Research's IaaC - Students Research -

With the advent of the information society, architecture is no longer built but manufactured. The techniques of digital production have put the architect back at the centre of the construction process because the information generated in the design process is literally used to manufacture the various parts of a building. Digital technology has thus gone beyond the representation stage to take its place precisely in the production phase of architecture. In the light of this, parametric design makes it possible to approach the architecture project on everything from the territorial scale to the urban design of the building, in an open fashion, integrating algorithms and dynamic formulations in the project-design process itself.
With the development of new software, scripting techniques can now be integrated into architectural design, transforming the old plastic principles by the insertion of mathematical logics into the project.
In order to experiment with these project-design processes, digitally control machines are used to produce scale models of the designs and prototypes of projects at 1:1 scale. The IaaC has a workshop for the production of full-scale prototypes equipped with digital fabrication machines, including a 320 x 120 cm CNC cutter, a laser machine, a 3d printer, a 3d scanner and several electronic equipment.

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To reduce the footprint of the city it is important to reduce sprawl by building up instead of out, as well as reducing automobile infrastructure, by creating more dynamic systems for pedestrians and bicycles. Reducing infrastructure can also be done by creating an efficient central nucleus of public spaces that can be used by the entire community. A Hierarchy of multi dimensional spaces: conference rooms with fine arts, a public library with private cafe, gymnasiums for the local school and business as well. Endless combinations of uses to create spaces that can be used by the entire community for any need. The basic idea of mixing uses in terms of plan as well as vertically(building up) and the idea off adding spaces according to the needs at a specific moment, lead up to the our first attempt to design a building unit. This unit will start forming from a central core, where spaces of different uses will be added. This core will be the source of energy for each building (wind turbines). In order to reduce its footprint, our task will be to design the city for minimum infrastructure and energy consumption.

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While I was doing it was interesting to find the consideration of Andres Perea in diverse scales, although the scales does not exactly match to ours. Overall landscape of the city and the sequence that was being proposed through out the project was very clear and well illustrated. To conserve the Korean rice field was brillient in the sense the FTA was one of the main issues in Korea last year. Many people worry that FTA would import cheap crops which will pressure the farming industry. Also, although it is not illustrated in the jpg file but the distribution of land, use of land and transportation would well fit with the concept of Korean government’s equi-poise developement policy. I just wanted to write about his project in a Korean perspective; Others could be found in discussion of the studio. You can fin more details in the full pdf file attatched.

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A project which took the assumption that “no-place” is a local quality of Dubai and wondered about what sustainability means in terms of prosumers ended up as a strategy for reshaping existing ubran sprawls (no-places around the world) into sustainable, distributed networks.

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There are only a few instances that we are fortunate enough to have people that teach us the most difficult thing to teach: to love what we do. The week we spent at the studio was an incredible experience, where Michel knew each of our names, each of our projects, and help us dream about architecture much more and much better. I just added Michel Rojkind to the list of one of the most influential professors I ever had.

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