FLEXIBLE 3D MODELLING
for Design and Prototyping
University wide elective | Technology + Communications Seminar



SIAL Team:
    Jane Burry


Co-ordinator: Jane Burry

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The aim of this course is to give students from diverse disciplines expertise in creating flexible (associative geometric) computer models for design and linking these to physical modelling and prototyping. This will be achieved through skills-based instruction and hands-on project-based learning with an introduction to DIGITAL PROJECT parametric design software. It will serve undergraduates in areas of study including but not exclusive to architecture, design, engineering, jewellery, textiles, new media as well as postgraduates starting study and design practitioners seeking professional development. It introduces an approach to modelling that can be applied in design studio, postgraduate project work and professional practice.

The course is divided into two component parts. In the first, each session will combine a relevant lecture/presentation with a hands-on exercise that demonstrates the main principles involved in associative geometrical modelling. The exercises are conceived progressively to expand participants’ mastery. The second component is dedicated to tutorial and seminar support for individual project-based work shared regularly within the class. There will be opportunities to generate physical prototypes using rapid prototyping and traditional modelling techniques. Projects will be reviewed in class as the principal basis for assessment.


Location: Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory *
Enrolment codes: INTE 2108 (undergraduates), INTE 2107 (postgraduates) INTE 2389 (research postgraduates)



Dates + times: Thursday mornings | 9.00am - 12.00pm first semester 2011
Introduction: Thursday 3rd March

Classes: Thursday Mornings 9.00am - 12.00pm SIAL undergraduate lab:

Building 10, level 11, room 24.

Some classes will also be held in SIAL , building 97 level 3 , on Victoria Street (modelling lab sessions and lectures/presentations) check the schedule for dates.

Reviews may also be scheduled for evenings to welcome visiting critics from practice and industry.

NOTES
*(Building 10, Level 11, Room 24. There is secure entry- please knock until you have 24 hour / 7 day access.)

(images: Gaudí’s Sagrada Família Church + 2004 PARAmetric design course: Tatu Parsinnen, Mark Di Bartolo)