The MAA is a visionary master program with an innovative and open structure, mixing diverse disciplines, shaping professionals capable of producing theoretical & practical solutions towards responsive cities, architecture & technology.
Course: MAA01 23/24 Assembled Architecture Seminar
Assembled Architecture explores the dual geometrical/topological computing nature of spatial systems, from basic iterative logics explored through Grasshopper and the Anemone plug-in, to more sophisticated network-based and topology-based stigmergic strategies, using both standard and bespoke components. This seminar focuses on assembly/growth processes, investigated through iterative algorithmic strategies, and applied to an urban-block size architecture starting from elementary spatial building blocks.
view Syllabus & Faculty
ASSEMBLED ARCHITECTURE
The coming future will force architects to address the issues/necessities of density and the urgency to create more data-informed spatial configurations, such as assemblages, and embedding sets of specific architectural features. Being able to ‘inform’ large-scale systems, taking advantage of modularity, and defining the metrics toevaluate different spatial alternatives is a crucial ability. Custom Assemblage … Read more
Assembled Architecture
The project aimed to explore self-shading selection method to create assemblages with a filtering method to control the growth by direction patterns. The assemblages were then evaluated with a several criterias related with the accessible outdoor areas. Those criteria were then used to shape those outdoor spaces and the units facades that are facing them. … Read more
Assembled Architecture
GROUP 2 ASSEMBLAGE 1 – Components design Component A Component B Component C 2 – Custom assemblage method Component A Component B Component C 3 – Custom evaluation criteria 4 – Building the dataset Component A Component B Component C Assemblage comparison Component A Component B Component C 5 – Assemblage selection 6 – Architectural … Read more
