[Environmental Design Lab ]

location: Florence – ITALY 2016/2017
organization: ICAD–International Course On Architectural Design -University of Florence
category: A.A. 2016/2017 – Second Level Degree Courses / First Year_fall semester
professor: Giuseppe Ridolfi
role: assistant _ parametric architecture expert

From the Official Course :
[https://www.architettura.unifi.it/BUILDING SYSTEMS DESIGN]:

CONTENTS

Form Manufacturing is mainly focused on BIM: the most well-known acronym of digital technologies in AEC. A professional procedure yet required in many countries. A new modus operandi catching the attention of other growing services in construction How it works, and how we can work with it are the questions the course is addressing focusing on design conception, and management. Design as a research practice based on digital crafting, physical testing and prototyping are also covered

EXTENDED PROGRAM

With «Environmental Design» (second year), this course represents the disciplinary contribution of «Technology of Architecture» to the Master on Architectural Design. Both are focused on architectural project and computational parametric design embedding the decisional process, communication and designing as well: processes dealing with willness and facts, with “un-materiality” formalized, computed and extracted through digital technologies

The philosophy of the two classes is to jump over the software generated free-forms, or the prevalent use of design technology for calculation, visualization, and rendering.
The philosophy is to persue a coherent and interoperable process and to promote a research attitude based on digital materiality.

In this semester, the «Building Systems Design» class is focused on two different topics:
1) the production of the Building Information Model for a medium small architecture;
2) the fabrication of a Conceptual prototype for an architectural building system.