Option Explicit
Scripting Design Experiments
Generative computational design seamlessly bridges the Virtual - architectural representation - and the Physical - architectural production - with unprecedented accuracy. While recent advances in coding and scripting empower architects to write their own 3D software, digital fabrication feeds these designs to machines and robots. In lieu of a conventional approach to design techniques, Option Explicit: Scripting Design Experiments relates form-generating processes through a series of written codes to virtual models and physical objects. In the setting of the 272 graphic seminar parametric design and digital fabrication mutually reinforce each other; the first opening up a field of potentials, the second narrowing down possible solutions by real world constraints. By means numeric evaluation, vector computation and computer controlled fabrication students become editors of parameters, control complex geometries and, ultimately, work towards a non-standard understanding of design.
Option Explicit: Symposium & Vernissage
Please join us for a symposium on "Scripting and Related Forms of Procedural Design" on Monday March 10 at 5:00 pm at the Knowlton School of Architecture followed by a vernissage of scripted design experiments at 6:30 pm. Speakers:
Steve Turk: "Automatic Rothko and White Out / Blind Vision: Two Projects on the Scripting of Gaming Space"
Lydia Kallipoliti: "Drips and Molds; Procedural Material Experiments"
John McMorrough: "Architecture or Evolution: The Recent (and not so Recent) Speciation of the Discipline"
All events will take place in the main space at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University. The exhibition is kindly sponsored by Building Panels International Toledo, Masonite Int. USA, and the Knowlton School of Architecture. The symposium and exhibition is open to the public.
Organized and designed by Aurel von Richthofen, KARV.