DG4101 Computational Design and Architecture I Syllabus:

DG4101 Computational Design and Architecture I Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES

 To provide understanding of the role of technology and digital media in contemporary architecture.
 To give knowledge about parametric design and generative / algorithmic design and the differences between them through case studies.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION

Investigation of contemporary theories of media and their influence on the perception of space and architecture. Technology and Art, Technology and Architecture, Technology as Rhetoric, Digital Technology and Architecture. Aspects of Digital Architecture – Design and Computation, Difference between Digital Process and Non-Digital Process, Architecture and Cyber Space, Qualities of the new space, Issues of Aesthetics and Authorship of Design, Increased Automation and its influence on Architectural Form and Space.

UNIT II PARAMETRIC DESIGN

Diagrams, Diagrammatic Reasoning, Diagrams and Design Process, Animation and Design, Digital Hybrid Design Protocol, Concept of Emergence – Problematization, variable, constraints application.

UNIT III GENERATIVE AND ALGORITHMIC DESIGN

Delineating design parameter- deconstructing work flows. Fractal Geometry and their properties – Architectural applications, Works of ZviHecker. Shape Grammar – Shapes, rules and Label. Shape Grammar as analytical and synthetic tools, Combining Shape grammar and Genetic algorithm to optimize architectural solutions. Hyper Surface – Introduction to Hyper surface and concepts of Liquid architecture, Cellular Automata and Architectural applications. Genetic algorithms and Design Computation

UNIT IV DIGITAL MEDIA

Interactivity and connectivity to virtual data and digital information. Augmented reality – virtual to production. Digital fabrication, virtual collaboration.

UNIT V CASE STUDIES

Case studies- Study, understanding and analysis of known examples at the national and international levels which demonstrates the contemporary theories of media and their influence on the perception of space & architecture, contemporary design processes and its relation to computation.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES

 An understanding of the effects of contemporary theories of media on contemporary architectural design.
 An understanding of various contemporary design processes and their relation to computation

REFERENCES

1. Marcos Novak, invisible Architecture: An Installation for Greek Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2000
2. Contemporary Techniques in Architecture, Halsted Press, 2002
3. Ali Rahim, Contemporary Process in Architecture, John Wiley & Sons, 2000
4. A. Menges, S. Ahlquist (Eds.), AD Reader: Computational Design Thinking, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, (2011)
5. W. Jabi, Parametric Design for Architecture Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, UK (2013)
6. M. Bernal, J.R. Haymaker, C. Eastman, on the role of computational support for designers in action Des. Stud., 41 (2015)
7. B. Kolarevic (Ed.), Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing, Taylor & Francis, New York (2003)
8. Work of Architecture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Differences MIT press, 1997
9. William J Mitchell, the Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation & Cognition. MIT Press, 1995
10. C. Barrios, Transformations on parametric design models: a case study on the Sagrada Familia columns instances of a parametric model Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures (2005)