Course Schedule 2024

Room location:

B127-H014 B117-H024 Session times 8:00 - 12:00 on Tuesdays

A1 How to Grow a Cup

Due 15th September

W1 Agile Prototyping |

• Future / Problems / Buildings
• Instant Buildings?
• Interdisciplinary Challenge
• Previously in Agile …

W2 Biologically Inspired Design |

• Biology
• Torben Lenau Lecture (DTU Construct) [onsite]
• Biomimetics / Biomimetic Architecture
• Skylab Digital lab introduction talk [onsite]
• Interdisciplinary solutions? _________

  A2 Building System Needs

  Due 29th September

W3 Building System Needs |

• Meta Disciplinary
• From cups to buildings via plants
• Amanda Rasmussen Lecture (Univeristy of Nottingham) [online]
• Building Design Grid
• Design Requirements
• Building System functions

W4 Building System Features |

• Reverse Engineering Buildings
• Building System features
• Parametric Design
• Computational Design _________

  A3 Building System Growth

  Due 20th October

W5 Building System Growth |

• Meta Disciplinary systems
• Meta Disciplinary elements

W6 Common System Growth Specification |

• Combine different stages of systems _________

  A4 How to Grow a Building

  Due 1st December

In this assignment you further explore the idea of growing buildings as a

• game
• parametric design system or
• manual for growing buildings

W7 Design Genes |

• Building Environment
• Building Phenotype
• Building Genotype

W8 Growing as Building |

• Petra Gruber Lecture (Angewandtem, Austria) [online]

W9 Design Pasts |

• Laila Zwisler Lecture (DTU Physics) [onsite]
• Building System History as Evolution
• Roman / Greek and Early 20thC Building Systems

W10 Futures |

• Building Type Future Trajectories
• Building System Future Trajectories

W11 Peer Feedback |

• Peer feedback in focus groups

W12 Project |

• Tutorials and support

W13 Presentation |

• Final Presentation. _________

  A5 Reflect

  Due 09th December