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FORM MANUFACTURING 2017_18

Building Systems Design @ ICAD-International Course on Architectural Design, University of Florence | AA 2017-18

BIM and Structural Design

NEWS

Assignment#03
ENGAGEMENTS TERMS
SOURCE FOR ASSIGNMENT #02-Speculative Structuralism
List of formal strategies to comunicate a design morphogenesis concept
(source: Pasadena City College)
•Upload Credit 02 Reminder. 
13 dic files upload on dropbox
15 dic board class presentation.
A new release of the Credit #02 Guide is now available on “Assignment Guide” section
•The Grammar of Building Structure and Architectural Language. 
This lecture is now available on LECTURES section.

 

• Credit #01 Reminder.
> 3  Nov. In class Assignment Evaluation > 1 Nov Dropbox Upload (until 6PM)
•  In Assignment Guide  section is now available a  link to access a selection of examples from previous student works
•  In Lectures section is now available the lecture  excerpt on Foundations 

 

•  Students are required to practice «BIM  Families» to understand basic criteria of parametrical computation. For help look at the Tutorials section: 12 The Basic of Families.
SYLLABUS
SCHEDULE
ASSIGNMENT GUIDE

Final assignment guide#03: Understanding how superstructure works

Download (Ass_Superstructure.pdf, 1.94MB)



Final assignment guide#02: No functions building

NEW RELEASE

Download (Ass_Speculative Structuralism_17-18.pdf, 7.11MB)


Weissenhof's Structure Grammar Analysis

Assignment #01 Introductory presentation for site modeling and foundations

BUILDING VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURES FOR REAL.

Check at the end of the document how to create reinforced concrete BIM material and how to compute it

GRADES
LECTURES

Digital Technology and Architectural Manufacturing, G. Ridolfi

Download (DIGITAL TECH AND ARCH MANUFACTURING sml.pdf, 2.15MB)


Assembling and Joining Structures, G. Ridolfi

Download (04.-JOINING-STRUCTURES-.pdf, 6.39MB)

 


Foundations, G. Ridolfi

Download (FOUNDATIONSWEB.pdf, 14.44MB)


The Grammar of Building Structure and Architectural Language, G. Ridolfi

Download (STRUCTURAL_GRIDS_LANGUAGE.pdf, 25.47MB)


CRITIQUES
RESOURCES & EXAMPLES

• Building Virtual Architectures for Real. Students’ examples  from previous years > MAIN REFERENCES FOR ASSIGNMENT #03–Building Virtual Architectures for Real.


• Engagement Terms. List of formal strategies to comunicate a design morphogenesis concept (source: Pasadena City College) > REFERENCE FOR ASSIGNMENT #02–Speculative Structuralism


• Information Management. How to draw architectural buildings for construction. From a slide show lecture hold by prof. G. Ridolfi


• Form Manufacturing and Computational Design. A resource stack on Issuu.com containing articles, booklets, papers and students researches.


Form Manufacturing. A slide show of some examples from  Form Manufacturing class, 2013-14 Master Class, iCAD – International Course on Architectural Design. @ University of Florence, 2015


• From origami to architecture. A video of students’ work from  Form Manufacturing class, 2014-15 Master Class.  iCAD – International Course on Architectural Design @ University of Florence, 2015

EXAMPLES FROM PREVIOUS STUDENTS' WORK
TUTORIALS