Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: REPOSITIONING THE SEAM (TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR)

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The class will explore through the use of surface modeling software and CAD modeling tools how various techniques of articulating form, in relation to programmatic performance, affects, the visual, formal and spatial organization of the places we inhabit. With the use of surface modeling programs CAD drafting tools, a heavy emphasis will be placed on articulating the work through graphic techniques before being applied to physical models. The class will be run in small groups of 2-3 people. The initial weeks of the class will be spent looking to precedents which explore various techniques from the precedents on a single space or series of space. Each team will then focus these various techniques from the precedents on a single space or series of space. With each group focusing on the same space, each with a separate emphasis, a juxtaposition of results will occur allowing for a comparison that looks to implications on the visual, performative, and organizational systems.