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| Project Title | creative art workshop 2 |
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| Project Description | Workshop instructors : - Prof.Aref Maksoud (MAG LAB - Barcelona –Spain/Damascus - Syria) Assistant professor in Biodigital Architecture Master and PHD program ESARQ-UIC”Barcelona-Spain” Professor - lecturer for 3d year in “architectural composition - Architecture in Dgital Age” - Prof.Francesco Ducato ( Stardust* - Spain, Italy, Brazil, USA) Stardust*Director. PhD on New Instruments of Architecture in the ETSAB (Technical Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona, Spain). Artist selected by Robert Wilson to participate on summer program of the Watermill Center, New York. Synopsis This new workshop organized by MAG LAB in collaboration with AIU, The workshop “Digital Architectural Tools as strategy for design” is an exploration about different ways to generate architectural outcomes through the translation of information-based and information-driven morphogenetic processes via digital tools. The aim of this workshop is to introduce the students to a digitally driven approach to architecture and let them begin an exploration of the potential, range and capacity of this broad world: digital tools are not just intended for drawing but as a consistent and powerful design strategy. |
| Project Tools/Methodology | The workshop fosters the immediate application and exploration (through trial and error, improvisation and adaption)of the insights given during the lectures. The lectures sequence itself was a path through various aspects of the creative process, in gradient that encompasses theoretical premises, procedural methods, material application and evaluation of achievements. As the workshop unfolds the density of lecture hours diminishes gradually shifting towards full, tutorized , work. The final task was design for a pavilion, Canopy or Installation in a site (choice was up to each group, via previous feasibility judgment by the professors) inside the AIU. The work went by trial and errors from the fast production of concepts, through the refinement of a final proposal in the form of a small scale model . Each phase of the workshop was followed by a pin-up: ideas circulation and sharing creates a more creative environment, enforces and speed up learning; for these reasons pin-ups were collective student and could take advantage of everyone’s discussion and proposals. After the initial convergence on a proposal, projects were refined introducing deeper site negotiation and material logics towards the construction of a large scale model |
| Project Country | Syrian Arab Republic |