Co–creation in The Early Design
Dig Des Fab 21

Semi­nar ‚Digi­tal Design and Full Scale Fabri­ca­tion’ (Dig Des Fab) is taught at Univer­sity of Applied Arts in Vienna, Insti­tute of Archi­tec­ture, Depart­ment of Struc­tu­ral Design during Winter Semes­ter 2021/2022.

The semi­nar focu­sed on adop­ting exten­ded reality (XR) tools for colla­bo­ra­tive design of spatial struc­tures without the need of direct inter­ac­tion in CAD soft­ware. A digi­tal–to–physi­cal work­flow was deve­lo­ped and tested with students of the univer­sity. A soft­ware script was distri­bu­ted to all the parti­ci­pants prior to the work­shop in order to maxi­mize time spent on designing the sculp­tures them­sel­ves. A body move­ment was used to design archi­tec­tu­ral objects, thus elimi­na­ting the need for any prior know­ledge of programming or CAD soft­ware. In this scen­a­rio the pre–coded live ratio­na­liz­a­tion feed­back doubled as a real-time consul­ta­tion tool for struc­tu­ral and digi­tal fabri­ca­tion specia­lists, allowing students to perform infor­med design decisi­ons in a seam­less way without the need to switch in between design stage and analy­sis / ratio­na­liz­a­tion stage.