Course Details

1. Ability to create architectural designs that satisfy both aesthetic and technical requirements.
2. Comprehension of the methods of investigation and preparation of the brief for a design project.
3. Ability to work with the available software.
4. Adequate knowledge of the connection between mathematics and programming.

Fundamentals and Principles of 3D modelling:  understanding the basics for the creation of architectural 3D models, by the use of CAD.

Fundamentals and Principles of rendering methods: understanding the basics of the available rendering machines that can enhance the presentation value and the visual outcome of a 3D model.

Software as a tool, Scripting, digital construction:  the implementation of machine language and mathematics for the creation of a form, pattern etc. Visualization of mathematical and trigonometrical entities into spatial forms

Parametric design and digital construction: understanding parametric features in an object that will lead to implement the parameter value in the design process.

• Designing for a digital world, Leach Neil, Wiley-Academy, Chichester 2002.
• Hybrid space new forms in digital Architecture, Zellner P., Thames & Hudson 2000.
• Hybrid Space: New Forms in Digital Architecture, Zellner P., Rizzoli International Publications 1999.
• Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, Casey Reas and Ben Fry, August 2007, MIT Press.
• The Grasshopper Primer – Second Edition, Andrew Payne & Rajaa Issa, Liftarchitects 2009.

• Generative Algorithms using Grasshopper, Zubin Khabazi free download in pdf format from: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/tutorials1
• Generative Algorithms, Conceps and Experiments, Weaving, Zubin Khabazi, free download in pdf format from: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/tutorials-1
• Generative Algorithms, Conceps and Experiments, Porous Structures, Zubin Khabazi ,free download in pdf format from: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/tutorials-1
• Essential Mathematics for computational design – Second Edition, Rajaa Issa, Robert McNeel & Associates, free download in pdf format from: http://download.rhino3d.com/en/Rhino/4.0/EssentialMathematicsSecondEdition/

The taught part of the course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.