4 173 Design Fabrication Workshop Design Fabrication Systems
4. 173 Design Fabrication Workshop Design Fabrication Systems in Studio & Practice Prof. Larry Sass Department of Architecture and Planning MIT
what is design research? 1) Develop new ideas and topics in design 2) We study a problem in detail 3) Opportunity to present, test ideas and evaluate 4) We learn by experience
what are we going to study? Systems in Design Development of an algorithmic approach to Design Complex Geometries in Design and Construction
why are design systems important Working with Computational & Mechanical Devices Take advantage of Generative Systems in Computation The first step is to design a system
Reconstructing Palladio (1) Overview & History (2) Construction Rules (3) Modeled Examples
(1) Project Overview
Palladio Project @ MIT 1991 – Palladio Virtual Museum (Bill Mitchell & Howard Burns) 1995 – Website (Dan Tsai) 1997 - 2004 – Printing Villa Models (Larry Sass)
Palladio was a stone mason Palladio Designed over 30 villas throughout the Veneto - 1535 – 1570 Drawings in the Four Books were written after the buildings were constructed
Four Books of Architecture The first book contained the rules Second Book contained drawings of the villas
Computational Motivation? Relationship between Design and Computational Systems Create new villas (Unbuilt) from rules outlined in this paper To prove or disprove rule based approaches in design
Background – Palladio, Andrea 1570 The Four Books of Architecture Wittkower , Rudolph 1949 Architecture in the age of humanism Burns, Howard 1975 Portico and the Farmyard Stiny, G. , WJ. Mitchell 1978 The Palladian Grammar Carpo, Mario 2001 Architecture in the Age of Printing
Project Problems Design Incomplete Drawings – Palladio Relationship of the Built to the Unbuilt Model Generation Time Consuming Evaluation Fabrication Voids Physical Size of Models
Claim: Any villa model can be generated computationally from a floor plan and construction rules Project Goal Build 24 Villa Models
Claim: Any villa model can be generated computationally from a floor plan and construction rules Project Goal Build 24 Villa Models Digital Fabrication
Claim: Any villa model can be generated computationally from a floor plan and construction rules Project Goal Villa Model Build 24 Villa Models Define Plan Drawing Digital Fabrication Create a Shape Grammar of Construction Rules (Construction)
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