"Soft Structures" was a class taught at Wentworth looks at the use of soft modeling to develop structural components with unique aesthetic qualities. Animation was then used to discover ways of varying the components by looking at changes in thickness and surface area. The components were then parametrically arrayed along splines in order to produce lattice like structures.
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This animation course taught at Wentworth focuses on the choreography of different spatial arrangements but animating certain techniques like intersections, carving, and section planes. View full entry
Highlight Real
This was an intro course to architectural representation at Wentworth University through different mediums from hand drafting to 3d modeling and rendering to animations. View full entry
Student: Hannah O'Toole
Final highlight real of my Animated Processes 1.0 class at Wentworth. View full entry
Animated Massings 1.0
Final results from the robotic dab paintings:Team:Austin SamsonLindsay DumontStefan BurnettPeter Comeau View full entry
Robotic Dab Painting
A bit of a throwback to an advanced studio at the Yale School of Architecture I helped teach, lead by Hernan Diaz-Alonso with Ivan Bernal. Here is a brief summery of the course objective: The design ethos brought about by the digital turn triggered some key shifts in architecture over the past... View full entry
Lauren and Michael
Haelee and Jack
Jason
Teaching a class this semester focused on generating and prototyping "end of arm" tools for the department's new 6-Axis Kuka Robotic Arm. Students were given a series of tools (2 finger gripper, hot wire cutters, laser pointers, etc) and were tasked with modeling and 3D printing custom components... View full entry
Using an Ad-Hoc approach to digital computation, new coherency between architectural elements can be discovered. History has shown that certain techniques or processes are capable of solving problems that they were not originally intended to solve. Nicholas De Monchaux has outlined many of these scenarios in his novel "Space Suit". By researching processes of making that are external to typical architecture, designers can generate relationships between existing an new formal qualities.
