Design the structure of a 10 story building of a maximal 10x15m footprint, composed of clay walls and flax-fibre reinforced slabs. The outcome of the course is a set of 2 renders, an interior view and an exterior view.
In the context of the Living Prototypes project, IAAC and ITKE have been collaborating and see a clear potential in the constructive assemblies of earth 3d printed walls and fibre reinforced slabs for architectural applications. IAAC will receive a team of 3 architects and students from Stuttgart who will run the workshop together with IAAC’s faculty.
The methodology, based on 3dPA’s performative design approach, will lead to the design conditions and to generating results. In a bottom up approach, we will start by drawing a domain – or bounding box -, as a grid, in which we will insert arrows for points of support, polylines for slabs, planes for 3d printed walls.
Learning Objectives
At course completion the student will:
- learn principles of performative design
- work with the integration of another materiality/constructive system
- model all the walls of a small vertical building
- learn to collaborate with a team of consultants
Image Credits: LivMatS Pavilion, icd / itke.
