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Design Computing and Digital Fabrication
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Spring 2010
This course will focus on designing and constructing algorithms, in both analogue and digital forms, to explore potential design solutions. Students will learn to use scripting as a tool: for solving specific problems, and for generating un/predictable results. Laser cutting and 3d printing will be the primary prototyping tools used for translating digital design information into physical models. Theoretical and pragmatic approaches will be interwoven throughout the course. Rhino will serve as the primary platform for free-form modeling, parametric modeling, scripting, and preparing fabrication geometry.
Instructor: Matt Trimble
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
Spring 2010
This course will focus on designing and constructing algorithms, in both analogue and digital forms, to explore potential design solutions. Students will learn to use scripting as a tool: for solving specific problems, and for generating un/predictable results. Laser cutting and 3d printing will be the primary prototyping tools used for translating digital design information into physical models. Theoretical and pragmatic approaches will be interwoven throughout the course. Rhino will serve as the primary platform for free-form modeling, parametric modeling, scripting, and preparing fabrication geometry.
Instructor: Matt Trimble
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Sponsors
Z Corporation
Epilog Laser
Au Bon Pain
Radlab, Inc
This project is very animated and I believe that it would be quite enjoyable to interact with. The lower metal framework seems to playfully guide a passerby over to the other side of the valley with these triangular arrow-like forms. Also it is clear that during the construction process you thought about stability and the overall structure of the piece, because you have added a tensile structure off of your two primary support curves. Overall I believe your design is quite successful and I enjoyed the rendering you have created tying the structure in with its landscape.
ReplyDeleteThe bridge is visually compelling and reminds me of a jungle-jim. The designer has created a path to follow in the sky hanging and swinging from bar to bar. This movement is different from the flow and movement of the path on the ground.
ReplyDeleteThe uniqueness of the project in my opinion is the special relating between the ground and the sky. The tubular pyramidal structures create a view upward towards the sky and your path might be directed by the angularity of the triangular patterns.
The project is architecturally sound, and appears to contain enough structural elements to span the distance of the valley. The structure appears to blend and rise and fall from the gray platforms creating a continuous element with the ground.
The bridge is visually compelling and reminds me of a jungle-jim. The designer has created a path to follow in the sky hanging and swinging from bar to bar. This movement is different from the flow and movement of the path on the ground.
ReplyDeleteThe uniqueness of the project in my opinion is the special relating between the ground and the sky. The tubular pyramidal structures create a view upward towards the sky and your path might be directed by the angularity of the triangular patterns.
The project is architecturally sound, and appears to contain enough structural elements to span the distance of the valley. The structure appears to blend and rise and fall from the gray platforms creating a continuous element with the ground.