Rede­fi­ning Arche­ty­pi­cal Geome­try
Dig Des Fab 20

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 2020/2021.

During this semi­nar new digi­tal design methods and concep­tual frame­work of early-design stage ratio­na­liz­a­tion were explo­red. Using tecto­nic shape of a column as a archi­tec­tu­ral arche­type for a case study, students firstly deve­lo­ped spatial struc­tures using the Karamba plugin. These struc­tures were ratio­na­li­zed into voxel geome­try using topo­lo­gi­cal opti­miz­a­tion. A soft­ware tool for XR (Exten­ded Reality) visua­liz­a­tion Folo­gram was subse­quently used to adapt the geome­try in a sub-area and to analyze it stati­­­­­­­­­­cally and construc­­­­­­­­­­tively. The opti­mi­zed geome­try was prin­ted and fired in a cera­mic 3D prin­ter (colla­bo­ra­tion Kera­mik­stu­dio Die Angewandte).

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Andrei Gheorghe, Jan Kováříček, Students