Architecture & Urbanism (DRL)
End of Year Juries, day 1
Time: 10:00:00
Venue: 32 Second Floor Back
Critics confirmed so far:
Marcelo Spina, Sci-Arc
Albert Taylor, AKT
Philippe Block, ETH
Didier Faustino
Brett Steele
The invited jury will review the first phase of the third full year design research agenda called Proto-Design. Proto-Design investigates digital and analogue forms of computation in the pursuit of systemic design applications that are scenario- and time-based. Considering controls systems as open acts of design experimentation, the DRL examines production processes as active agents in the development of architecture.
Behavioural, parametric and generative methodologies of computational design are coupled with physical computing and analogue experiments to create dynamic and reflexive feedback processes. New forms of spatial organisation are explored that are not type or site dependant but examine scenarios that evolve as ecologies and environments that seek adaptive and hyper-specific features. This performance-driven approach seeks to develop novel design proposals concerned with the everyday. The iterative methodologies of the design studio focuses on the investigations of spatial, structural and material organisation, engaging in contemporary discourses on computation and materialisation in the disciplines of architecture and urbanism.
Four parallel research studios, run by Theodore Spyropoulos, Patrik Schumacher, Robert Stuart-Smith and Philipe Morel, explore the possibilities of Proto-Design.
