Bangalore Workshop: B M Sreenivasaiah College of Engineering

Friday 2 – Sunday 11 September 2011

The intention of the AA Bangalore Visiting School is to look beyond Computer Aided Design (CAD) as simple design automation to CAD as enabling architectural creativity whilst still responding to complex spatial and material performance constraints. In keeping with this spirit, the AA School of Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects Computation and Design group (ZHA|CODE), Autodesk Inc and Department of Architecture, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore will renew their collaboration to bring the second iteration of their ten-day workshop and one-day symposium to Bangalore. The workshop will explore the relations between contemporary design techniques, creative expression, software technology and its manifestation within India's emergent economy and ancient traditions of building. It also seeks to use production-proven design methods and software platforms in a judicious mix with innovative research.

The workshop will centre around two main foci - exploration and streamlining of a multi-stage process of concept to physical manifestation and synthesis of advanced computational design research with constraints of an emergent labour intensive economy. The workshop will continue its agenda of exploring the following: physics-based design methods, integration of form and structure, computational methods of optimisation for fabrication, and adaptation to local means, methods and craft.

The aim is to provide the participants with a conceptual framework for advanced digital methods within collaborative architectural design. The workshop will involve experts from institutions such as Zaha Hadid Architects, London, AA School of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles and local partners including BMS college, Bangalore. The workshop will tap into the expertise of Autodesk, who are on-board as software-development/training collaborators.

Applications

The deadline for applications is 5 August 2011.

Fees

The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £650 per participant, which includes a £50 Visiting Student Membership. Fees do not include flights or accommodation.