ICAD-ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN 2023-24
NEWS
02 May – Class room 205 ST
As scheduled the second of May there is class… but if most of you are planning to extend the holiday PLEASE let me know in a way I don’t waste my time. Thank you. Write me to confirm or not your presence at giuseppe.ridolfi@unifi.it.
Following your request CLASS IS DELETED !
26 June – Files Upload for the final exams
Students are required to upload their finals files including: – booklet, high res final renders, and if available final movie or photos of the building maquette
27 June Final Exam 9:00 Santa Teresa Room 205
Evaluation and critics of the final work. Students are required to bring all the materials printed out.
FROM COMPUTATIONAL VISIONING TO 3D MODELING FOR SURVIVING ARCHITECTURES
The theme of the course derives from its teaching philosophy (see syllabus) oriented towards the use of digital technologies applied to architectural design in the Post-environmental condition. Here, with the term ‘surviving’ architectures, we mean paradigmatic artifacts of resistance and coexistence to the environmental disaster now underway. The site of intervention is the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a collection of marine plastic debris in the North Pacific Ocean, as an exemplary area of the Post-environmental condition.
The course is divided into two teaching units: the first, dedicated to the figuration of scenarios and architectures through the use of speculative fabulation and Artificial Intelligence capable of acting as experiential objects for a critical reflection beyond the dualism man/environment and techne/natures; the second, aimed at translating two-dimensional visions into three-dimensional objects through the use of state-of-the-art computational tools and techniques with the aim of verifying the possible applications of these new computational technologies in the architectural field. We can call this practice Reverse Designing.
SYLLABUS
SCHEDULE
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
ASSIGNMENTS
TEXTBOOKS
• Textbooks. A selection of the main founding resources for Environmental Design class
LECTURES
RESOURCES
•Videolectures (2020). A collection of prof. Giuseppe Ridolfi’s video-recorded lectures form 2020 iCAD class. ( !!! A sensible time lag in starting the video is normal)
•Climate Consultant. Free, easy-to-use, graphic-based computer program that displays climate data in dozens of ways useful to architects, builders, contractors, and homeowners, including temperatures, humidity, wind velocity, sky cover, and solar radiation in both 2-D and 3-D graphics for every hour of the year in either Metric or Imperial units. Climate Consultant 6.0 also plots sun dials and sun shading charts overlaid with the hours when solar heating is needed or when shading is required. The psychrometric chart analysis shows the most appropriate passive design strategies in each climate, while the new wind wheel integrates wind velocity and direction data with concurrent temperatures and humidities and can be animated hourly, daily, or monthly.atches to analyze climate data, sun geometry, winds and human comfort
•How to install LadyBug & HoneyBee. List of links addressing guides and video tutorials explaining how to install LadyBug and Honeybee libraries on Grasshopper
•Environmental design Resources. Examples, references and Grasshopper patches to analyze climate, human comfort, and to run mass energy simulation and daylight.
•Daylight Simulation with HoneyBee. Patches and links to run daylight simulation
•Assignment Examples Lab Ambientale 2017-18. Students’ examples about Climate report, Place inventory, Space Program, and Environmental Mass Optioneering
•Assignment Examples Environmental Design 2016-17 Environmental201 Students’ examples about Weather report, Site Examples, Demolition & Excavation, Foundation
• Other publications. Resources collected in «Smart & Green for Responsive Architecture» Issue stack.
• Pinterest. Pins on different matter organized in Pinterest
• Previous students’ works. A slide show of some examples.
GRADES
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