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Experimentarium
FA-XPR-NEAcad. year: 2022/2023
Testing the digital and speculative strategies on selected topics. Widening of the repertoire of architectural approaches and digital skills. A thorough analysis of topics from various natural scientific domains will be applied and presented from architectural point of view. Consequently, an architectural strategy for interpretation and problem articulation will be selected. It is possible to consider topics from biology, sociology, music, and fine art, for example, the growth of cells, music structures etc. Thanks to these strategies, it will be possible to understand the architectural phenomena and to develop strategic and methodologic thinking.
In the study programmes “Architecture and Urban Design” the course is part of the courses on tools.
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Course curriculum
- Introduction to the course, demonstration of possible interpretations and simulation models of natural phenomena
- Introduction to the analysis of problems, abstraction, syntax and decoding
- Interpretation, introduction to diagrammatic thinking, diagram
- Philosophical environment in design, problems of knowing
- Integration of analytical model and philosophical construct
- Platforms of thinking and their interpretation in simulation and generative models
- Building of digital models and simulations
- Complex methods of optimization, genetic algorithms, and machine learning
- Visualization of data and their further interpretation
- Application of digital model on own project
- Developing the possibilities of optimization and adaptation of own project
- Application of optimization using genetic algorithms in own project and data visualization
- Final presentation of seminar works
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Upon the agreement with the teacher, the absences in the classroom can be compensated via online participation.
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Basic literature
DE LANDA, Manuel. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York: Zone books, 1997. ISBN 978-0942299328. (EN)
EISENMAN, Peter. Eisenman Inside Out. Selected Writings, 1963-1988. New Haven: Yale Univeristy press, 2004. ISBN 978-0300090086. (EN)
KWINTER, Sanford. Far from Equilibrium. Barcelona: Actar, 2008. ISBN 978-8496540644. (EN)
Rhinoceros (webpage). Download Essential Mathematics for Computational Design (4th Edition). URL: https://www.rhino3d.com/download/Rhino/4.0/EssentialMathematics. (EN)
SCHUMACHER, Patrik. Autopoesis of Architecture, Volume I. London: Wiley, 2011. ISBN 978-0470772980. (EN)
SCHUMACHER, Patrik. Autopoesis of Architecture, Volume II. London: Wiley, 2012. ISBN 978-0470666166. (EN)
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