DIGITAL MOCKUPS



SIAL Team:
    Mark Burry
    Andrew Maher
    Jane Burry
    Grant Dunlop
    Gregory More



SIAL-RMIT/MIT/Gehry Partners Architects, LLP Collaborative Studio 2002

In the first semester of 2002 a studio has been jointly run between with the School of Architecture at MIT and with the architectural practice of Gehry Partners Architects, LLP, both in the U.S.A., and the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) here at RMIT. The studio was structured as a collaborative venture exploring the potential for both remote collaboration and the application of advanced computer modelling techniques (parametric design/associative geometry) within a design and design development context. The studio was based upon the development of a 'reading room' developed through parametric design approaches. The work was developed simultaneously at all three locations, and through a shared online working environment accessible to all project participants. Collaboration took place through "parametric re-use", where teams swapped earlier designs and continued to develop the parametrically defined designs, with the encoded "solution spaces" of these designs could be explored or refined by project members. The studio will span the entire architectural design production process, from initial representation, the development of 'variable models' through to the fabrication of physical and virtual prototypes and assemblies.

School of Architecture, MIT:
Larry Sass & William J. Mitchell (Dean)

Gehry Partners Architects
Jim Glymph (Partner in Charge)
Dennis Sheldon
Cristiano Ceccato
Reg Prentice

SIAL team:
Mark Burry
Jane Burry
Grant Dunlop
Andrew Maher
Gregory More