectural scale interventions. Microscale design abstractions generally focus on material testing, system validation, and digital fabrication methodologies inspired by natural and biological systems. Rapid prototyping abstractions would target modelling large-scale digital craft and smart material design.
