Computational Design | Online Workshop | English | North-South Americas
Description:
The workshop will address design processes using parametric design, from elements of nature to be used as inspiration. The design that we observe in nature today represents, for the most part, the evolution of millions of years of systemic and biological relationships, improving the performance of each living being. In 1909, biologist Jakob von Uexküll defined the concept of Umwelt, which is a subjective world of perception of living organisms, animals and people in relation to their environment and the way they self-influence, anticipating the definition of open system, or that is, that we are systems that interact with our environment. Umwelt represents the ultimate reality of the species, a collection of signs that form a representation of the reality of the world for the species. Thus, if the universe of an organism is not compatible with this ultimate reality, there is no permanence. Therefore, it is essential that the available technology could be used in the architectural design processes in order to enable an evolution of the designs to be proposed by the human being in the coming decades, at the risk of being unable to revert the imbalances caused in the production of the built environments in the cities. The workshop will have as a goal the production of spaces that help the distribution of safety equipment such as masks, face shields, alcohol gel and others, as a significant attitude, in view of the tragic moment that we live in this pandemic moment with COVID-19. The proposed methodology begins with the theoretical basis based on Cybersemiotic concepts, notions involving Biomimetics and the development of scripts in Rhino + Grasshopper, in order to produce outcomes like structures and forms appropriate to the established architectural challenge.
Key Words:
Cybersemiotics,Biomimicry,Parametric Design,Biological Performance
Required Skills:
ability to observe elements of nature and elaborate architectural metaphors based on parametric design. basic notions of structural design, Rhinoceros and Grasshopper (beginner).
Required Software:
Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Photoshop
Required Hardware:
compatible with the requested software
Maximum number of participating students:
20
Schedule:
Jun 28 - Jul 2
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Day 1 / Jun 28
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Day 2 / Jun 30
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Day 3 / Jul 2
Instructors:
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Gilfranco Alves UFMS,ProfessorGraduated in Architecture and Urbanism from Federal University of Pelotas UFPEL , RS, Brazil (1994), Post-graduated in Design by the University for Development of the State and the Pantanal Region UNIDERP (2006), Masters in Language Studies by University of Mato Grosso do Sul UFMS(2009) and PhD in the Post-Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism of the IAU - USP (Nomads.USP), São Carlos, Brazil.(http://www.arquitetura.eesc.usp.br/posgrad/index.php) (2014) with collaborative period in Delft University of Technology TU Delft (Hyperbody). He is a researcher and leader of the algo+ritmo research group (@algo.ritmo_)and Professor at Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul UFMS, Brazil. He has experience in Architecture and Urbanism in office since 1995, and as a teacher since 2005, with emphasis on architectural design, acting on the following topics: Digital Design, Communication and Semiotics in Architecture, Cybersemiotics, Second Order Cybernetics, Computer Graphics, Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication and Teaching of Architecture and Urbanism. -
Vinicius Yule UFMS ,StudentAcademic student interested in digital design, biomimethic, cybersemiotic. I'm currently in the fourth year of architecture degree at UFMS, working in a research project that will combine biomimetics and digital design to develop efficient and sustainaible architecture from nature examples, besides that im also in a part time job at Castro Arquitetos which develops parametric digital design. My first contact with parametric design was in the second semester of the first year, in the digital design class which is lected by Gilfranco Alves, and approach Rhino and Grasshopper applied on architecture projects, since then, i've always seen the parametric design as a fundamental tool to develop architecture to the future.