Eco-Parametric Structures - Studio Mamou-Mani

Participants will need to keep a portfolio and produce videos of their work towards the final presentation. The work will be divided into the following parts:

1. Research into timber structures, struts and nodes
2. Research into geometrical 2d and 3d lattices, model making
3. Implementing first research into a parametric model
4. Informing models with reality
5. Creating physical and digital matrices of parametric models
6. Implementing learnings from matrix to suggested different spatial applications
7. Final presentations
   
   

With and Beside Measure: Parametric Symmetry

I often wonder if our lack of understanding of the symmetry groups often led us to uninspiring grids or uncontrolled complexity. In this workshop, we will start with simplicity and build up complexity together.

We will look at the granular and apply symmetry to create crystalline and biophilic architectural systems. From circles, splines, and vectors, we will use reflection, rotations, rotoreflection, and double rotation. From the struts to the plane and the node, we will explore lattice-like structures and their relationship to external and internal parameters. We will let them grow and test them both digitally and physically with simple models, building the complexity from the bottom-up.   We will be using Mirrorlab, Rhino 7, and Grasshopper to create matrices of options. We will document our complexity like gardeners and display all possibilities.

This is an applied workshop, we will learn through involvement, so expect homework! You will work in groups of 5 to distribute the tasks and produce a more complete project.