Geometric Modelation for Design
Curricular Unit, type Conpulsory
UT Lisbon, Faculty of Architecture
Curricular Programme
Contact hours:
42 Lectures-Practical Hours
Estimated Workload:
100 Hours
Credits:
3,0 ECTS Credits
Objectives:
Develop sensitivity and the construction of harmonious forms and proportional applied to the Urbanism, Architecture and the Design; – Provide students with the knowledge inherent in the structure of forms and spaces, understood as forms of the operative conceptual process. – Provide the students with comprehensive and analytical theory, organized under the formal and conceptual point of view that maximizes and optimizes the projectual intervention.
Programme:
I. Introduction of the constructions of paper forms – Principles of the construction of shapes in paper; – Knowledge of theoretical concepts in the construction of paper shapes and its aplication in architecture and design.
II. Application of sustainable materials, like: – Paper and similar materials; – Cane and Bamboo; – Cork; – Sisal, etc..;
III. Morphogenesis – Identification of intrinsec geometries based on sustainable materials; – Exploration morphological reasoning in the development of three-dimensional models;
IV. Prototyping – Principles and techniques of fast prototyping; – three-dimensional models Transformation into prototyping models; – Developing Models from fast prototyping
Main Bibliography:
CHATANI, Masahiro, (1984) – Origamic Architecture, Ondorisha Publishers, Lda. Tokio;
CHATANI, Masahiro (1989) – Japanische dreidimensionale Faltkarten, Ondorisha Publishers, Lda. Tokio;
VYZOVITI, Sofhia (2006) – Folding Architecture, Spacial Structural and Organizational Diagrams, BIS Publiishers, Amsterdam; Other Bibliography
Assessment:
Continuous assessment, to be achieved through: – Exercises for the specific items covered in class – Exercise of end based on a theme to define annually – Development of a Scale Model from the background work – Presentation of all exercises under the form of an organized portfolio. – Attendance and participation (2) + specific exercises (10) + Final Exercise with Scale Model (8).